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• Spitzer and Cuomo Make Merry at Rangel's Party

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Politics, Andrew Cuomo, Charles Schumer, Chevy Chase, Eliot Spitzer, Magic Johnson, Michael Bloomberg

  ( and long before Chuck Schumer arrived), Chevy Chase, Magic Johnson and dozens of other local elected officials. Bloomberg told attendees that those who think Rangel is the best thing the best thing since slice bread are correct, but barely, since Rangel was born soon after sliced bread was invented. Bloomberg also said that he was the

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• Schumer Defends Spitzer, Hank Morris

  Published: August 29, 2007, 5:37 pm

  Tags: Politics, Alberto Gonzales, Charles Schumer, Eliot Spitzer, Hank Morris

  Schumer defended Eliot Spitzer and said everyone should move forward and "point to the future." Someone at New York 1 News sent over a clip of the yet-to-be-aired interview with Schumer. In it, Schumer said: I find him to be hands on, I find him to be smart. People make mistakes. No question about it. What his administration did,

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• Silver on the Spitzer-Gonzales Analogy

  Published: August 30, 2007, 10:29 am

  Tags: Politics, Alberto Gonzales, Charles Schumer, Eliot Spitzer, Sheldon Silver

  General. Yesterday, Chuck Schumer tried turning around that analogy, saying people have begun to ease up on Gonzales now that he resigned his job as the U.S. Attorney General, and that people should do likewise when it comes to Spitzer. At a community meeting in Manhattan last night, I asked Sheldon Silver if comparing Spitzer and Gonzales was

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• Senators Want Taxpayers to Bail Out Mortgage Problems

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:46 pm

  Tags: Political Opinion, Prime, Mortgages, Sinking, Dodd, Mortgage, Christopher, Charles, Schumer

  Dodd and Charles Schumer want the White House to take action in regards to the sinking sub-prime mortgage market. Sub-prime mortgages are ones that people who do not qualify for regular mortgages get. These mortgages are risky (as we are seeing now) and in some cases they involve... Visit Big Dog's Weblog for the rest of the

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• Schumer Floor Speech Slandering U.S. Troops Ignored by Old Media

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:05 am

  Tags: Iraq War, Charles Schumer, Investors Business Daily, Men Amp 039 S News Daily, New York Times, Washington Post

  Specifically, New York's Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the Senate last week ascribing the turnaround in the Anbar province in Iraq to the locals, and discrediting the notion that American troops could have had anything to do with it. Here is the relevant portion of Armchair General Schumer's speech you will hear at the

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• Schumer sends forensic funds to Suffolk

  Published: September 13, 2007, 3:22 pm

  Tags: Charles Schumer, Crime, Science

  Thankfully New York Sen. Charles Schumer ust announced that $203,350 has been awarded to Suffolk County by the U.S. Department of Justice. The money, which comes from the federal department’s Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction program, will be used to help the county analyze various samples from criminal cases. From the statement:

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• Hybrid vans, courtesy of Chuck and Hillary

  Published: September 25, 2007, 2:35 pm

  Tags: Charles Schumer, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hybrid, Seniors

  B. Today, New York Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the U.S. Department of Transportation will split a little more than $1 million in Federal Transit Administration funds between the towns of North Hempstead and Brookhaven. The money will be used to buy hybrid buses and vans, equipped with handicapped access, to be

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• Schieffer is ill, so here’s Tucker Carlson

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Charles Schumer, Long Island Association

  first, here’s Sen. Charles Schumer for a quick federal update. It has been a good few months in Washington concerning Long Island. They’ve secured heavy funding for Brookhaven National Lab. The Feds supplied money to build the new Lightsource and the relativistic heavy ion collider. (Does he know it has already been built?) He says

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• Also on Schumer’s list, helicopter noise

  Published: October 1, 2007, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Charles Schumer, East End, Problems, Travel

  that’s not all. Sen. Charles Schumer has had it up to here (just picture Schumer holding a flattened palm to his nose) with all of the helicopter noise on Long Island. There were apparently a record number of noise complaints filed by Long Islanders this year because of the noise generated by passengers taking helicopters to the East End.

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• Schumer sides with you against telemarketers

  Published: October 1, 2007, 10:12 am

  Tags: Charles Schumer, Advertising, Telemarketing

  according to New York Sen. Charles Schumer, you may soon fall off of the list, as the registry is up for renewal. The current do-not-call period is 5 years. And what makes this particularly annoying is you won’t know when your name falls off of the list. Schumer, as a result, is pushing legislation that would keep the registry from

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• Citing Health, GOP's Domenici Says He'll Retire From Senate

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Citing, Health, Gop S, Domenici, Says, He Ll, Retire, From, Senate, Pete Domenici, New Mexico, Albuquerque, Bill Richardson Politician, Charles Schumer, Heather Wilson, Mitch Mcconnell, Albuquerque City Commission, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, United States

  Sen. Pete V. Domenici told a gathering of family members and supporters in Albuquerque that he has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disease and will not seek a seventh term next year.

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• Carrion: Some Dems in a Corner Over Spitzer's Plan

  Published: October 5, 2007, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Politics, Charles Schumer, Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, John Hall, Michael Arcuri, Tim Bishop

  Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Representatives John Hall, Mike Arcuri and Tim Bishop. If anyone knows anything about where they stand, please let me

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• Overturning Buckley?

  Published: October 9, 2007, 3:29 pm

  Tags: Campaign Finance Reform, Cfr, 2008 Elections, Charles Schumer, Chuck Schumer, Arlen Specter, Constitution, Fair Elections Now Act, Public Financing

  off-guard today: Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, have sent their colleagues a letter asking for co-sponsors of a bill that would in effect overturn the 1976 Supreme Court decision Buckley v. Valeo, which ruled that campaign spending was a protected form of free speech.

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• Bush Officials Launch Mortgage Coalition

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bush, Officials, Launch, Mortgage, Coalition, Henry M Paulson, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, Alphonso Jackson, Barney Frank, Charles Schumer, Nadeam Elshami, Nancy Pelosi, Federal Housing Administration, Housing Policy Council, Mortgage Bankers Association, U S Hou

  Responding to the rise in foreclosures, the Bush administration yesterday announced the creation of a mortgage industry coalition to "step up efforts" to prevent people from losing their homes.

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• White House to Give Senate Panel Surveillance Program Documents

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: White, House, Give, Senate, Panel, Surveillance, Program, Documents, Michael Mukasey, Patrick Leahy, The White House, John Conyers, United States, Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Fred Fielding, Jonathan Weisman, Joseph Lieberman, Kit Bo

  The White House agreed yesterday to give Senate intelligence committee members and staff access to internal documents related to its domestic surveillance program in a bid to win Democratic lawmakers' support for the administration's version of an intelligence measure.

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