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Congressional Democrats are struggling to find the right formula for ending the war in Iraq. "This is a campaign," said New York Senator Charles Schumer, looking forward to a series of hearings and resolutions. "We are going to continue this discussion ... and we believe the more [the war] is debated and discussed ... the less flexibility the President will have in maintaining his course." Why not just try to pull the plug? Maybe Schumer has read about...
...York Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71, who had delivered a speech at NYU just the previous evening, condemned the CRs’ event as “obnoxious.” Many Republicans, too, assuredly share this Democrat’s irritation...
...Earlier this month, the students launched the Harvard Law & Policy Review in hopes of promoting discussion among liberal progressives, according to the journal’s editor-in-chief and co-founder, James H. Weingarten. The publication’s inaugural issue featured an article by Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 on congressional power in the 21st century. Schumer, New York’s senior Democratic senator and a Harvard Law graduate, argues that one of the new Democratic majority’s top priorities should be restoring accountability in government. “The primary mission...
...Charles E. “Chuck” Schumer ’71 addressed the Democratic Party’s need to achieve “concrete goals” in a forum at the Kennedy School of Government on Friday. Referring to his book “Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time,” Schumer, the senior senator from New York, named the most pressing problems facing the middle class today. The book, published in January, outlines 11 “concrete goals,” each of which...
Shareholder lawsuits are also blamed unfairly. Those suits typically accuse a company of securities fraud soon after its stock price plummets, and a 1995 federal law made them harder to pursue. After peaking in 1998, the number of such suits declined through last year. Bloomberg and Schumer have helpfully pointed out that settlements in shareholder suits have "skyrocketed" from $150 million in 1980 to $9.6 billion in 2005, which sounds impressive, except that most of the $9.6 billion came from the WorldCom settlement of $6.1 billion and nine other settlements of $100 million or more each...