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...hear New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles Schumer and a host of business luminaries tell it, the U.S. is losing its financial edge--and the law is largely to blame...
...their individual needs and priorities--he reserves a breast pocket of his jacket for note cards on which he records favors asked and promises made--Reid managed with sheer vigilance and persuasion to keep spotlight-loving Senators like Illinois' Dick Durbin and New York's Chuck Schumer in harness, and unpredictable spirits like Montana's Max Baucus from straying over the fence...
...bill discards them." Across the country Democratic candidates for both chambers of Congress painted their opponents as rubber stamps for Bush's failed policy in Iraq. And the day before the Nov. 7 vote that would vindicate his chairmanship of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, New York's Charles Schumer said voters were flooding to Democrats in part because they had decided that the country needed "some checks and balances in this government...
...going to see many more hearings," Schumer said yesterday when I asked him if there was increased willingness of Democrats to confront Bush's war powers. North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, the Democrats' third ranking member of the Senate and an outspoken Administration critic, said he thought it was "a little early" to roll back Bush's expansion of executive power in the previous Congress. A Democratic judiciary staffer supportive of a rollback said, "We understand the political reality." And leadership aides say bluntly that short of new revelations that turn public opinion against expanded executive authority, the Democrats...
...Paulson's problem is compounded by the fact that the clock is ticking. With a new Democrat-run Congress due to open for business in January, he may not even have months. One of the most powerful Democratic voices in the Senate will be that of Charles Schumer, co-sponsor of a temporarily postponed bill that would impose heavy tariffs on Chinese products if Beijing doesn't allow the renminbi to rise from what Schumer and others say is its current artificially low level against the dollar. Paulson may remind the Chinese, also, that the new Speaker of the House...