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...meantime, tempers are flaring on Capitol Hill. If the White House intended this nomination to its nose at the Democratic minority, it has succeeded. Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Richard Durbin of Illinois have angrily pledged to fight the Pickering nomination...
Anthony Freinberg’s column (“Partisanship, Harvard-Style,” Oct. 18) really cheered me up. I wish he’d run for senator in my state, New York. Both Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though neither of them is running for office this year, displayed an amazing gutlessness when it came time to vote on the resolution transfering the Senate’s Constitution-given powers to declare war to the most ignorant and arrogant president we’ve seen in a while. Neither of them...
...sign a bill he believes is illegal?" asks one Republican.) Bush barely tried to rescue Pickering's nomination at the 11th hour, even though the judge's patron was Lott, the Senate's Republican leader. The day before the Judiciary Committee's vote, Bush phoned Charles Schumer, a liberal Democrat on the panel, to ask if he would change his mind and support Pickering. Schumer announced in early February that he was against the Mississippi judge. Incredulous at Bush's call, Schumer politely declined...
...Pickering get picked on? At least one Democrat was straightforward about the reasoning behind his vote. The New York Times reports that Charles Schumer admitted that Pickering was “a decent and honorable man and certainly not a racist.” But Schumer went on to explain that the vote was about demonstrating the unacceptability of “stack[ing] the courts with Scalias and Thomases...
...former first lady recounted her own experiences on the day of the attack, telling the audience how she heard the news on her way to a education hearing in Washington. She and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 (D-N.Y.) immediately flew back to New York City to survey the damage...