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...Chuck Schumer wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...
...York senator Charles Schumer - "How in God's good name can having three airlines increase competition?" - wants a nine-month freeze on all the deals except American's TWA takeover, which heartland pols are intent on, so that the feds can study what effect the Big Three scenario would have on pricing. Vermonter Pat Leahy worried that "the industry will be one work stoppage away from closing down one fourth to one third of America's air system...
...complained of "confirmation conversion," particularly by Ashcroft. As Missouri's attorney general, he once risked a contempt-of-court citation for not enforcing school desegregation. But during four days of hearings he invoked Bobby Kennedy as a role model. "It seems there are two Ashcrofts," said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer. Even Republicans were surprised, according to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, that Ashcroft seemed "so willing" to enforce laws he had previously opposed...
...incredibly strong feelings about John Ashcroft because he represents everything that is anathema to her - never made a single comment about him or his nomination. It's because she realizes, hey, I'm the junior senator from New York here, and she doesn't want to risk upstaging Chuck Schumer. So instead of making a grand speech, she was reduced to making these really mundane comments during Whitman's hearing...
...There will be no cramped weekday existence for her, like the members who live large in their home states but modestly in D.C. Senator John McCain stays in a thin-walled Crystal City high-rise, with jets from National Airport shrieking overhead. The senior Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, bunked for years with four guys. Others sleep in their offices and shower in the gym, as House majority leader Dick Armey used...