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Vote: | A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. |
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Vote: | America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. |
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Vote: | Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. |
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Vote: | Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. |
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Vote: | Getting the Olympics would be a huge boost for New York economically, developmentally, and spiritually. The most talented people in the world have always come to New York to prove they have what it takes, so it makes perfect sense for the best athletes in the world to come here for the same reason. |
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Vote: | Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. |
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Vote: | Hawks should be as angry or more angry with the President than doves, because the bottom line is that Iraq wasn't thought through. |
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Vote: | His [President George W. Bush} two greatest priorities are permanent tax cuts and Social Security. And somehow just by coincidence the real bite of those programs, which make the deficit even worse than it is, don't occur until 2009, starting when the president leaves office. |
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Vote: | I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. |
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Vote: | I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. |
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Vote: | I, for one, believe a judge can be pro-life yet be fair, balanced, and uphold a woman's right to choose. But for a judge to set aside his or her own personal views, the commitment to the rule of law must clearly supersede his or her personal agenda. That's a trick some can pull off, but not everyone can. |
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Vote: | Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges. |
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Vote: | If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. |
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Vote: | In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. |
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Vote: | In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die. |
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Vote: | Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. |
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Vote: | It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty. |
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Vote: | It's disgraceful for the president to get up and say he supports the assault weapons ban, and then have his aides whisper to the House, kill it in the dead of night. |
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Vote: | On this Groundhog Day, we might wait all day for Puxatawny Phil to come out of his hole, but we can't afford to wait for the 527s to come out and come clean. |
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Vote: | People desperately want work. The best thing we can do is give them jobs by stimulating the economy in a real way. But until we do, it is our fundamental and solemn and important responsibility to at least let them live a life of dignity, maintain the payment on the home, feed the child, put a coat on the spouse's back. |
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Vote: | Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. |
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Vote: | Terrorism can be described in a single sentence, which is that the very technology that has blessed our lives and accounted for so much of the prosperity we have seen over the last two decades has an evil underside; namely, that small groups of bad people can get ahold of that technology and use it for terrible purposes. |
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Vote: | The citizen soldiers of New York's National Guard have selflessly sacrificed to fight the war abroad and to defend our security at home. The government owes them nothing less than to support them with the absolute best training and equipment available. |
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Vote: | The sad fact is, if 500 random people around the world, with some leadership, were injected with an evil virus and they were to decide, fanatically, they would devote the next 5 years of their lives to figuring out how to hurt America and try to implement it, the odds are too high that they could succeed. |
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Vote: | To win this war on terror - it is the same as a good sports team. We need a good offense, we need a good defense. |
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Vote: | We live in a new world. It is a post-September 11 world. We have to adjust to those realities. I believe we can do both: have security and liberty, the great concern of our Founding Fathers. |
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Vote: | What did we learn on 9/11? We learned that the very technology that blessed our lives and accounted for so much of the prosperity we have seen in the last two decades has a dark and evil underside; namely, that small groups of bad people can get ahold of that technology and do tremendous damage in our country. |
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Vote: | When a country cannot deal with an issue in a straightforward, forthright way, when a country that has had success takes a step back because a narrow few have some ideological notion that everyone should be entitled to have any weapon they want - some of them even believe a bazooka or a tank is okay - then something is wrong. |
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Vote: | When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. |
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Vote: | Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11. |
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Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is the senior Senator from the state of New York and a member of the Democratic Party.
Schumer was born in Brooklyn. He served in the New York Assembly from 1974 to 1980. He represented New York's ninth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1980 to 1998. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998, when he defeated three-term incumbent Republican Al D'Amato. In 2004 he was re-elected with more than 70 percent of the vote.
Schumer currently serves on the following Congressional committees:
* Senate Committee on Finance
* Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
* Senate Committee on the Judiciary
* Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Schumer's propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke amongst many commentators, leading Bob Dole to quip that "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera."
Schumer has faced criticism from the National Rifle Association and other gun groups (see gun politics) for coauthoring the federal assault weapons ban in 1994 with California Senator Dianne Feinstein; these groups have criticized him for allegedly not knowing much about guns, pointing to various errors regarding the subject. Supporters of gun control legislation, however, give him much of the credit for passage of both the assault weapons law and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act despite intense lobbying from opponents.
In addition to gun control, Schumer has focused on banking and consumer issues, counter-terrorism, and debate over confirmation of federal judges, as well as economic development in New York.
In 2004, Schumer handily won re-election against Republican Assemblyman Howard Mills of Middletown and Conservative Marilyn O'Grady. Schumer outpolled Mills, the second-place finisher, by 2.8 million votes and won reelection with 71% of the vote, the highest ever for a Senator's election in New York.
Schumer is currently the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, part of the Democratic Senate Leadership, with primary responsibility for raising funds and recruiting candidates for the Democrats in the 2006 Senate election. When he took this post, he announced that he would not run for Governor of New York in 2006, as many had speculated he would. This step avoided a potentially divisive gubernatorial primary election in 2006 between Schumer and Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general. Schumer's daughter, Jessica, is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School.
External links *Schumer's official Senate website
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