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Wall Street Is Right -- This Time

John Standerfer | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: High-Frequency Trading, Chuck Schumer, Flash Orders, Stock Market, Short Selling Ban, Paul Krugman, Sec, Short Selling, Charles Schumer, Flash-Orders, Wall Street, Business News

In this post-Madoff environment, where the SEC needs all the credibility it can muster, it's critical that the agency not provide a knee-jerk response to every whim of the media and politicians.

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Durbin, Schumer: Town Hall Protesters Are "Birthers" "Tea Baggers," And "Fringe"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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The angry-mob style protesters who have infiltrated town halls around the country are the non-organic product of "tea-baggers," "birthers," and the co...

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Schumer: Reconciliation Is On The Table For Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Schumer Phone Call, Chuck Schumer, Reconciliation Health Care, Schumer Reconciliation, Health Care Reform, Reform Legislation, Politics News

A key Senate Democrat indicated on Monday that the party may route around the slow-moving bipartisan efforts of the Senate Finance Committee and inste...

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Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, President Obama, Al Franken, Independent Voters, Appropriations, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration Debate, Jared Polis, Politics News

Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?

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Random Thoughts for a Monday Morning

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Stimulus Plan, Goldman Sachs, Pat Buchanan, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Bailout, General Motors, Nancy Pelosi, Twitter, George W Bush, Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Sonya Sotomayor, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

For sure, let's not focus on the eight years it took Bush to destroy the economy when we can blame Obama for not fixing this colossal mess in his first 5 months.

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Schumer: With Franken Seated No Need To Compromise On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

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One of the leading Senate Democrats in the health care reform battle said that the seating of Al Franken has given the party the purpose and direction...

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Schumer Promises Public Option In Health Care Bill

The Hill | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

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The healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress this year will include a government-run public health insurance option, regardless of the bipart...

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GOP Opposing Public Health Care No Matter What It's Called

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Republicans Health Care, Health Care, Kent Conrad, Conrad Schumer Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Tuesday afternoon that he is "losing confidence that Senate Republicans will ever agree" to the creation of a na...

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Support a Public Option

Sen. Dick Durbin | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Public Option, Patrick Leahy, Dick Durbin, Senator Patrick Leahy, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Healthcare Reform, Senator Dick Durbin, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Congress is currently working on new reform legislation that will make quality health care available and affordable for all Americans. But we know the forces of the status quo will battle us every step of the way.

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Schumer: Dems May Have To Go It Alone On Health Care

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in a...

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Bush v. Gore Rears Its Head (Part IV): A New Check on the Court to Defend the Rule of Law

Shahid Buttar | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

The false national consensus that national security should trump constitutional protections for liberty and privacy exemplifies such collusion today.

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GOP Trots Out Old Extremist, J.D. Hayworth, as Spokesman against Immigration Reform

Frank Sharry | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Frank Sharry, Chuck Schumer, America's Voice, J.D. Hayworth, Extremism, Politics News

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration held a hearing about border policy. Its chairman, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), has ...

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Kim Hendren, After Calling Schumer "That Jew," May Abandon Senate Ambitions

AP | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Associated Press) - A Republican Senate candidate in Arkansas under fire for reportedly referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer as "that Je...

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To Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren's Grandchilden

Norman Lear | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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I grew up with a dad not that unlike your granddad and never stopped loving him. But that didn't keep me from wanting to throw up when the thick-headed mean clown in him appeared.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Job Losses, Unemployment, Guantanamo Detainees, Jeff Sessions, Chuck Schumer That Jew, American Idol, Gitmo, Pete Sessions, Republicans, Home News

Next week, Adam and Kris duke it out to see who will be the next American Idol. This week, Republicans duked it out to see who would be the next American Idiot. Sen. Jeff Sessions argued for keeping Guantanamo open by pointing to the "tropical breezes blowing through" the prison. Rep. Pete Sessions claimed President Obama is intentionally driving up unemployment and diminishing stock prices to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system." And Kim Hendren, a Republican Senate candidate from Arkansas, referred to Chuck Schumer at a campaign event as "that Jew," then dug himself deeper: "I was attempting to explain that unlike Sen. Schumer, I believe in traditional values, like we used to see on The Andy Griffith Show." I guessed he missed the episode about Goober's bar mitzvah. The Grand Oy Party.

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Kim Hendren Apologizes For Calling Sen. Schumer "That Jew"

AP | ANDREW DeMILLO | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A Republican state lawmaker hoping for his party's nod to run for Senate reportedly referred to Democratic Sen. Chuck Schume...

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One-Fourth Of Overseas Votes Go Uncounted: Report

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — One out of every four military personnel and other Americans living abroad may have been thwarted in their efforts to vote in the 2...

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Specter: Loyal Opportunists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.

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Moving Ahead on Reforming the Credit Card Industry

Jose A. Garcia | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Demos, Legislation, Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, Credit Card Industry, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Recession, Credit Card Regulations, Banking Industry, Predatory Interest Rates, Economy, Credit Card Debt, Chuck Schumer, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

It is projected that, between 2020 and 2030, developing country emissions of carbon from energy use will exceed those of developed countries.

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Schumer Puts Health Care Ball In Nelson's Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Health Care Reform, Ben Nelson, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) dealt a blow to health care reform last week when he said that any overhaul that involved the creation of a public plan that ...

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California Acts to Stop Libel Tourism

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Posted 06.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Libel, Arlen Specter, Chuck Schumer, Libel-Tourism, Free Speech, Terrorism, Hollywood, California, Home News

Without the Anti-Libel Tourism Act, every creative enterprise produced in California is at risk of financial destruction at the hands of foreign predators.

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Chuck Schumer To Bernanke: Your Failure To Protect Consumers Is "Unconscionable"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) scolded Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday over the Fed's reluctance to speed up the implementation of consu...

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Jay Bybee's Rules at Home: "Be Nice. Don't Hit." Bybee's Rules for the CIA: Torture Prisoners

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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Bybee seems to be against corporal punishment at home, but has no problem with slamming prisoners against walls, locking people in boxes and simulating drowning.

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Schumer: DOJ Should Investigate Red Cross Reports Of Torture

Raw Story | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

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A powerful Democrat has added his voice to those calling for a federal investigation into reports of torture at Guantanamo Bay and at black site priso...

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Schumer To Holder: Sue States That Won't Register Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Chuck Schumer, Elections, Voter Registration, Politics News

Federal law requires that public assistance agencies must make voter registration materials available to voters. But folks receiving that assistance h...

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