Chuck Schumer

We need to look very carefully at the consequences that consolidation will have on competition, jobs, and service to consumers.

It is critically important to me that New Yorkers continue to have access to a wide breadth of options for services to and from our airports.

I want to compliment our Chair on her first hearing since assuming leadership of this extremely important Committee.

You just do not want to see the small planes go into the large cities and neglecting the smaller cities.

So I want to make sure that your obligation to allow competition of DCA and your obligation to serve regional markets, you do not feel they are mutually exclusive.

It is equally important that service is competitive in terms of both the cost and quantity of the flights.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:48 p.m., adjourned until Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 10 a.m…

We expect the chair and ranking member of the Appropriations Committee to make their opening statements on the continuing appropriations bill tomorrow at 11 a.m. We expect to begin consideration of the bill tomorrow after the recess for…

I am very interested in a rule proposal before the Commission enhancing the ability of retail investors to access proxy materials and actually vote their shares.

You would make that a priority?

I just fully support your nomination, and I do find it anomalous.

I wholeheartedly support Ms. White's nomination to be the next Chairman of the SEC.

Her long and distinguished career as a public servant...leaves no doubt that she is well qualified.

It is my great privilege to introduce Mary Jo White, the nominee to be the next Chairman of the SEC.

I am pleased that the President has nominated Mary Jo White to lead the SEC and Richard Cordray to continue leading the CFPB.

Reserving the right to object, I have some remarks I would like to make before 5:30. I do not object.

I wish to announce that the Committee on Rules and Administration will meet on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., to conduct a markup of the Omnibus Budget for Senate Committees. For further information regarding this meeting…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Would the rearrangement, if there is flexibility, affect economic growth in any real way

One of my colleagues... described it like the metaphor of the frog who jumps into a pot and the water just starts boiling

Estimates suggest that letting sequester take effect could reduce the GDP by as much as half a point over the remainder of the year.

It is a great Committee with a great group, and I hope we will have a good, productive time under the Chairman's leadership.

We have a serious problem with spending, with the budget, with being out of process. It is broken in Washington.

The program remains vital to obtaining insurance, regular insurance, to build and even to get financing.

The economic impact would be the same. I think the damage it would do to important investments, from defense to education, would be wrong.