Chuck Schumer

We are not expanding--or impinging on anyone's privacy rights.

I would hope that you internally would importune the powers that be to do so, as I am doing externally.

I have sponsored a bill--this is a nice bipartisan note with Senator Cornyn, my colleague on the Judiciary Committee--that would require purchasers of prepaid cell phones to present ID.

Well, it is legislation I am looking into, so I am glad you are positively disposed to at least exploring it.

I have introduced legislation to try and get the Federal law enforcement agencies to develop a comprehensive northern border counternarcotics strategy.

The ability to obtain records of past transactions is absolutely essential, whatever the method of payment or communication.

BP, of course, got the contract shortly after his release. I think that's a pretty good case.

The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

In short, it looks like our economy is in need of additional help.

The effects of long-term unemployment, which destroys job skills and demoralizes those who suffer from it, has the potential to create serious long-term problems in our Nation.

The devastation brought by the financial crisis is still with us, and while output has begun to grow, it is not growing rapidly enough to replace the millions of jobs lost during this crisis.

Thank you very much, Senator Shelby.

We were very big fans of the Schumer-Hatch, the HIRE Act, and that we thought that a jobs tax credit was something with very good job bang for the bucks that are on the line.

The official unemployment rate remains unacceptably high, 9.5 percent. But if you are one of the 15 million Americans who are out of work, the unemployment rate feels more like 100 percent.

The tax cut we proposed passed the Senate with 70 votes and became law as part of the HIRE Act in March.

According to a recent report by the Treasury Department, the tax cut has been a wild success.

We in the Congress need to do more to spur job creation.

Thank you, Mr. President. While I will be speaking on the subject of Senator Byrd, I, too, want to join my colleague from Illinois in commending our Senator from Alaska on this issue and so many others. The Senator's staff does not have to…

But was it improper for Justice Scalia to consider dictionary definitions?

I focused quite heavily on the Congressional record that had been put together before McCain/Feingold.

Congress came to the common sense conclusion that these expenditures had a poisonous effect on our democracy.

To me, the practical experience you had is almost the best one can have in terms of being a good judge.

And it sure wasn't improper of the Chief Justice to consider such sources in reaching his decision, was it?

The majority wrote this court now concludes that independent expenditures including those made by Corporations do not despite huge Congressional findings to the contrary...

I think activism does not have a party.