Chuck Schumer

We would like to send them to Iowa on vacation to help pick the corn, but, certainly, we hope that this ethanol fight, as fractious as it is--I can state that the citizens of New York will not declare war on the citizens of Iowa.

Although the bill declares economic war on the citizens of New York, Connecticut, California, and other places which don't have the ethanol. By the way, I say to my good friend from Iowa, I would not make the analogy that what the ethanol…

So it would be fair to say that he has still not answered the question, even though he said yesterday that he would come back and answer it.

I believe I now have 30 minutes? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Thune). The minority has 61 minutes remaining.

If the Senator wants to arrange to go for the next hour under Republican time, that is just fine. I would like to accommodate my friend, but we have a set schedule. We come at different times and places and we have stuck by it. We are…

When I came on the floor, my colleague was talking about the 214 years of tradition of no filibusters. Isn't it correct that on March 8 of 2000, my friend from Tennessee voted to uphold the filibuster of Richard Paez?

Will the Chair advise as to how much time remains on this side? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. One-half hour remains on the Senator's side. ____________________

An amendment just passed without notice to any of us that involves a dispute about a helicopter between New York and Connecticut. I did not know of that amendment. Neither did Senator Clinton. Neither did anybody else. So I have to object…

It is actually a reduction in the amount of money by $50 million. I urge my colleagues to support this deeply significant but, in terms of dollars, modest amendment so we can cut down the odds of a nuclear weapon being smuggled into this…

There have been 35 court of appeals judges confirmed under President Bush. There were 65 in the 2 Clinton terms, twice as long. At least thus far, we are doing a better job confirming President Bush's court of appeals nominees than the…

I rise reluctantly against the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement before us today, for one reason only. There have been other issues with this agreement. In my State, we are very concerned about dairy. But I think the people who put the…

First, this was a dastardly crime. This is a crime of a serious nature committed by someone in the White House. We know that much. Unfortunately, the attitude of the White House has not been what it should be. There ought to be an attitude…

I agree, and hope that when the Bond-Harkin amendment is discussed in conference, the Senators from Virginia and Michigan will take into consideration the workers in New York and throughout the country who share a similar set of…

I commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. On May 17, 1954, Justice Earl Warren read the unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court, which stated, ``We…

I ride a bicycle when I am in New York.

Would you want to take a stab at what you think the average will be?

That is a pretty good bet you will raise it.

So where does that lead the price in terms of the practical question that I get asked all the time?

The possibility of significant price spikes like we saw in California is very real.

Are you saying it is possible that the national average which is now what? Getting close to $1.80, is it?

As you know, I have been pushing the administration. Governor Pataki has asked for an elimination or a waiver of the oxygenate requirement.

Could it get as high as $2 or no?

New York Senator Chuck Schumer today reiterated his call for such a system.

First, I want to wish the President of the Senate a happy 80th birthday. I come from New York. We pride ourselves on good salmon. At his little gathering last night, the Alaska salmon looked beautiful and tasted as good as any salmon I…

To stop this, and that is come talk to us, work with us in a bipartisan way, nominate judges both sides can support. Don't say my way or the highway and this will stop. But that is the only way to stop it.