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CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D) District 9 (Parts of Brooklyn and Queens--Sheepshead Bay; Forest Hills...
...ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Schumer is a bad word to NRA lobbyists: he was a fierce sponsor of the assault-weapons ban and the Brady Bill, which mandates a five-day waiting period before buying a handgun. He also sponsored a law making it illegal to obstruct access to abortion clinics, a popular move in the liberal Ninth. By no means camera shy, Schumer may be setting himself up to bid for New York's governorship...
Verga, another nonpolitician diving into politics, says he's a fed-up citizen who wants to see new leadership and accountability in government. In classic Republican fashion, he attacks the liberal Schumer as a "tax-and-spend" lawmaker, and in a mostly white, middle-class Brooklyn and Queens district surrounded by encroaching inner-city slums, he points out that high taxes have not helped to combat drugs, unsafe streets and an unraveling school system...
This summer, my representative, Charles E. Schumer '71, was briefed on the amount of correspondence for and against every major issue and read dozens of letters each week. On many key issues, the constituents had the final say. On the Defense of Marriage Act, for example, the socially liberal Schumer waited to examine the tally of constituent calls before finally deciding to vote...
...study, a compromise that passed the House last Friday. But even if the Senate eventually goes along, the research will delay for at least a year any decision to finally use taggants. "And then the N.R.A. will likely find some other way to kill the idea," says Representative Charles Schumer, disgustedly...