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...York Democrat Chuck Schumer recommended that a single official - the Treasury Secretary, or someone else - be appointed to oversee the process. But nobody's volunteering for that job. Officials at Treasury and the Federal Reserve, already overburdened with the banking bailout, aren't interested. And the rest of the Bush administration seems to be running on autopilot for the final weeks of its existence...
Sympathetic Democrats like Charles Schumer of New York suggested that the most realistic solution would be to appropriate just enough money to keep the companies alive until early next year, when a new Congress and Administration can tackle the complicated issue in a more comprehensive fashion. But even if a short-term fix of, say, $15 billion, is approved to keep Detroit going until the end of March, there is still disagreement over many details. Republicans want to take the money from a $25 billion modernization fund set up earlier this year, but environmentalists are adamantly opposed to such...
...Brad Thompson 9-1 to open the matchup. But the second game was a nail-biter, as Ahmed barely squeezed out the win, 10-8. The Harvard freshman then rallied in the third game and won 9-6 to take the game. —Staff writer Alison E. Schumer can be reached at aschumer@fas.harvard.edu...
Just as the financial crisis has lifted Barack Obama and Joe Biden, it is boosting the prospects of the party's House and Senate candidates across the map. "There are states where we never thought we had a chance that we now do--like Georgia," says Senator Charles Schumer, the New Yorker who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Indeed, though Georgia incumbent Saxby Chambliss was sitting on an 18-point lead in September over former state representative Jim Martin, the latest polls have Martin pulling within 3 points of the incumbent. Four other GOP Senators--Elizabeth Dole of North...
...suddenly popular idea of drilling for more oil. But the market meltdown has replaced $4-per-gal. gas as voters' top concern, and ever since Herbert Hoover, voters have looked to Democrats in economic hard times. "We're not catching a break," laments Nevada Senator John Ensign, Schumer's GOP counterpart who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee...