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      <excerpt>...asked not to be named. &quot;[President Barack] Obama will be having problems. He can make a case for the need to balance [Sen.] Chuck Schumer . What's Gillibrand ever done? He can say he turned around the city.&quot;And Giuliani has his supporters in denouncing </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...people.&quot; Rudy Giuliani says the trials are giving terrorists more rights than they are Sarah Palin says decisions President Obama is making are not right for America. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talks about the Senate health reform bill passing another...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rev. Wright. Sarah Palin says decisions President Obama is making are not right for America. Rudy Giuliani says the trials are giving terrorists more rights than they are Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talks about the Senate health reform bill passing anothe</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...that the actual facts are the opposite. From what I have heard so far (via progressive lawmakers like Tom Harkin and Chuck Schumer on Olbermann and Maddow earlier tonight) is that it&#8217;s really strong. It has a public option (opt-out, but that&#8217;s a lot</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a series of press conferences across the lower Hudson Valley last Friday, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced that he will be introducing legislation that will provide tax deductions to hunters who pay to have deer butchered and then donate the veniso</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...$36.85 million for construction and renovation projects through a federal appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate. Sen. Chuck Schumer&#8217;s office announced the passage of the Senate version of the 2010 Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill, which in</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and be executed?&quot; he demanded. &quot;These trials do not hinge on the desire of Khalid Sheik Mohammed,&quot; Holder shot back. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pressed Holder for a guarantee that the city would be reimbursed for the cost -- estimated at $75 million a ye</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...costs to the federal government more than any single bill that's ever been passed - over $500 billion,&quot; crowed New York Sen. Chuck Schumer. &quot;People will look back and say that this proposal was something that turned America around.&quot;  Senators said it wo</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>the Washington Times unearths a quote from New York Senator Chuck Schumer in which, just a few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Schumer mocks the idea that anyone would give the 9/11 plotters the same rights afforded to American citizens ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>&amp;quot;We will succeed,&amp;quot; said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). &amp;quot;There will be a bill signed into law that all of you, of America can be proud of.&amp;quot; Typical Schumer. F*ck the country. F#ck your kids. F.ck your grandkids. ...</excerpt>
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