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choie

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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 12:20 AM Apr 2013

Oh Look - it's the Senator from Wall Street...

being all bi-partisan and singing kumbaya with Tom Coburn and Marco Rubio....


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WASHINGTON — For much of the last decade, Senator Charles E. Schumer’s job was to bury Republicans, as one of his party’s most ruthless strategists and tireless fund-raisers. It was a job he did so effectively that he was asked to do it twice.

But to watch Mr. Schumer operate these days, it would seem he has managed to get some Republicans to forget. There are now regular early-morning chats on immigration reform with Marco Rubio in the Senate gym. There was the excursion last week to the Mexican border with John McCain, who after learning that their visit would fall during Passover offered, “I’ll bring the latkes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/us/politics/schumer-reaches-across-the-aisle-as-a-bipartisan-bridge-builder.html?pagewanted=1&hpw

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Oh Look - it's the Senator from Wall Street... (Original Post) choie Apr 2013 OP
There's about 70 senators from that state. tblue Apr 2013 #1
He's the majority leader... choie Apr 2013 #2
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