Tag Archives: schumer

High-Tech NYC.

Facebook is coming to the East Coast – fitting nicely into Mayor Bloomberg’s Plans to turn NYC into the next leading high-tech city in the World.

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Chuck and Bloomberg.

 

From the Ny Times:

“We want the next Facebook to start here,” Mr. Bloomberg said. High-tech jobs in the city have grown by more than a third over the past five years, the mayor added, noting his goal to make New York “the world’s No. 1 hub for information technology and social media.”

[..] Facebook announced on Friday that it planned to open an engineering office in New York City in early 2012, establishing the company’s first such outpost beyond the West Coast.

Full story.

NYers can take a joke.

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Sen. Schumer.

A brief exchange about humor and geography in the Senate yesterday.

From WaPo:

Republican Sen. John McCain was trying to make a point during debate on a defense bill Wednesday when he said Long Island “sometimes regrettably” was part of the United States. That drew a swift rebuke from Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who took to Twitter to demand an apology.

“All of America saw how heroic Long Islanders were on 9/11. Long Island deserves an apology,” Schumer said.

“I’m sorry there’s at least one of my colleagues that can’t take a joke and so I apologize if I offended him and hope that someday he will have a sense of humor,” McCain said.

That got Schumer tweeting more.

“NYers can take a joke. But if Sen. John McCain wants to mock parts of America, stick to Arizona.”

Full story.

Schumer joins the Tunnel debate..

Looks like Gov. Christie’s plans to scrap the tunnel – and use the money elsewhere – is meeting more resistance. Diverting dedicated funds to other projects is not that easily done..

From the CityRoom blog:

“In essence, the governor wants the Port Authority to help fill his budget gap,” Mr. Schumer said in the speech [..]. But, he added, “asking the Port Authority to take capital funds and redirect them on this scale, a scale never before contemplated, would be a mistake that rivals, and perhaps even surpasses the cancellation of the ARC tunnel as a risk to our region’s future.”

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Chuck Schumer puts it right.

From Politico:

Schumer’s differences with Obama began to surface in mid-2009, when he counseled the president to ditch his effort to pass a comprehensive health reform bill, arguing that the White House needed to be more focused on the faltering recovery and rising unemployment rate.

Exactly.

“My advice is very simple. It would be the same to the President, to my colleagues in the Senate and House, to people of the other party: Focus on the middle class like a laser,” Schumer said.

Exactly.

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Will Senate part from the WH? Schumer’s trial balloon..

TPM reports:

At a press conference this morning after Senate Republicans blocked a bid to let Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans expire, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said a large number of Democrats are prepared to continue this fight into next year, even if it means all the Bush tax cuts sunset as scheduled.

In response to a question from TPM, Schumer acknowledged, “there are lots of people in our caucus who do have that appetite. There are some who don’t.”

As he said that, several members joining him on stage — Mark Begich (D-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Al Franken (D-MN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — nodded in agreement.

Interesting days ahead..

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