Charles Schumer Federal Quotations

Certainly the attention of the 18 people who will do the questioning will not be diverted, ... One of the major, if not the major, worry many of us have about Judge Roberts is, does he believe in curtailing federal government power? And if there were ever a strong argument, a devastating argument in a very real sense, for strong federal government power, Hurricane Katrina made it.

Our measure is an anti-spiking device. What it does is, it says -- at times when there's an immediate shortage because of a natural disaster or a man-made disaster -- the federal government has an ace in the hole to keep prices from sky-rocketing out of control.

Our measure is an anti-spiking device, ... What it does is, it says -- at times when there's an immediate shortage because of a natural disaster or a man-made disaster -- the federal government has an ace in the hole to keep prices from sky-rocketing out of control.

Dr. Rice's speech suggests that at the very least there was a disconnect between the public security message and the policy prescriptions top White House officials were pushing and the private warnings federal agencies were issuing about imminent threats to our homeland,

Federal court candidates, who serve for life, should explain their judicial philosophy and their method of legal reasoning.

The report is a top-to-bottom indictment of the federal government's lack of resources, focus, and expertise in fighting the domestic war on terror.

The airlines had come to us and said, 'If everybody sues us, we'll go bankrupt.' The federal government stepped in to say, 'OK, we don't want the airlines to go bankrupt, but we want the people who need help to get help.' That's what happened here.

The federal government will make every family who lost someone or had someone injured whole.