By ANDY
BARR | Politico.com
February 9, 2009
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused Senate Republicans Monday
of dragging their feet on the $800 billion stimulus package.
“Why quibble over $200 million?” he asked during
an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Schumer blamed Republicans for not meeting Democrats halfway
in making a compromise.
“The two biggest amendments in the Senate, one totaling
$70 billion, one totaling $30 billion, were offered by Republicans
and accepted by Democrats. We voted for them,” Schumer
said. “They voted against the bill. I mean, what do you
want us to do?”
“As for bipartisanship, you know, we’re trying,” he
added.
The Democrat warned that delaying the stimulus could prove
disastrous for a country “on the edge of getting into
a depression.”
“If we waited too long and we’re in a depression,
you can be sure on this show and the historians would say, ‘what
did they dither for?’” he said.
Despite the sense of urgency, Schumer said the Senate is getting
hung up on partisan battles stemming from ‘mistrust’ rather
than substantive differences.
“There’s a lot of mistrust, frankly, on both sides
of the aisle,” he said. “There’s been huge
partisanship.”
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