Well, if there was ever any doubt that Chuck Schumer has been going places fast for a junior Senator, we need wonder no longer.  This from Capitol Confidential:

New York Politics Capitol Confidential : Albany Times Union : timesunion.com — Capitol confidential ? Rising Chuck

It didn?t take long for the Democrats to show their appreciation for U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer?s work this year as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The senior senator from New York was picked today as vice chair of the Democratic Conference - making him the third highest ranking Democrat in the chamber - and chair of the Joint House-Senate Economic Committee, a post that rotates between the two chambers each year. He also said he?ll do another two-year stint as DSCC chair.

So powerhouse New York just got a bit more juice.  Schumer and Clinton both have seemed to adopt the Upstate Strategy for political success, including Chuck Schumer’s patient manuvering to try to get international designation for our doomed Fast Ferry so it wouldn’t get buried in taxation every time it crossed Ontario - a singularly pathetic and humiliating moment in Rochester history.  I shall be watching events in Washington to see if anything does indeed change for us here in Upstate.  Did we, lowly Upstate, get more juice?

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