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Schumer's influence grows

WASHINGTON - There was a time not very long ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recalls, when Sen. Charles Schumer was regarded by his Senate colleagues as "just a lot talk."

But what the voluble, driven, publicity-loving Schumer says - or writes - is now being taken very seriously indeed.

In a letter to federal regulators in late June, Schumer wrote that California-based IndyMac,...

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