Schumer said Monday that an initial timetable called for delivering the text of a bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee by March, and Senate passage by late spring or in the summer.
As the City of New York struggled to deal with the effects of hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed schools for a third day and declined to offer a solid timetablefor the resumption of power or rail service to the city, which was hard hit by the storm on Monday night.