Chuck Schumer, the ‘Happy Worrier,’ Delivers

WASHINGTON — Senator Chuck Schumer was huddled in his Capitol office on Thursday evening awaiting a climactic meeting with Kyrsten Sinema, a critical holdout on his painstakingly negotiated climate change, tax and health care deal, when the loud booms and flashes of a powerful thunderstorm shook Washington, setting the lights flickering.

Mr. Schumer and his aides, so close to a signature legislative achievement to top off a surprise string…