Love is in the air.

Via The Hill:

Charles Schumer has finally learned to laugh at John McCain’s jokes, and McCain has put aside his concerns about Schumer’s partisan reputation.

Schumer, the senior Democratic senator from New York, and McCain, the senior Republican senator from Arizona, have become the public face of the 844-page comprehensive immigration reform bill now pending in the upper chamber.

The bill’s success will depend largely on the bond Schumer and McCain have forged over the two dozen meetings they’ve held to put it together, many lasting until late at night.

They have established a jocular rapport in public, ribbing each other and seeming to genuinely enjoy each other’s company.

Schumer quipped at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor Thursday that McCain barely graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. McCain has deadpanned to reporters that Schumer is a “jerk” and that most Senate colleagues feel the same way.