I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. Chuck Schumer More Quotes by Chuck Schumer More Quotes From Chuck Schumer Because of the White House’s glacial pace, there are hundreds and hundreds of Senate confirmable positions without any pending nominee from the administration, and just 7 pending nominees before the Senate, instead of pointing fingers of blame, the administration ought to roll up their sleeves and send qualified nominees to the Senate. Chuck Schumer latest-headlines We're happy to debate this wall in regular order down the road once he has a plan. Chuck Schumer politics In my view if the President stepped out of it, we could get a budget done Friday. Chuck Schumer politics We believe the Republican leaders should tell Donald Trump we can do this at a later time. I don't think it will pass. Chuck Schumer politics I want to come up with an agreement, our Republican colleagues know that since they control, you know, the House, the Senate and the White House, that a shutdown would fall on their shoulders, and they don’t want it. Chuck Schumer politics Making sure Assad knows that when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do. Chuck Schumer politics The truth is, each side can blame the other—we believe they’re more in the wrong, they believe we’re more in the wrong, the game of pointing fingers and they-started-it can go back and back and back to the very founding of the republic. Chuck Schumer politics We can decide, today, to commit to solving this problem. Each side can stop pointing fingers. Each side can lay down their arms, each side can put aside the resentments built up after years of trench warfare on nominees--We can decide, today, to talk about a way out of this impasse instead of changing the rules. Chuck Schumer politics It doesn’t have to be this way, the answer is not to change the rules, it’s to change the nominee. Chuck Schumer latest-headlines To my Republican friends who think that if Judge Neil Gorsuch fails to reach 60 votes, we ought to change the rules, I say if this nominee can not earn 60 votes, a bar met by each of President Obama's nominees and George Bush's last two nominees, the answer isn't to change the rules. Chuck Schumer opinion It's highly, highly unlikely that he'll get 60. Chuck Schumer politics Each side didn't get their nominee, let's sit down and come together. Chuck Schumer politics He stated he was not separating children from their parents, but that's not been our experience. Chuck Schumer politics If the nominee cannot earn the support of 60 Senators, the answer is not to break precedent by fundamentally and permanently changing the rules and traditions of the Senate, the answer is to change the nominee. Chuck Schumer top-news If he aims a proposal aimed at the middle class and the poor people, doesn't give breaks to the rich -- they're doing great, God bless them, I'm glad they're doing great; they don't need another tax break -- we could work with them, but I don't think they're headed in that direction, and they're going repeat the same mistake they made on Trumpcare with tax reform. Chuck Schumer top-news If he changes, he could have a different presidency. Chuck Schumer politics If the nominee can't get 60 votes, you don't change the rules, you change the candidate. Chuck Schumer top-news There’s been an almost seismic shift in the caucus [against Gorsuch]. Chuck Schumer politics It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency, you can bet if the shoe were on the other foot and a Democratic president was under investigation by the FBI the Republicans would be howling at the moon about filling a Supreme Court seat in such circumstances. Elizabeth Warren added on Twitter :. Chuck Schumer politics Judge Gorsuch looks like he's playing dodgeball with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he has bent over backwards to avoid revealing anything, anything at all about his judicial philosophy or the legal issues that concern the American people. Chuck Schumer politics
