Schumer Floor Remarks on Bipartisanship, Judge Gorsuch and the Affordable Care Act
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Schumer Floor Remarks on Bipartisanship,
Mr. President, I rise this morning on a few topics, but first I wanted to mention that last night many of us spent some time at the
I'm all for it. Of course, we
...Because so far in this
* You can't try to improve the health care system with only Republican votes, on reconciliation, without consulting any
* You can't do an infrastructure package of tax credits and no real spending and then ask for bipartisan support.
* And you certainly can't limit your entire selection of
Bipartisanship means sitting down with
I truly hope the president and
Well, let's talk about the
Over the last several weeks, my Republican friends have tried to paint Judge
Of course, there are several principled reasons to object to
This idea that
He was culled from a list handpicked by the
Instead of consulting the
The
Surely my Republican friend from
Surely my Republican friend from
Take the
Mr. President - this is a group that holds extreme right-wing positions, a group that is far, far outside the American mainstream... and they want
Does anyone think they'd put a judicial moderate on their list who'd only call "balls and strikes?" Does anyone think there'd be all this outside, dark, undisclosed money being spent to support
No, there's a reason all this dark money is being spent to support him. There's a reason the
So when
So if Judge
The Majority is trying to make this a binary choice: confirm Gorsuch or change the rules. Not so. That's just not so. The idea that if
Now, one thing I want to say on the wall. I talked about the wall yesterday. I'm not going to elaborate, but I'd just like to add to the record a quote on the wall from none other than the Secretary of the Interior, former Republican Congressman Mr. Zinke from
"The border is complicated, as far as building a physical wall...The Rio Grande, what side of the river are you going to put the wall" We're not going to put it on our side and cede the river to
Finally, Mr. President, on the Affordable Care Act.
Today, 44
Last Friday, in the wake of the TrumpCare's defeat in the House, I was deeply concerned to hear the president say that he wants Obamacare to "explode." The president and his HHS Secretary
What our letter today says is that, if the president drops these efforts to undermine the law, we
It's time to work together to make healthcare even more affordable, not encourage of root for failure of the law that would have devastating consequences for millions of Americans.
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