Chuck Schumer: “We are about to experience one of the most incomprehensible and inexplicably absurd moments in the entire history of…”

“We are about to experience one of the most incomprehensible and inexplicably absurd moments in the entire history of this body. We are going to debate and vote upon whether what happened in New York on September 11 was an emergency. Think about it. We are debating whether what happened in New York on September 11 is an emergency. Some are saying it is not an emergency. Ask the thousands of families who lost loved ones as the Twin Towers collapsed. Ask the firefighters and police officers, emergency rescue workers who worked so valiantly, many giving their lives to rescue those in the Twin Towers. Ask the hospitals that extended themselves in ways they never had to before. Ask our mayor, a hero in America. Ask our Governor. If there was ever an emergency that affected the United States and certainly affected New York, it was this. Yet now we are debating whether this was an emergency. New York desperately needs the money that Senator Byrd has allocated in his bill.”