Chuck Schumer

The Senator is exactly correct. It affects people across the board, including these fine people whom I met at the Utica Boilermaker 15K race. I thank my colleague for his, as always, astute questions. ____________________

In answer to my friend, I absolutely would because I have experienced the same thing. I was in my State in many areas that are Republican, many areas that Donald Trump carried. The same thing happened. I have not previously seen this depth…

I would ask my friend, the majority whip from Texas, a series of questions. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered.

I would ask my colleague a question. What would be wrong with 1 hour of debate on every amendment to this bill? What is the objection to that, since the majority is proposing no debate on amendments, and then saying it is an open process…

Will we get more than 2 minutes to debate each amendment we ask for or will we be under the reconciliation process, where we have 10 hours of debate and then every amendment only gets 2 minutes? Does he consider that--2 minutes, if that is…

I would like to just then tell my friend from Texas: This is the bill. It was posted online a half hour before we came in. I would ask a page to come over and bring it to my dear friend and ask him if this is the bill which we have read.

Would my dear colleague from Texas yield for a question? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Texas does not have the floor. You have the floor.

The question is, Does the majority leader know that a half hour before we came to the floor were 142 pages of the bill listed online? That is what we used in our report. I would ask the majority leader a further question: If there is…

Would the majority leader yield? I am the minority leader, at this point. Mr. McCONNELL. I will yield for a question.

142 pages thus far of this supposed bill have been printed online, and that is what I have used. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The minority whip.

Leader time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator has the floor.

The Senate Republican health care bill is oh wolf in sheep's clothing. Only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the House bill.

This is a nasty bill. And they're trying to cover it up with little things here and there.

The Senate Republican health care bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Will it be more than 10 hours? That is my question. Mr. McCONNELL. I think we will have ample opportunity to read and amend the bill.

I would just renew my request for one other--the leader said no. I get it. One more. Will we have time--more than 10 hours since this is a complicated bill--to review the bill? Will it be available to us and the public for more than 10…

I would also like to express my heartfelt condolences to the families of the seven U.S. Navy sailors who were lost in the crash of the USS Fitzgerald. The loss of these seven men in peacetime, in such a bizarre and rare accident, is…

Before I begin, I want to express how glad we all are to hear that Representative Scalise is doing better. Over the weekend, his condition changed from critical to serious. It seems he has a ways to go, but we are all very happy to hear…

I think Pres. Trump summed up his health care bill best with one word. Mean. For once, on the topic of health care, my colleagues and I find ourselves agreeing with the president. This bill is mean. Very mean.

Today is a day to come together.

If it can help bring things closer together and help us all work closer together, it's a horrible way to do it.

There's a lot of heated rhetoric from all different directions. It doesn't excuse this. It doesn't condone it, but it's a good reminder that maybe we can bring the temperature down across the country and the Congress and everywhere else.

Not to say we can't make it better and we're going to try.

Is omniscience a comment of all-knowing, and if I don't know what the bill is all about, then I couldn't be omniscient; isn't that true?

That will go so much further than these kind of -- I don't know what you call them.