Chuck Schumer

We do not even now know what the TPA is going to be like. Not fair.

To say that we are having a hearing now before we have seen the agreement... is not fair, not right, and not adequate.

This process is not good. First, we are dealing with an issue that is unique.

I am optimistic that Senators Grassley, Leahy, Cornyn, and I can come up with a bipartisan solution that will actually pass the Senate this year.

It is a crazy system.

A patent reform bill needs to meaningfully address the needs of these start-ups to earn my vote.

I feel so strongly about this--not just from a New York point of view, but from a national point of view.

I want to thank Senator Cornyn for working closely with me in trying to come up with a bipartisan solution, and Senators Grassley and Leahy for helping us put that all together.

I think a patent box is terrible policy.

The fundamentals are, we should design a broad-based tax.

The worst thing that we can do as policymakers: sit on the sidelines and watch this happen.

I have to say we are making good progress. I am pretty heartened by how it is going.

We need to compete with that, so we need to keep up with those changes.

We are sitting on our hands, and other countries are trying to gobble up the field.

Our booming tech sector relies on foreign skilled workers.

Plain and simple, it is a myth that the H-1B visa program takes jobs away from Americans.

For every 100 H-1B workers, an additional 183 jobs are created for American-born workers.

The most productive way we could use our time here is start to work again on comprehensive immigration reform.

The bill was great for our economy, good for the country, tough on the border, and certainly not amnesty.

It is tough on our border, tougher than anything I have heard the other side propose.

The Senate-passed bill from Congress, in my opinion, would fix our broken immigration system.

What we saw was truly incredible.

Instead of passing the bipartisan compromise that would have fixed our immigration system, some of my friends across the aisle have preferred the status quo.

I was frustrated to see it fail to even get an opportunity for a vote in the House, where it surely would have passed with significant Republican support.

We have not done enough to reverse the tide of illegal immigration and our legal immigration system is not calibrated in a way that befits our modern economy.