Chuck Schumer

I think it is ideological as opposed to looking at the facts.

This idea that they are at the center of the crisis, as I say, I believe is ideologically driven as opposed to fact-based driven.

It's my understanding that the fiscal year 2010 appropriation included $70.7 million for the World Trade Center Health Program, but that the 2011 continuing resolution proposed by Senator Inouye does not specify an amount for the…

They might in Nassau have to do a survey for Nassau.

I have requested an IG investigation to get to the bottom of this.

I would also like to thank you for your service, Madam Secretary.

Yes, FEMA has been updating the flood maps. They are placing thousands of Long Island homeowners in high-cost insurance zones.

Even though there is still work to be done, the border is much more secure than when you became Secretary.

We urge you to carefully consider these concerns and we look forward to working with you to ensure the long-term health and vitality of American fisheries.

I rise today as the chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing to recognize the Government Printing Office, GPO, on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.

Well, after years of talk, it may well be that the time for change has finally arrived and we will have bipartisan support.

The nature of the problem really is known certainly to people in this room.

But in the short term, we had better be careful not to snuff out this nascent recovery by doing too much cutting.

This very moment is not time to radically reduce our spending or raise our taxes because the economy is still in a recovery mode and needs that support.

Those cuts would create job loss.

Senator Tester's legislation is common sense, bipartisan, and I hope we can all agree on it and do it.

I think that what has happened after Citizens United is corroding the very essence of our democracy.

The downpour of unaccountable spending is wrong. It undermines our political process.

I would be happy to say on the floor that that is the legislative intent.

Now, it takes eight seconds. Of course, if you say it very slowly, you could stretch it out to 20 seconds if you should want to.

The main problem is that action has shifted from PACs and 527 organizations, which have to disclose all of their contributors, to new 501(c)(4) and other types of 501(c) organizations which require no public disclosure of contributors.

It has ensured that the flood of corporate money flowing from undisclosed and unaccountable sources, such as Citizens United, would continue.

It is time for Congress to take back control.

Get rid of the limits on contributions and super PACs will go away.

If you do not require disclosure of the super PACs, there will be people who will want to give undisclosed.