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Chuck Schumer

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Chuck Schumer is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New York since 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, he has held the position of Senate Majority Leader since January 2021, making him one of the most prominent figures in the U.S. Senate. Schumer previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999, representing New York's 9th congressional district. Throughout his career, he has focused on issues such as healthcare, infrastructure, and economic development, often advocating for policies that benefit working families and promote social justice.

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Jan 20, 1995

in a memo to the White House last night, a senior Republican linked our right to raise important and valid questions about the Speaker's book deal to passage of vital legislation. The memo actually seems to put the personal interests of…

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Jan 11, 1995

like the energizer bunny, the Christina Jeffrey story keeps going and going and going. Yesterday Speaker Gingrich's spokesperson, Tony Blankley, said that they did not know that Christina Jeffrey believed that a Holocaust class should…

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Jan 4, 1995

let me say that in this package, there is really less than meets the eye. There is not very much wrong with it. The problem is not what is in the package but what is not in the package. The problem is that after every one of these reforms…

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Mar 18, 1994

I wanted to talk about the U.N. Resolution that is coming before us today just for 1 minute, and that is, as we all know, for more than 2,000 years Jerusalem has been the focal point of Jewish religious devotion. Yet, in a matter of hours…

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Jan 26, 1994

I do not know how many of my colleagues have had the opportunity to see the movie, ``Schindler's List'', but I commend it to everybody. The horror of the Holocaust, of course, fades in most people's minds as we move in history. But it…

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