Honorable Charles Schumer
United States Senator, New York, Democrat
Senator Schumer was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998. He served in the New York Assembly from 1974 to 1980 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1999. He is the Senate Minority Leader. The following is from a February 14, 2019, Senate floor statement on the Green New Deal. I challenge Leader McConnell to say that our climate change crisis is real, that it is caused by humans, and that Congress needs to act. Let me elaborate. The Republican leader fashions himself as someone who doesn’t waste time with political stunts. I am not…
