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 1980 to 1988. He chairs the Joint Economic Committee and sits on the following committees: Rules and Administration; Judiciary, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts; Finance; and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The following is from the February 13, 2009, Senate floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. I rise this afternoon to talk about…
