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 is the Senate Minority Leader. The following is from a January 30, 2017, statement on the Senate floor regarding the President’s Executive order on immigration. I rise this afternoon, like much of America, angry and perturbed but in resolute opposition to the President’s Executive order issued on Friday. This Executive order was mean-spirited and un-American. It made us less secure. It put our troops in the…
