Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Outlining His Decision To Vote Against Kristi Noem’s Confirmation For Secretary Of Homeland Security

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on his decision to vote against confirming Kristi Noem to be Secretary of Homeland Security. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Today the Senate will vote on the nomination of Kristi Noem. I am voting no today.

There are obvious and bipartisan solutions to fix the mess at our border, and to greatly improve our immigration system.  

Those solutions include the bipartisan border security bill we introduced last year with Senators Lankford, Murphy, and Sinema, and—even better—a comprehensive reform package along the lines of the bipartisan compromise of the Gang of 8, from 2013.

These are real solutions that would solve our immigration problem. And Kristi Noem seems headed in the wrong direction.

I will vote no.

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