Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Senate Working To Pass Bipartisan Appropriations Legislation

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the Senate’s work to advance bipartisan appropriations legislation. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

On the legislative front, the Senate will also move forward this week on bipartisan appropriations legislation.

I would note we are the only bipartisan appropriations legislation in town. The House has passed a series of very, very partisan bills, filled with poison pills, cutting deeply, way below the agreement that was made in the last resolution, when we dealt with avoiding default.

Last week, we began holding votes on a large number of amendments here in the Senate, offered on both sides of the aisle – in fact, when all is said and done, we will have considered forty amendments, forty, here on the floor.

If both sides cooperate, it’s my hope that we can pass these three appropriations bills by tomorrow.

When that happens, these three bills will be the only appropriations bills that have passed through either chamber with bipartisan support, which is the only way we are going to get any funding passed in divided government.

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