Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Thanking President Biden For His Decades Of Leadership And For His Selfless Decision To Put The Nation First

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor thanking President Biden for his decades of public service and his historic decision putting the nation first. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Last night, the American people saw why Joe Biden will go down as one of our nation’s most consequential, most decent, most patriotic presidents.

Over the last three years, he has amassed a record of accomplishment that has few equals in the history of the country. We in the Senate here, many times bipartisan, sometimes not, worked hard with the president to create one of the great legislative records in a year, in the year 2022. When President Biden entered office, America was in crisis, but today it is stronger, more prosperous, has a more hopeful future, because of his steadfastness, his strength, his vision.

So, this morning, I wish to say yet again “thank you, Mr. President, thank you.” You have shown the world what it looks like to put country over self. You have restored dignity and honesty and integrity to the White House.

I think of the song in Hamilton that goes “We’re going to teach them how to say goodbye,” that George Washington sang in the play, about not knowing when to stay and when to leave. Well, at this moment, Joe Biden is standing right next to George Washington in showing America he understood that message.

It’s been an honor to work with the president to enact the most ambitious legislative agenda since the Great Society. With President Biden, we have made tens of millions of Americans’ lives better, and we will keep working with him until his term is complete.

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