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Chuck Schumer: “This nominee package is a perfect symbol of what this…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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LIVE: I'm speaking on the Senate floor, 12.4.25

Published | Video Starts at 08:04

So when you put in these bad nominees, when you either sneak them through or bludgeon them through the administration, and unfortunately, the American people pay a very significant price. This nominee package is a perfect symbol of what this majority has been about from day one. Bowing to Donald Trump, rubber stamping his unqualified loyalists, and chipping away at the Senate's role as a check on a highly abusive executive. Yield the floor. Note the absence of a quorum. Clerk of Calderola, Zalcer Brooks. It. (08:04–08:21)

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Asserts that the nominee package reflects the majority's pattern of supporting Trump's unqualified nominees and undermining Senate oversight.

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