Chuck Schumer Quotes (UPD: No Ride List for trains)
I love the example of AT&T…Over the last ten years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of eight percent a year. They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then. Tax breaks don’t lead to job creation, They lead to big CEO salaries and money for the very, very wealthy. – Dec, 21 2017, attacking GOP led tax reform just moments after AT&T issued a statement giving the staff $1,000 Christmas bonuses. Full story HERE
Anyone, even a member of al-Qaida could purchase a train ticket and board an Amtrak train without so much as a question asked, so that’s why I’m calling for the creation of an Amtrak no ride list. That would take the secure flight program and apply it to Amtrak trains.
March 29, 2011 – Conference Call to fellow Democrats
I always use the word extreme. That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.
The main thrust is basically that we want to negotiate and we want to come up with a compromise but the Tea Party is pulling Boehner too far over to the right and so far over that there is no more fruitful negotiations,” Schumer said on the call. “The only way we can avoid a shutdown is for Boehner to come up with a reasonable compromise and not just listen to what the Tea Party wants.
