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“BUSINESS BEFORE THE SENATE” mentioning Charles E. Schumer was published in the Senate section on page S908 on March 1.
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The publication is reproduced in full below:
BUSINESS BEFORE THE SENATE
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President pro tempore, now, on Senate business, the Senate will have a busy week ahead of it. Today and tomorrow, the Senate will confirm two more members of President Biden's Cabinet: Dr. Miguel Cardona to serve as Secretary of Education and Governor Gina Raimondo to serve as Commerce Secretary.
The Senate will also confirm Dr. Cecilia Rouse to serve as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, another history-making pick who will be the first Black official to head that Department.
All three nominees are exceptionally well qualified. All have received bipartisan support in their respective committees, including a unanimous vote in favor of Dr. Rouse.
As we continue the fight against the pandemic on all fronts--in particular, the damage it has caused our schools and our economy--these nominees will have a difficult and important task ahead of them. It will be very good news once we have them confirmed and on the job.
The Senate will then return to the American Rescue Plan, comprehensive legislation that will help us crush the virus, recover our economy, and get life back to normal.
(Ms. HIRONO assumed the Chair.)
Defeating the pandemic is national priority No. 1: getting our schools to reopen as safely and quickly as possible; helping small businesses hang on until the economy can come roaring back; keeping teachers and firefighters and other essential employees on the job; providing aid to the jobless, food to the hungry, direct cash payments to millions of Americans struggling--struggling--for the cost of rent, groceries, medicine, and utilities; speeding the distribution of the vaccine, which is the cornerstone to ending this awfully dark chapter in American history.
That is what our country needs, and that is what the American Rescue Plan will achieve. To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, we must do the first things first.
Last week, the legislation passed in the House of Representatives. This week, the Senate will take up the measure. Let me say that again. The Senate will take up the American Rescue Plan this week.
I expect a hearty debate and some late nights, but the American people sent us here with a job to do: to help the country through this moment of extraordinary challenge; to end, through action, the greatest health crisis our country has faced in a century. And that is just what we are going to do.
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