Watch: Schumer asks for resolution on the “Ukraine whistleblower”

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Watch: Schumer asks for resolution on the “Ukraine whistleblower”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

By Graham MacGillivray

Posted September 24, 2019 at 5:21pm

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer asked his Senate colleagues to pass a resolution requesting the whistleblower complaint be transmitted to the Select Committee on Intelligence in the Senate and the House Intelligence Committee.

“I cannot imagine any legitimate or straight-faced reason for an objection to this unanimous consent request,” said Schumer on the Senate floor.

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