[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 34 (Monday, February 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S1421]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   President's Joint Session Address

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I welcome the majority leader and 
everyone back after the first district work period of the year. 
Tomorrow night, the President will give his first address to a joint 
session of Congress. I will have more to say later this afternoon at 
the National Press Club about the first month of the Trump 
administration and what we can expect from the speech. For now, I will 
just say that if past is prologue, the President will come to Congress 
with a populist message in an attempt to cloak what has been a hard-
right, anti-working person administration.
  His words are populist. He talks as though he favors the working men 
and women of America, but his actions are straight out of the hard-
right playbook, which makes it easier for the special interests and 
puts greater burdens on the backs of the working class and the middle 
class.
  Every American should be looking at what this President is doing, not 
saying, because, thus far, the two have been vastly different.