[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 186 (Thursday, November 9, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5437]
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                   Recognition of the Majority Leader

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader is recognized.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, today's elections were another horrible 
defeat--sorry--Tuesday's elections--maybe today's, too, who knows--but 
Tuesday's elections were another horrible defeat for MAGA extremism and 
another affirmation for the democratic agenda of jobs, infrastructure, 
and lowering costs for the middle class.
  By now, Republicans need to admit there is a pretty clear pattern at 
play: Ever since Donald Trump was elected President, the MAGA agenda 
has led to failure in big elections, in small elections, in red State 
elections, in blue State elections, and everything in between. And it 
shouldn't be any big mystery why MAGA candidates and MAGA issues keep 
turning out to be duds. Americans don't want hard-right extremists and 
the chaos they bring to govern this country. Americans don't support a 
MAGA agenda that has, at its bedrock, radical attacks on women's 
healthcare.
  Americans want their elected leaders to choose bipartisanship, to 
focus on people's lives instead of cable news shows. Sadly, Republicans 
seem mightily impervious to the obvious truth that MAGA equals disaster 
for America and for their party.