Schumer: Refugee pause may be necessary
Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, on Tuesday said it may be necessary to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.
Republicans immediately seized on Schumer’s comment, which breaks with other Democrats who have argued against halting the program.
Schumer, however, declined to take the option off the table ahead of a special briefing scheduled for Wednesday afternoon on the process that is now used to vet refugees entering the United States.
“We’re waiting for the briefing tomorrow, a pause may be necessary. We’re going to look at it,” he said.
Schumer is widely expected to become leader of Senate Democrats in the next Congress, after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) retires.
A spokeswoman for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) highlighted Schumer’s statement as an example of “bipartisan concern” over refugees.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/260471-schumer-refugee-pause-may-be-necessary
Schumer should be ashamed of himself. It isn't that much different when Jews were trying to escape Germany during World War II, and the U.S. wouldn't accept them.
Schumer should NOT be the rubber stamped leader of the Senate Democrats
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His stance on this is disgusting. No empathy for those who are in a very similar boat? OMG!!! 
All 4 of my grandparents were born in Europe. The remarks made to me and my family were disgusting. One mother would not let her children play with me because my grandmother was foreign born. Jews, Roman Catholics, Blacks, Italians, Hungarians, you name it -- not WASP and they were shit in the eyes of the VEDDY white folk who populated the country club.
I don't think things have changed much in this little town...and I am so glad that my parents moved to the West Coast just before my 14th birthday!
Yeah, Jews were way at the bottom of the list of acceptable to the WASP community. My mother has denied her Jewish ancestry for as long as I remember and until the day she died. Gag me. What got to me also? Those of the orthodox faith who would join the Episcopal Church because of that was acceptable whereas being a member of the (fill in the blank) Orthodox Church was not.
The funny part? My grandparents ran the best bars, night clubs and restaurants in the whole area and were far more successful than those WASP azzhats that looked down on them.
Yeah, I get it...totally! 
I was merely expressing thoughts from my childhood.
I can say whatever comes from memories I express, because they're my memories. Sorry if you're offended or that you want to read more into what I said than what I wrote, but I reaffirm what I said.
You lost me on a lot of stuff you wrote. It doesn't dignify an answer. However, on my avatar, I voted for Bill Clinton and saw the garbage he was put through when he worked tirelessly to make our country better and in fact, made it better in so many ways. When he said "my fellow Americans, the state of the union has never been better" IIRC, it was indisputable. In my mind, he's top 10 U.S. presidents of all time. He won against the odds. He & VP Gore passed legislation against the odds. He stood up against the rethugs and he stood up for those who supported his policies. All admirable qualities of being a democrat.
What makes me a democrat is that, democrats are a big tent party. They don't resort to name calling and demanding that all of their constituents fall in line with they're narrow minded views. And they don't throw a tantrum when one of their own expresses views they may not share.
when he had a local show in NYC. 
edit: He actually had a segment on that show called "Hannity's Insanity", right at the end. He'd open up the lines, and each caller had "fiver seconds, and five seconds only". Pretty good radio, considering. 
