Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, requesting that the FCC open a proceeding to review whether its legacy Section 214 authorizations of Chinese-state...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this joint statement after they spoke to President Donald Trump by phone this morning at their request.  The call marked 200 days since the Democratic House passed H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112, bipartisan...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today released the following statement opposing Steven Menashi’s nomination to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The Senators express deep concern with...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democrats today announced that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will investigate the Trump administration’s efforts to use eminent domain to “take the land” of private landowners by any means necessary to build an expensive,...

President Trump promised, again and again, that Mexico would pay for the vanity project that is his expensive, ineffective southern border wall. Instead, American families are paying the steep price, as the president has diverted much-needed funds intended for schools, military facilities, child...

EDITORIAL BOARDS ARE CALLING ON PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL TO STOP BLOCKING UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK LEGISLATION SUPPORTED BY MORE THAN 90% OF AMERICANS Washington Post Editorial: No, Sens. McConnell and Blunt. You’re the Ones Who Need to Step Up. “The...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the report that the Republicans’ healthcare sabotage has resulted in millions fewer people with health insurance coverage and skyrocketing costs for American families: “The...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after President Trump fired National Security Advisor John Bolton: “Today’s action by the president is just the latest example of his government-by-chaos approach and his rudderless national...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the report that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross threatened to fire employees at NOAA after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today sent a letter to President Trump urging him to publicly support the House-passed, Bipartisan Background Checks Act, H.R.8., noting his recent show of support for stronger...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT), U.S. Senate...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued the following statement after President Trump’s Department of Defense outlined the programs and projects it plans to defund in order to pay for President Trump’s unnecessary wall, defying...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after reports that the gunman who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas purchased his murder weapon at a private sale, bypassing a federal background check: “If the House-passed background checks bill...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper notified Congressional leaders that the Pentagon will reprogram $3.6 billion in funding intended for military construction projects for our troops to...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today in a statement warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that the world is watching how China responds to protests in Hong Kong and called on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to bring up the Hong Kong Rights and Democracy Act for debate and...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would implement a new illogical and devastating rule to roll back regulations on methane emissions: “This...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member  Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Brian...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after Senator Johnny Isakson announced that he will resign at the end of 2019: “One of the many fine adjectives to describe Johnny Isakson is a word not used enough in the halls of Congress these days:...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s attempt to divert money from FEMA at the beginning of hurricane season to continue its efforts to separate and jail migrant families: “The Trump...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Committee on Armed Services Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI), Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) today...