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Schumer Statement On Planned November Reopening Of Northern Border

New York, N.Y. - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement after the Biden administration and Department of Homeland Security announced plans to reopen the U.S.-Canadian border to nonessential vaccinated travelers by early November.… more...

Senators Unveil New Captured Courts Report on Texas Assault on Reproductive Rights

Senate Democrats reveal dark-money scheme behind anti-abortion crusade Senate Democrats, led by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), released a new report in their Captured Courts series on the corrosive effect of a Supreme Court controlled by dark-money interests on women's reproductive freedom. The new report focuses on the "shadow docket" ruling by Republican appo… more...

Schumer, Murray, Blumenthal, Durbin Joint Statement On House Passage Of The Women’s Health Protection Act

New York, N.Y. - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Lead Sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, and Senator Richard Durbin, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee released the following joint statement on House passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act.… more...

Op Eds

Schumer Op-Ed in New York Daily News - Gun sanity time in Washington: Chuck Schumer says Republicans must sign onto universal background checks

In my office in Washington, I keep photos given to me by the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school next to pictures of my wife and two daughters. Those photos are a searing reminder of the tens of thousands of American lives lost each year by gun violence, and the moral imperative we have to do something about it. According to the Gun Violence Archive, El Paso and Dayton marked the 250th & 251st mass shootings of the year. That's not counting the thousands of other acts… more...

Schumer Op-Ed In The NY Times: Our Rights Hang In The Balance

Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement has created the most important vacancy on the Supreme Court in our lifetimes. Whoever fills Justice Kennedy's seat will join an evenly divided court with the ability to effect the laws of the United States and the rights of its citizens for generations. Enormously important issues hang in the balance: the right of workers to organize, the pernicious influence of dark money in politics, the right of Americans to marry who they love, the right to vote. Two iss… more...

Schumer Op-ed in USA Today: Donald Trump's Tax Reform is Nothing Like Ronald Reagan's

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following in USA Today on the Trump administration's tax reform plan. The op-ed can be found here and below. Anyone who remembers the substance and the process of the 1986 Tax Reform Act should be baffled that President Trump has compared his current tax plan to that famous bipartisan bill signed by former president Ronald Reagan. Trump's partisan tax cut bill differs from that one in three major ways: It helps the rich at the expense of the middle … more...

Speeches

Schumer Floor Remarks On Senate Passage Of Legislation To Extend The Debt Ceiling And Avoid A First-Ever Default

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor in advance of the passage of legislation to extend the debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever default. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks:… more...

Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Announcing An Agreement To Extend The Debt Ceiling Through December

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor to announce that an agreement has been reached to extend the debt ceiling. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Today’s Cloture Vote To Allow Democrats To Raise The Debt Ceiling And Avoid A First Ever Default

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor this afternoon’s cloture vote on the House-passed message that would suspend the debt ceiling and avoid a historic default. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

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