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TRANSCRIPT: Majority Leader Schumer Remarks At Press Conference On The First Day Of Child Tax Credit Payments Thanks To The American Rescue Plan: Democrats Are The Party Of Tax Cuts For The Middle Class

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today delivered remarks at a press conference with Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR), Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on the Child Tax Credit payments secured by the Democrats in the American Rescue Plan that began going out today to American families. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

TRANSCRIPT: Majority Leader Schumer Remarks At Senate Judiciary Committee Introducing Myrna Pérez, His Recommendation To The Second Circuit Court Of Appeals

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today delivered remarks at the Senate Judiciary Committee introducing Myrna Pérez, his recommendation to be a Judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

Majority Leader Schumer, Senate Finance Committee Chair Wyden And Senator Booker Release Discussion Draft Of Cannabis Administration And Opportunity Act, Legislation To End The Federal Cannabis Prohibition And Unfair Targeting Of Communities Of Color

— Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) today released a discussion draft of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, proposed legislation that would help put an end to the unfair targeting and treatment of communities of color by removing cannabis from the federal list of controlled substances and empowering states to implement their own cannabis laws.… 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

Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Advancing President Biden’s Nominee To Lead The Bureau Of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging his colleagues in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to support the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Importance Of Passing Both The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework And Budget Reconciliation Legislation

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the importance of passing both the bipartisan infrastructure framework and the budget resolution with reconciliation instructions before the Senate leaves for August recess. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Top Moody’s Economist Mark Zandi’s New Report That Concludes That Passing Both The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework And The Reconciliation Bill Is Essential For Our Economy

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding economist Mark Zandi’s new report that concluded that the two bills will “lift productivity and labor force growth” and “address the long running skewing of the income and wealth distribution.” Mr. Zandi also concluded that Republicans’ stated concerns about inflation are “misplaced” and “overdone”. You can view the report here. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:… more...

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