Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Colleagues To Support David Prouty’s Nomination To Continue Serving On The NLRB

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor urging his Senate colleagues to confirm David Prouty, so he can continue serving on the National Labor Relations Board. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Today, the Senate HELP Committee will consider the nomination of David Prouty to continue serving on the National Labor Relations Board.

From his time working for the Major League Baseball Players Association to his tenure as General Counsel for UNITE HERE and for an SEIU local that represents 175,000 workers, Prouty has spent a lifetime defending the rights of organized labor across the country.

For the past five years, Prouty has been a force for reason, a voice for workers on the NLRB, even as Republicans tried to undermine that vital institution, hurt working families, and hurt the unions that represent them.

Between August 2025 and January 2026, Mr. Prouty served as the only sitting member of the NLRB after Trump’s unprecedented purge of the Board’s only other Democratic member, a great member, Gwynne Wilcox, and the expiration of the chair’s term.

Trump’s gutting of the NLRB paralyzed it for the better part of a year until it regained a quorum.

While I’m pleased Prouty was nominated for another term, Trump continues to try to undermine our workers and their right to organize by trying to stack the NLRB with partisan loyalists committed to shielding employers from accountability.

I urge my colleagues to support Prouty’s nomination so that workers have someone who will speak up for them on the NLRB for years to come.

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