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After Hedge Fund Known For Gutting Local Newspapers And Slashing Jobs Fails To Answer Key Questions About Their Takeover Bid Of Gannett, Schumer Requests Assistance From Federal Regulators At DOJ & PBGC On The Potential Antitrust And Pension Implications Of Such An Acquisition By MNG Enterprises & Alden Global Capital
April 12, 2019In New Letters, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Seeks Details From The Department Of Justice And Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation On MNG Enterprises & Alden Global Capital’s - Known As “The Destroyer Of Newspapers” - Unsolicited Bid To Acquire Gannett. In Response To Previous Letter From Senator Schumer, MNG Provided More Spin Than Substance And Did Not Fully Answer Critical Questions Including Details Related To Newsroom Staffing And Addressing Potential Regulatory more...
Schumer And Leahy Introduce Bill To Provide Assistance To All Disaster-Impacted Areas, Including the Midwest, Southeast, And Puerto Rico
April 11, 2019Schumer-Leahy Amendment Is Yet Another Opportunity For Senate Republicans To Support Disaster Assistance For All Americans And Reject President Trump's Refusal To Support Citizens In Puerto Rico. Washington, D.C., (Thursday, April 11, 2019) - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday introduced a comprehensive, emergency disaster supplemental appropriations package that would provide relief to all American more...
Top House And Senate Democrats Write To AG Barr About Expectation That Congress Receive Full Mueller Report
April 11, 2019Washington, D.C. - Today, top House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr following his testimony before the House and Senate appropriations committees reasserting their expectation for the full, unredacted Mueller report, along with the underlying evidence, to be provided to Congress. The letter, signed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senate Judiciary Ranking more...
Schumer Statement Following Meeting With Nominee For Interior Secretary David Bernhardt
April 10, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after his meeting with nominee for Interior Secretary David Bernhardt: "In our meeting, I pressed Mr. Bernhardt on whether he would open up waters for drilling off of states opposed to offshore drilling, including New York, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and North and South Carolina. Mr. Bernhardt refused to guarantee that he wouldn't go against the will of these states when it comes to offshore drilling and is more...
VIDEO RELEASE: No Healthcare Plan? That’s Not What President Trump Repeatedly Promised Americans
April 10, 2019President Trump Has Promised His Healthcare Plan Is Right Around The Corner For Years Now - But He Has Always Failed To Deliver An Actual Plan To Improve Americans’ Health Care. The Trump Administration Is Supporting A Lawsuit That Would End The Healthcare Law, Increasing Costs And Leaving Up To 133 Million Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions, Older Americans, And Women At Risk For Higher Health Care Costs Or Denial Of Coverage Altogether. Schumer: Republicans’ Real Healthcare Plan Is All more...
What They’re Saying: Editorials Across The Country Slam President Trump’s Actions To Undermine Our Health Care System
April 10, 2019Tampa Bay Times (FL): Why The Affordable Care Act Should Be Saved, Not Killed. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO): Trump, Hawley Bid To Kill Obamacare Endangers America's Health - And The GOP's. Houston Chronicle (TX): Foiled Again. Trump's Got Nothing On Obamacare Replacement. Washington Post Editorial: Trump's New Attempt To Undo Obamacare Is Senseless. "President Trump humiliated the Justice Department this week, not with something he tweeted but in a move that could be far more more...
Schumer Statement On House Passage Of Legislation To Reinstate Net Neutrality And Senate GOP’s Refusal to Act
April 10, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement regarding the House passage of legislation to reinstate net neutrality and the Senate GOP's refusal to act: "The House's vote to reinstate net neutrality reflects the will of millions of Americans who made their voices heard that they don't want their costs of using the Internet to go up unfairly, they do not want their freedom to be constricted, and that if they should decide to start up a business, they more...
Never-Ending Chaos Continues To Define President Trump’s Administration
April 9, 2019“All of this chaos has one source, one source only: The President of the United States and his erratic, vacillating attitude towards policy and personnel. Across a broad spectrum of issues, his policies are so extreme that even good-faith nominees eventually face a choice: leave the administration or be consumed by the quicksand of the Trump swamp. I hope that the president or some of the people around him will realize that his administration is far from a fine-tuned machine - it’s a slow more...
Senate Republicans Are Planning To Further Break The Senate To Speed Through President Trump’s Radical And Unqualified Nominees
April 9, 2019As Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the Senate floor yesterday: "The Senate needs to do its job. We should not be a conveyor belt for President Trump's radical and unqualified judicial nominees. So let's call this for what it is. This rules change is yet another power grab by Leader McConnell, the Republican Party, and its rightwing allies. It is a transparent attempt to further politicize our courts by packing them with President Trump's hard-right, ideological, and too-often more...
Schumer Calls For Outgoing Director Of U.S. Secret Service To Testify Before Congress On Potential Security Vulnerabilities At Mar-a-Lago And Other Counterintelligence And National Security Threats
April 8, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement regarding the departure of U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex" Alles, calling for Alles to testify before Congress on potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago and other counterintelligence and national security threats: "The outgoing Secret Service director must testify before Congress as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago involving a Chinese national more...
Schumer Statement On The Resignation Of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
April 7, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released this statement following the resignation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen: "When even the most radical voices in the administration aren't radical enough for President Trump, you know he's completely lost touch with the American more...
This Week In Trump’s Swamp: The President’s Nominations Are Plagued By Scandals And Lack Of Qualifications
April 5, 2019Washington Post: After Hundreds Of Crashes, This Britax Jogging Stroller Faced Recall. Then Trump Appointees Stepped In. NBC News: Donors To The Trump Inaugural Committee Got Ambassador Nominations. But Are They Qualified? The Guardian: Trump Fed Pick Was Held In Contempt For Failing To Pay Ex-Wife Over $300,000. Despite his constant campaign promises to "drain the swamp," President Trump has continued to nominate individuals to powerful administration posts with questionable more...
Schumer, Cotton, Brown, Rubio, Menendez, Toomey, And Shaheen Introduce First-Ever Targeted Fentanyl Sanctions Bill To Hold Chinese Government Accountable On Their Commitment To Crack Down On Manufacturers And Traffickers Of Lethal Opioids Ravaging U.S. Communities
April 4, 2019Following Chinese Regulators Announcing That A Wider Range Of Fentanyl Derivatives Would Be Declared Controlled Substances in China on May 1st.; Bipartisan Group Of Senators Introduce Sanctions Legislation That Would Pressure China to Enforce This New Law, Direct The Administration To Identify Foreign Traffickers Of Opioids On An Annual Basis, Authorize New Funding To Law Enforcement And Intelligence Agencies Dramatic Rise In Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Represents The Newest And Most more...
After Arrest Of Chinese National With Malware In Hand At Mar-A-Lago, Senators Schumer, Feinstein, And Warner Urge FBI To Immediately Assess National Security Risks At Trump Properties
April 3, 2019In Light Of Recent Reports Of Arrest Of Chinese National Yujin Zhang, Who Was Apprehended By Secret Service After Making False Statements To Enter Mar-A-Lago While Carrying A Thumb Drive Containing Malware, Senators Schumer, Feinstein, And Warner Urge FBI To Assess Risks To Classified Information And Secure Areas Yujin Zhang Stated She Was Invited To Attend A Non-Existent Event By An Associate Of Li "Cindy" Yang - Who Congressional Intelligence And Judiciary Committees Had Previously more...
Schumer Statement After The House Passed A Resolution To Reverse The Trump Administration’s Legal Assault On Americans’ Health Care
April 3, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after the House passed a resolution to reverse the Trump administration's legal assault on Americans' health care: "If Senate Republicans and Leader McConnell truly want to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions, they would follow suit and pass the Senate Democrats' resolution to reverse the Justice Department's decision without more...
Vice Chairman Leahy And Leader Schumer Introduce Path Forward For Disaster Supplemental – New Amendment Provides New Funding For Midwestern Disasters & Restores Certain Funding For Puerto Rico, Other Territories
April 2, 2019Washington D.C. (Tuesday, April 2, 2019) - Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Tuesday introduced a substitute to the emergency disaster supplemental to provide a path forward to resolving the current impasse on the disaster funding bill. The Leahy-Schumer amendment totals $16.7 billion and includes $2.5 billion in new funding for disaster stricken communities in the Southeast and Midwest and restores more...
Following Trump DOJ Decision To Side With Ruling That Would Strike Down Our Entire Healthcare System, All 47 Senate Democrats Introduce Resolution To Reverse DOJ, To Save Pre-Existing Condition Protections And Health Care For Millions
April 2, 2019The Trump DOJ Recently Announced They Side With A Texas Federal Judge's Ruling That Deems Current Health Care Law Unconstitutional- Senate Dem Resolution Would Reverse DOJ's Position, Siding With Keeping Current Health Care Law Intact DOJ's Decision Is Expansion Of Its Previous Refusal To Defend Our Current Health Care Law And The Latest Example Of The Administration's All-Out Assault On Healthcare System; Would Cause Prescription Drug Costs To Soar And Leave Up To 133 Million Americans With more...
New Schumer Op-Ed In The New York Daily News: What Trump Owes Puerto Rico: Senate Republicans And The President Have An Obligation To An American Island Devastated By Hurricanes
April 1, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer published the following op-ed in The New York Daily News to outline his view of how President Trump and Senate Republicans have an obligation to provide necessary aid to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The op-ed can be found here and below. Schumer: What Trump owes Puerto Rico: Senate Republicans and the president have an obligation to an American island devastated by hurricanes By Chuck SchumerMarch 31American children more...
Schumer Statement On Sen. McConnell’s Plan To Change Senate Rules And Cede Authority To The Trump Administration
March 28, 2019Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement regarding Senator Mitch McConnell's plan to change Senate rules and cede authority to the Trump administration: "Senator McConnell's approach has always been to manipulate Senate rules when it helps him and then change Senate rules when the tables turn; this is just another step in his effort to limit the rights of the minority and cede authority to the more...
In Wake Of Senate Republicans’ Refusal To Take Action On Climate Crisis, Schumer Launches New Senate Democratic Special Committee On The Climate Crisis
March 27, 2019In the wake of Senate Republicans’ refusal to take action on climate change and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) refusal to schedule or allow for a vote on the resolution to establish a bipartisan select committee on the climate crisis, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today established a new Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. The committee—comprised of ten Democratic senators— will be tasked with investigating, holding hearings, and issuing findings on the economic and national security consequences of climate change and how acting on the climate crisis presents significant opportunities for jobs, public health, and the economy. More specifically, the committee will work with environmental, financial, and national security experts to find solutions for communities impacted by climate change and provide oversight on special interests that foster climate denial. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) will chair the committee, and members include Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ed Markey (D-MA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV), and Tina Smith (D-MN). more...
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