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Albany, N.Y. – Following Majority Leader Schumer’s Relentless Advocacy, Feds Will Invest $825 Million To Establish Albany NanoTech As Headquarters for R&D Key To Chips, Transforming It To Power Next Gen Of Semiconductors. The NSTC, A Major Piece Of Schumer’s CHIPS & Science Law, Will Bolster...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the death of Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar.                                                                                                 “Sinwar has the blood of countless innocents in Israel and...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), following a morning at his synagogue in Brooklyn, released the following statement marking one year since Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack against Israel: Today, we observe one year since October 7th, a day that will go down in infamy, the...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement condemning the Iranian ballistic missile attack against Israel. “I have been briefed by senior U.S. and Israeli officials on Iran’s attack against Israel and will continue to monitor developments in...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement after an Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. “Hezbollah has the blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands. The world is safer and better off without Nasrallah’s terrorism and...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor before the Senate successfully voted to avoid an unnecessary government shutdown. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks: Tonight, the American people can sleep easier knowing we have avoided an unnecessary...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke at a press conference with Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NY), House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) to introduce legislation to extend vital ACA subsidies passed in the Inflation Reduction...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor as the Senate prepares to depart for recess in October, and reflected on Senate Democrats’ accomplishments over the last two years, including confirming over 210 federal judges, passing a landmark national...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke the Senate floor on reaching a bipartisan agreement to pass the government funding bill today without poison pill amendments, ensuring American families will not face the disruptions of an unnecessary government shutdown....

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on reaching a crucial agreement to pass the government funding bill tomorrow without amendments, ensuring American families will not face the disruptions of an unnecessary government shutdown. Below are...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the devastating impact of MAGA Republicans’ abortion laws, including the death of a Georgia woman, and laid out Senate Democrats’ efforts to act on legislation to prevent tragedies like this from...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the need for bipartisan action to avoid a government shutdown. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Both parties in both chambers continue the work to avoiding a...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor condemning the hard-right for their continued undermining of reproductive rights, warning that their agenda—including abortion bans and harmful proposals from Project 2025—poses a serious threat to women's...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor after Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan, bicameral funding agreement, and urged his colleagues to reject partisan demands and continue working in good faith to avoid a government shutdown. Below...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement after Congress reached a bipartisan funding agreement following days of negotiations, and urged both sides to continue working in good faith to avoid a government shutdown. “Over the past 4 days,...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor to honor Hispanic Heritage Month. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: I’d like to wish my colleagues and Americans everywhere a happy Hispanic Heritage Month, which began on...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the need to avoid a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Yesterday afternoon, to the surprise of virtually no one, Speaker...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement after the House partisan CR failed, emphasizing that with only days left, urgent bipartisan action is needed to avert a government shutdown. “For weeks, Speaker Johnson pursued a partisan ploy...

Yesterday was a sad day in the Senate as Republicans – for the second time this year – blocked legislation to protect families’ access to IVF. By voting against IVF, Republicans confirmed many Americans’ worst fear: Project 2025 is alive and well when it comes to reproductive rights. Senate...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on former president Donald Trump insisting that he will reverse the cap on state and local tax deduction that he signed into law in 2017. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed...