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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the September jobs report  from the Department of Labor: “Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor shows a continuing slump in the manufacturing sector and that wage growth was...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., today referred the findings of the report, The NRA and Russia: How a Tax-Exempt Organization Became a Foreign Asset to the IRS and requested the agency investigate...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the court ruling partially upholding the FCC’s order to end net neutrality after Leader McConnell refused to bring House-passed legislation that would have preserved net neutrality to the...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the report that President Trump told two senior Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that he was not concerned about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential...

The House and Senate have a responsibility to conduct thorough oversight and pass legislation designed to improve the lives of the American people. But unfortunately, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard, refusing to take action...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) report stemming from an 18-month investigation into the NRA’s relationship with Russia and potential violations of U.S. tax...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor after the House Intelligence Committee made public the declassified portion of the whistleblower complaint this morning, the need for the Senate to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open through the...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democrats, led by Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), yesterday filed paperwork that will force a Senate vote to protect people with pre-existing conditions from another attempt by the Trump Administration to gut the Affordable Care Act. Senate Democrats filed a...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer made the following statement today after reviewing the whistleblower complaint provided to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. “Having...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) today issued the following joint statement after the Senate passed their Motion to Instruct the NDAA Conference Committee to retain and strengthen an amendment from Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) to the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today gave the following remarks at a press conference on the House’s impeachment inquiry and the Senate’s passage of a resolution to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration. Senator Schumer also discussed...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the need for Republicans to vote with Democrats to oppose the president’s outrageous national emergency declaration, which the Trump administration is using to divert funds from military construction...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the House of Representative’s formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. Last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of...

Adoption Of Schumer Resolution Means Every Republican Senator Endorses The Whistleblower Report Being Immediately Provided To The Senate And House Intelligence Committees Washington, D.C. – The United States Senate today adopted Leader Schumer’s resolution calling for the Inspector...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the need to reject the nomination of Daniel Jorjani to serve as Solicitor at the Department of the Interior. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. Later today, the Senate will vote on...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding this week’s vote to terminate the president’s national emergency, which he has used to steal funds from our military to build a border wall.  Below are his remarks, which can also be...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor announcing his plan to request unanimous consent of the Senate to pass a resolution calling for the whistleblower complaint to be provided to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. Below are his remarks, which...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the Senate’s duty to investigate the intelligence community whistleblower complaint. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. Over the weekend, details emerged about President...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor calling for Republicans to join Democrats to defend the Constitution and vote to terminate President Trump’s emergency declaration this week. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. Again on...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding the Republican majority take immediate action to stop President Trump from withholding an “urgent” and “credible” Intelligence...