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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...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria making landfall on Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria was one of the worst natural disasters in the island’s history, killing almost 3,000 people: “It is...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the Senate’s refusal yesterday to divert military construction funding to pay for President Trump’s border wall, provisions in the continuing resolution that will increase oversight of funds in...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today in a statement on the Senate floor announced that Senate Republicans have finally relented to Democrats’ pressure and taken a step in the right direction by agreeing to add $250 million dollars for election security funding to the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement following the report that there will be “dire outcomes” for military families if Republicans refuse to terminate the president’s emergency declaration and stop the Trump...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor on the need for a bipartisan appropriations process, the need for Republicans to join Democrats in voting to terminate the president’s emergency declaration, the harmful Trump administration decision to block...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke last night on the Senate floor joining more than twenty Senate Democrats to call on Republicans to pass meaningful gun safety legislation including universal background checks supported by 93% of Americans. Below are his remarks, which can...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Assistant Democratic Leader Patty Murray (D-WA), Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Senate Committee on Appropriations Vice Chairman...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the passing of journalist Cokie Roberts: “Cokie Roberts’s passing is a tremendous loss for her friends, her family, her profession, and her country. She was a pioneer who led the way for so many...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor calling for a bipartisan appropriations process and for Republicans to join Democrats in working to pass meaningful gun safety legislation including universal background checks supported by 93% of Americans. Below...

EDITORIAL BOARDS SAY THE PRESIDENT’S RAID OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION FUNDS – FOR THE WALL HE INSISTED MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR – THREATENS NATIONAL SECURITY AND HARMS THE MILITARY AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES. Bloomberg Editorial: Trump’s Wall Threatens the Nation’s Defenses....

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding Republicans’ proposal to take funding from the military to fund the president’s wall, urging the president to endorse House-passed bipartisan background check legislation and calling on the FCC...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, requesting that the FCC open a proceeding to review whether its legacy Section 214 authorizations of Chinese-state...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this joint statement after they spoke to President Donald Trump by phone this morning at their request.  The call marked 200 days since the Democratic House passed H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112, bipartisan...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor calling for a fair, bipartisan appropriations process, for Leader McConnell to move forward with a debate on H.R. 8, the bipartisan, House-passed universal background checks bill, and for the Trump...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today released the following statement opposing Steven Menashi’s nomination to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The Senators express deep concern with...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democrats today announced that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will investigate the Trump administration’s efforts to use eminent domain to “take the land” of private landowners by any means necessary to build an expensive,...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor, calling for good faith, bipartisan appropriations negotiations and for Leader McConnell to bring universal background check legislation to the floor for a vote. Below are his remarks, which can also be...