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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...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor marking the 18th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. Eighteen years ago today, on a cloudless Tuesday morning, my city, our country,...

President Trump promised, again and again, that Mexico would pay for the vanity project that is his expensive, ineffective southern border wall. Instead, American families are paying the steep price, as the president has diverted much-needed funds intended for schools, military facilities, child...

EDITORIAL BOARDS ARE CALLING ON PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL TO STOP BLOCKING UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECK LEGISLATION SUPPORTED BY MORE THAN 90% OF AMERICANS Washington Post Editorial: No, Sens. McConnell and Blunt. You’re the Ones Who Need to Step Up. “The...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke at the congressional ceremony to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first-recorded forced arrival of enslaved African people. Below are his remarks, which can also be found here. First, let me thank Karen Bass and the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the report that the Republicans’ healthcare sabotage has resulted in millions fewer people with health insurance coverage and skyrocketing costs for American families: “The...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after President Trump fired National Security Advisor John Bolton: “Today’s action by the president is just the latest example of his government-by-chaos approach and his rudderless national...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor calling for a fair, cooperative, and bipartisan appropriations process, the need for a debate on the House-passed, bipartisan background checks bill, and the opportunity Republicans have today at their...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in a floor statement today said Senate Democrats will soon introduce a joint resolution to terminate President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration that he has used to steal funding from 127 military projects in an attempt to fund...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke on the Senate floor regarding President Trump’s summer of division and discord, foreign policy blunders, and missed opportunities to help the middle class; calling on Leader McConnell and President Trump to help pass House-passed...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to the report that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross threatened to fire employees at NOAA after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today sent a letter to President Trump urging him to publicly support the House-passed, Bipartisan Background Checks Act, H.R.8., noting his recent show of support for stronger...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ), U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT), U.S. Senate...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued the following statement after President Trump’s Department of Defense outlined the programs and projects it plans to defund in order to pay for President Trump’s unnecessary wall, defying...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after reports that the gunman who killed seven people in Odessa, Texas purchased his murder weapon at a private sale, bypassing a federal background check: “If the House-passed background checks bill...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper notified Congressional leaders that the Pentagon will reprogram $3.6 billion in funding intended for military construction projects for our troops to...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today in a statement warned Chinese President Xi Jinping that the world is watching how China responds to protests in Hong Kong and called on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to bring up the Hong Kong Rights and Democracy Act for debate and...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today released the following statement after the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would implement a new illogical and devastating rule to roll back regulations on methane emissions: “This...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member  Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Senator Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senator Brian...

In my office in Washington, I keep photos given to me by the parents of children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school next to pictures of my wife and two daughters. Those photos are a searing reminder of the tens of thousands of American lives lost each year by gun violence, and the moral...