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Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging Senate action on the House-passed Heroes Act and condemning the months of needless, partisan delays by Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans. Leader Schumer also called for a serious bipartisan...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today appeared on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes and railed against the partisan, behind-closed-doors efforts of Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP to draft a lackluster bill to address the coronavirus pandemic and instead called for Senate...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, urging Senate action on the House-passed Heroes Act and condemning the months of needless delays by Senate Republicans. He also decried the Trump administration’s ill-intentioned efforts to shield COVID...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor, commemorating the life of civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis and discussing the ongoing fight for racial equality and justice. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:...

Brooklyn, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement on the passing of Congressman John Lewis:  “There are very few people who you can say truly changed the world for the better; John Lewis is certainly at the top of that...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) today released a letter...

Brooklyn, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today on a press call with AFSCME President Lee Saunders and front-line workers discussed the urgent need to pass at least $1 trillion in aid to states, cities, and towns upon return from the Senate’s two-week July recess: Since the COVID-19...

Glens Falls, N.Y.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today at a press conference in Glens Falls, NY responded to the Trump administration hiding CDC data on coronavirus cases from the public: “This crisis is the worst health crisis we've had in a hundred years since the Spanish Flu hit America...

Leader Schumer And Senate Democrats Today Announced The Economic Justice Act, A Major New Proposal To Make $350 Billion In Immediate And Long-Term Investments In Black Communities And Communities Of Color Senate Democrats’ Economic Justice Act Would Seek To Reprogram Hundreds Of Billions Of...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to weaken environmental standards: “President Trump is once again coddling corporate polluters instead of fighting for the public’s health and...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s commutation of his longtime friend’s prison sentence for felony crimes:“The American ideal of equal justice under the law is once again being undermined by a lawless...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP that no one, not even the president, is above the law:“No matter how much he wishes it to be true, President Trump is not king. In...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP that no one, not even the president, is above the law:“No matter how much he wishes it to be true, President Trump is not king. In...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democrats today wrote Attorney General William Barr, calling for the immediate, full implementation and enforcement of the Death in Custody Reporting Act.“One stark, staggering fact is that there exists no reliable metric on the number of law enforcement-related deaths that...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement after the Small Business Administration publicly released some data about businesses and non-profits that received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program:“While it’s a good start that the administration...

“If President Trump refuses to lead, then he should at the very least stop actively trying to sabotage the health care on which millions are more dependent than ever,” said Senator Carper (D-DE). “Today, our message is simple: stop attacking Delawareans and Americans’ life-saving care because...

The Protecting Renters From Evictions And Fees Act Would Extend And Expand The Eviction Moratorium For Renters That Ends On July 24, 2020 Unless ExtendedLawmakers Urge Congress To Pass Their Bill To Help Mitigate The Hardship Many Americans Continue To Or Will Experience Due To The...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today released following statement in response to the CBO projection of the long-term economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic:“Today’s CBO projection makes clear that absent additional action from Congress, millions of...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement following a classified Gang of 8 briefing on reports of Russian bounties on U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan:“Force protection is a primary purpose of intelligence.  It should have the...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the need for representation for D.C. residents and condemned Senate Republicans’ reckless denigration of the working people of the District of Columbia as not “real people.” Senator Schumer also...