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Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer briefly spoke today on the Senate floor regarding Senate Republicans’ efforts to hide the truth by blocking testimony from key witnesses and documents in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. Below are Senator...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked testimony from key witnesses and documents in the Senate impeachment trial:“To not allow witnesses or documents in an impeachment trial is a grand tragedy, one of the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today at a press conference ahead of the Senate consideration of witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Good morning,...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s latest proposal to gut Medicaid and take away health care coverage from millions of Americans: “President Trump has once again broken his...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today at a press conference ahead of Senators’ questions in the Senate impeachment trial. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Yesterday, as you know, the president's counsel ended their defense of the...

Washington, D.C.— U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, along with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, Immigration Subcommittee Ranking Member Dick Durbin, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold...

Washington, D.C.—Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement on an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan ahead of the Trump administration plan release:"We need a plan that will improve the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Any such plan must start...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today at a press conference ahead of today’s Senate impeachment trial proceedings. Sen. Schumer urged his Republican colleagues to support calling for testimony under oath from former National Security Advisor John Bolton, Mick...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today delivered the following remarks following the first day of opening arguments from President Trump’s legal defense team: Sen. Schumer: Now, the first point that I would like to make is that the president's counsel did something...

Washington, D.C. – Led by United States Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), thirteen Members of Congress have written the Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) for Puerto Rico, calling for it to amend the fiscal plan for the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today at a press conference ahead of the fourth day of Senate impeachment trial proceedings. Sen. Schumer urged his Republican colleagues to rise to the occasion and do their duty to the Constitution, to their country, and to seek the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today at a press conference ahead of today’s Senate impeachment trial proceedings. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: The president said in an interview yesterday at Davos that he will take a...

“The public is understanding how unfair Senator McConnell’s trial rules are and Republican Senators are beginning to tell him to change them. The real test will be if they pressure Senator McConnell to allow witnesses and documents. “For all of the name-calling and fingerprinting...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today on the Senate floor ahead of the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. In his remarks, Senator Schumer referenced Senator McConnell’s original impeachment...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement in response to Senator McConnell’s Senate impeachment trial resolution proposal:“Senator McConnell repeatedly promised Senators, the public and the press that his rules for the trial would be the same as...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today spoke at a press conference regarding the Senate impeachment trial. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:As everyone knows, we’ve all been sworn in by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke today on the Senate floor regarding the transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate and the swearing in of Senators as a court of impeachment. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement in opposition to USMCA because it does not address climate change: “Despite the fact that it includes very good labor provisions, I am voting against USMCA because it does not address climate...

Washington, D.C.— Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement in response to the GAO opinion that President Trump broke the law by withholding aid to Ukraine: “The GAO opinion makes clear that the documents we requested in our letter last month are even more...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer today at a press conference discussed the so-called “phase-one” U.S.-China trade agreement, which fails to address many of China’s predatory trade and industrial policies, and called for the president to be tough on China. Below are Senator...