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Schumer Announces Gateway Tunnel Project To Move Immediately Into Action-Packed Engineering Phase & Construction Within Year Senator Worked For Years To Piece Together The Fed Funds To Replace the More Than Century-Old Tunnels, Including Passing The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law; Vital...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the recent Supreme Court decisions. Below is Senator Schumer’s statement: “After a multi-decade, special interest-funded effort to reshape the federal judiciary,...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court decision in Biden v. Nebraska that blocks student loan aid to millions of Americans. Below is Senator Schumer’s statement: “This disappointing and cruel...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. Below is Senator Schumer’s statement: “Today’s ruling by the MAGA-right activist wing of the Supreme Court is...

New York, N.Y. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina. Below is...

New York, NY – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced that His Excellence Isaac Herzog, President of the State of Israel, will address a Joint Meeting of Congress on...

New York, NY – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper to reject the “independent state legislature theory” and respect our constitutional system of checks and balances. Below is...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor in advance of a bipartisan vote to ratify the tax convention with Chile. Senator Schumer met with the Foreign Minister of Chile, Alberto van Klaveren Stork, and the Chilean Ambassador to the...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the Republican CRA to overrule the ATF’s pistol brace rule. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks. America’s tragic epidemic of gun violence has been made worse by easy access to...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the importance of ratifying the U.S. Chile Tax Convention, a vote on which is expected later today. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: For decades, Chile...

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe to discuss his SAFE Innovation Framework for AI and the success of recent legislative initiatives passed by Senate Democrats. Below is a transcript of the interview. Joe Scarborough: Let's...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor to welcome the Prime Minister of India and stress the importance of democratic values. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Later this afternoon, I’ll...

Washington, D.C.–Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding his upcoming meeting with General CQ Brown, the nominee for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Later this...

Washington, D.C.–Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the launch of his SAFE Innovation Framework for AI and the upcoming AI Insight Forums. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Very soon, AI will reshape...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to speak on SAFE Innovation in the AI Age and outline his vision for how the Senate can harness AI’s potential and protect our society from its potential harms....

VIDEO Today, Senate Democrats have hit a major milestone, confirming President Biden’s 100th District Court judicial nominee: Natasha Merle to be District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Senate Democrats have made confirming President Biden’s judicial nominations a top...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor laying out the vital importance of a speech he will deliver tomorrow morning at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on how Congress can and should act on artificial intelligence....

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the bipartisan effort to ratify the tax treaty between the United States and Chile. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here: Tomorrow, the Senate will vote to...

Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on Senate votes this week to confirm the nomination of Julie Rikelman to serve as a Circuit Court Judge for the First Circuit and the confirmation of Natasha Merle to be a District Court Judge...

Choudhury, An Experienced Litigator and National Expert in Civil Rights, Is Making History As The First Bangladeshi American And First Muslim American Woman—And Only The Second Muslim American Ever—To Serve On The Federal Bench Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader...