Senate Democrats Set An IVF Trap For Trump And The GOP
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters that Senate Republicans will have to go on the record with their position on IVF in a vote being held today.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters that Senate Republicans will have to go on the record with their position on IVF in a vote being held today.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Democrats are to pass a bump stock ban, but it will be up to Republicans to supply additional votes.
Twenty-three Senate Democrats have written to Attorney General Merrick Garland to request that the DOJ investigate the oil industry for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Democrats got Speaker Mike Johnson to agree to the same topline spending number that former speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to, which is a setback for MAGA.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has announced that the Rules Committee has acted on a bipartisan resolution that will allow 350 military promotions currently being blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to be confirmed.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) celebrated the milestone of the Senate having confirmed 50 Black judges to the federal bench under President Biden.
Speaker Mike Johnson got a big reality check from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who took to the Senate floor to reject Johnson’s attempt to ransom Israel aid for tax cuts for billionaires.
Sen., Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) passed away overnight in Washington, DC at the age of 90 and tributes are pouring in from Democrats.
Majority Leader Schumer said that Senate Democrats and Republicans worked through the weekend and came to an agreement on a short-term CR to keep the government open. Meanwhile, Speaker McCarthy continues to flounder.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will be looking to pass a short-term continuing resolution on Tuesday, if McCarthy passes the resolution in the House, it will cost him his job.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that voters in swing states are more concerned about their own lives, and don’t care about Hunter Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) have introduced a bipartisan amendment to the NDAA that would declassify government UFO records.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out conservative Supreme Court Justices for taking gifts from billionaires while killing student loan relief.
Majority Leader Schumer and Democratic Leader Jeffries made it clear that Democrats aren’t budging on their demand for a clean debt limit bill
Chuck Schumer urged reform, pointing out that “litigants can now effectively choose which judge will hear their cases, undermining free and fair trials.”
A group of Democratic senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Raphael Warnock have requested a DOJ investigation into the expulsion of two black Tennessee state representatives by state House Republicans.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told House Republicans that their gift to big oil energy bill is dead on arrival.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is blaming Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson and demanding that Fox News pull the plug on Carlson’s 1/6 disinformation campaign.
At a press conference, Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) said that House Republicans have refused to show their plan and have instead offered gibberish like cutting the ‘woke’ agenda.
At a press conference, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reminded Republicans that three spy balloons flew over the US while Trump was president and none were shot down.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the GOP’s national sales plan devastating and vowed to kill it.
Senate Republicans have been complaining about problems with the nation’s air travel system, but they have been blocking Biden’s nominee to run the FAA since March of 2022.
As House Republicans get set to vote on two anti-abortion bills, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told them that their bills are doomed in the Senate.
Any hopes that House Republicans had of provoking a government shutdown and an economic crisis when they took back the majority vanished with the bipartisan government funding bill.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) made it clear during a press conference that he intends to isolate MAGA Republicans in the next Congress.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday that he will reach out to non-MAGA Senate Republicans, but Democrats won’t sacrifice their principles.
The Secret Service received a tip about a threat to shoot Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on 1/6 but they sat on it for an hour and did nothing.
Rachel Maddow said while interviewing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that we are entering an era of Republicans declaring war on law enforcement.
Senate Democrats delivered a major portion of the Biden agenda and added even more accomplishments to Joe Biden’s consequential presidency.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate will start voting at 5 PM ET and pass the PACT Act tonight.
Mitch McConnell was caught completely by surprise by Manchin and Schumer’s deal that was set up in secret basement negotiation.
The Build Back Better deal a.k.a. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin reached is better than anyone could have imagined and is a big victory by Democrats for the American people.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) described Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as unhinged for wanting to overturn same-sex marriage.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the Senate would vote very soon on a bipartisan bill to lower the cost of insulin.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Fox News for treachery and cowardice and said that it seems like they aren’t real news.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate will begin the process of voting on gun legislation tomorrow.
Tucker Carlson wanted to “debate” Chuck Schumer on his Fox News show. Schumer declined his offer but told the Fox Host to stop promoting replacement theory.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called out Fox and Tucker Carlson for spreading Great Replacement Theory.
Rand Paul ignored appeals from both Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell to stop blocking emergency aid to Ukraine.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he has no problem with peaceful protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Republicans that he is about to make it get real in the Senate on abortion rights.
Under Chuck Schumer’s leadership, America is seeing that Mitch McConnell was the problem, not the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Senate would put the finishing touches on the bipartisan postal reform bill this week.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that he and a group of Senators are working on a final draft of a bill to reform the nation’s federal cannabis laws.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that talks between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) will continue, hurting plans to pass the “Build Back Better” plan before the holiday recess. Schumer did not offer a timeline in his remarks on the Senate floor. “The president requested more time to continue his…
Uncle Joe – also known as the President of these United States, signed Democrats’ once-in-a-century, $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Sen. Chuck Schumer has clearly had enough of GOP voting rights obstruction, so he said Democrats will look at alternative paths to pass the bill alone.
In an interview with CNN, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said she has not ruled out challenging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for his Senate seat in the future. “I know it drives everybody nuts, but the way that I really feel about this and the way that I really approach my politics and my…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the Senate will make the legalization of marijuana a legislative priority. Marijuana is currently a Schedule I banned drug and more than 40,000 Americans have been imprisoned due to cannabis-related offenses. Legalization would mark a significant step to reform elsewhere. “I am the first majority leader to say…
Writing in a “Dear Colleague” letter, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) made clear that Democrats are “ready to expeditiously fill” Supreme Court vacancies as Democrats also weigh a bipartisan infrastructure bill and a budget resolution. “Alongside these crucial legislative priorities, the Senate will continue to confirm more of President Biden’s highly qualified judicial nominees. ……
One of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ signature issues when running for president in 2016 and 2020 was single-payer healthcare; i.e. “Medicare-for-All.” Most countries offer healthcare as a human right to all its citizens. The United States is an outlier. Of the 25 wealthiest nations, we are the only one that fails to do this. Thanks to…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced he supports repealing the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq, the first time he has expressed support for repealing the authorization. Schumer said repealing the authorization “will eliminate the danger of a future administration reaching back into the legal dust bin to use it…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says the Senate will push forward and work on two key bills despite the actions of an uncooperative Republican Party sending the Senate into a rare Friday session. The Senate is currently working on a measure to combat China as well as a measure to authorize the creation of…
Chuck Schumer has had to deal with Mitch McConnell for a very long time. Starting n 2014, McConnell and the Republicans held the senate. The idea of negotiating with the Kentucky senator was essentially a joke. McConnell used his power to shut down a supreme court nomination and push through a tax cut for the…
Speaking at a Rules Committee meeting on an election reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) criticized Republicans for backing former President Donald Trump’s “big lie that the election was stolen.” “Unfortunately, the big lie is spreading like a cancer among Republicans. It’s enveloping and consuming the Republican Party, in both houses of Congress,”…
During the Trump presidency, Republicans had a very slim majority. And they used that majority to push through the things they wanted. Taxes were cut and Supreme Court Justices were placed with no care about bi-partisanship. The shoe is on the other foot now as Democrats have a narrow majority with Kamala Harris as the…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dismissed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s (R-Ky.) threat to employ “scorched earth” tactics if Democrats successfully get rid of the filibuster. “We used to call the Senate, when he was in charge, the legislative graveyard,” Schumer told Stephen Colbert during an interview on The Late Show. “The House would send…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats are moving “full steam ahead” on Covid-19 relief even as the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins, pushing back against any assertion that his party can’t balance two priorities at once. “To the pundits who said we can’t do both at once, we say…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have reached a power-sharing deal that secures Democratic control over committees in the upper chamber. The announcement comes after several weeks of negotiations. Schumer said the organizing resolution will be passed later today. Negotiations were tense at the start, with significant outrage…
A few weeks ago, it seemed that Democrats might have the votes needed to convict Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial. Senators like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski seemed likely to vote against the 45th President. Mitch McConnell, then seemed like he might be willing to convict Trump as well. It doesn’t seem, however,…
Democrats knocked down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s attempt to protect the filibuster as part of the Senate’s power-sharing deal. McConnell (R-Ky.) had wanted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to include protecting the filibuster in any deal they agree to on how to organize the evenly-split Senate. “We’re not going to give him what…
Senate Democrats have re-elected Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to be the Senate’s Democratic leader. Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) have also ascended to leadership roles. Schumer has urged his Republican colleagues to break from President Donald Trump‘s claims that the election is fraudulent. Republican leaders in Congress should also do the…
Senate Democrats are calling for a delay in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett after Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) got COVID.
Senate Democrats have come up with a strategy that involves a series of delay tactics that will make life hell for McConnell and his majority.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called Trump the gravest threat to American democracy and blasted Senate Republicans for their silence.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) won’t make good on Democrats’ threat to expand the number of Supreme Court seats if they take back the White House and Senate following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Democrats are great about talking big, but we’ll see if he and…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of RBG should not be filled until there is a new president.
Chuck Schumer denounced Donald Trump in an animated speech from the Senate floor following the President’s claim that Coronavirus response is going well if you exclude the blue states. The Senate Minority Leader addressed Trump’s remarks on Thursday and called out the President’s apparent failure to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. “What a disgrace!” Schumer…
Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer want the Senate to create a special committee in advance of the November elections in order to guarantee their “security and legitimacy”. Schumer, a Democrat and Senate Minority Leader, joined the independent Vermont senator in writing a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Nothing is more fundamental to our…
Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer responded to Mitch McConnell’s pandemic relief bill by exposing it as a sham.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says a vote on coronavirus relief funds could happen sometime this week. McConnell did not specify what would be included in the relief measure, but said it would focus on health care, education, and the economy. In a statement, McConnell said the Senate will look over a “targeted proposal,…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had a simple and direct message to America, “Donald Trump has quit on you.”
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer called out Trump for abusing his power to cheat in the election by slowing down the mail.
Joe Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress have placed the blame for the latest unemployment figures squarely on Donald Trump. In separate statements, they harshly criticized the President’s response to the economic crisis. The Speaker of the House and Senate Minority Leader issued a joint statement on Friday following the July jobs report. The…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) slammed his Republican colleagues earlier today as Democrats and Republicans struggle to come to an agreement over coronavirus relief funds. “It’s in the middle of the week, and the Republican Party is so disorganized, chaotic and unprepared that they can barely cobble together a partisan bill in their own…
Pelosi and Schumer shredded Trump for planning parades and defending the Confederacy instead of protecting US troops from Russian bounties.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for US intelligence agencies to immediately brief the Senate about what Trump knew about Russia placing bounties on US troops.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to Trump demanding that he take down his fence and open up Lafayette Park to visitors.
Senate Democratic Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer vowed that Senate Democrats will fight like hell to pass sweeping reform to policing.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned that the jobs numbers were pumped up by stimulus money, and without more, it will collapse.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer tried to pass a resolution condemning Trump for using tear gas on protesters, but it was blocked by Mitch McConnell.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have preemptively requested President Donald Trump order flags on public buildings nationwide to fly at half-staff when the national death toll from the novel coronavirus reaches 100,000. The current death toll is 95,016, according to the most up-to-date statistics. The two legislators noted…
President Donald Trump attacked Senator Chuck Schumer on Friday and tried to goad Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez into challenging him. Schumer isn’t up for reelection until 2022. “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer was on a late night show using a false talking point over & over again. ‘We don’t have enough testing , he would repeat, when he…
Senator Chuck Schumer has warned Donald Trump that economic recovery won’t happen without proper Coronavirus testing. The New York Democrat slammed the President’s current plan. The Senate Minority Leader told MSNBC on Tuesday that Trump’s blueprint for testing wasn’t good enough. “You know the report they issued yesterday? It was pathetic. It didn’t have any…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to introduce a provision known in Washington as the “No PR Act” in the next coronavirus stimulus package to bar President Donald Trump from placing his name on any additional stimulus checks. The legislation “would prohibit the use of federal dollars toward any material that promotes Trump or…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explains how Democrats stood together and broke through McConnell and Trump’s obstruction to deliver a victory for small businesses.
A $2 trillion stimulus package deal was agreed to on Wednesday morning, ending an impasse between political parties and the White House on a much-needed relief bill to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Among other provisions , the deal includes substantial aid to frontline workers in the medical industry. It also gives $1,200 to every…
Democrats, Republicans, and the White House announced a deal in the early hours of Wednesday morning meant to give much-needed relief to American workers and businesses across the country affected by the economic downturns created by the coronavirus global pandemic. One provision could possibly annoy President Donald Trump somewhat, as it directly affects his corporate…
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blasted Mitch McConnell for sending the Senate home before voting on the coronavirus relief bill.
Chief Justice John Roberts has rebuked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for “threatening statements” against two conservative justices. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said, adding that the justices “will continue to…
Trump and Republicans are intentionally distorting Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s comments as the president called for Schumer to be impeached and arrested.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called out Senate Republicans who let Putin win because they were too scared to stand up to Trump.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has requested an IG investigation into Donald Trump and William Barr’s abuse of power at the DOJ.
During his Super Bowl interview with Sean Hannity, Trump said that he couldn’t work with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer because they lie.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer said that there are 10 to 12 Republican Senators in play who could vote for witnesses at Trump’s trial.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Bolton brought the Trump cover-up out in the open, and Senate Republicans will part of it if they block witnesses.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) where he blasted Republicans for fearing and not wanting to know the truth about Trump and Ukraine.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said that the public pressure being put on GOP Senators is forcing Mitch McConnell to make changes.
Mitch McConnell asked Chuck Schumer to stack all of his amendments for a single vote, Schumer said no and refused to allow McConnell to speed up the impeachment trial.
Democratic House impeachment managers and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer have used McConnell’s sham trial against him to make their impeachment case.