Chuck Schumer

This wasn't just an obscure and damaging policy—it was an assault on the places where generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, fished, camped, and connected with the natural beauty of our country.

The last minute postponement was just a dereliction of their duty to let the Congress know.

I'm here to say that Democrats are going to fight like hell to strip these cruel provisions from the Republican bill.

These attacks are also devastating our economy. With fewer reproductive healthcare protections, fewer women are participating in the workforce.

The high court's June 2022 ruling will go down in history as one of the worst, most harmful, most regressive decisions in modern history.

No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war.

President Trump violated the War Powers Act when he bombed Iran.

It was nothing short of an assault on the system of checks and balances that has anchored this nation since its founding, and a brazen attempt crown Trump king.

Senate Republicans tried to write Donald Trump’s contempt for the courts into law — gutting judicial enforcement, defying the Constitution, and bulldozing the very rule of law that forms our democracy.

No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy.

The Trump administration should not make the same mistake it made this weekend by launching strikes without giving any details to Congress.

No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into something as consequential as war with erratic threats and no strategy.

We will not rubberstamp military intervention that puts the United States at risk.

The MAGA Supreme Court majority seems to have forgotten one of its jobs is to protect Americans from discrimination. The Republicans' cruel crusade against trans Americans infringes on the rights of parents and the rights of kids. Once…

Cuts to Medicaid are deeper and more devastating than even the Republican House’s disaster of a bill.

What the senior senator from Utah posted after the shooting was reckless and beneath the dignity of his office.

I was deeply disappointed and sickened to see a member of this chamber use the tragedy in Minnesota to take cheap political shots.

The kind of rhetoric that we hear some in the hard right use.

What happened last week to Senator Padilla was beyond the pale. I don't care who you are or what your views are, there is never justification for Federal agents to put their hands on a Member of the U.S. Senate, throw him onto the ground…

It's part of a troubling pattern, a wave of political violence that threatens the very foundation of this republic.

We have to reevaluate how we are protecting members of Congress and staffs in the face of rising threats, but we also have to look at protecting all American people as that happens.

I believe Congress and Senate Democrats, if necessary, will not hesitate to exercise our authority.

Overturning Citizens United is probably more important than any other single thing we could do to preserve this great and grand democracy.

Condemning violence is important but it is not enough.

We must confront the toxic forces radicalizing individuals.