Chuck Schumer

Yesterday's vote was another piece of evidence that voter suppression is now part of the official platform of the Republican Party.

Discussions about infrastructure are progressing along two tracks. The first is bipartisan and the second incorporating elements of the president`s American Jobs and Families Plan. The second track is something we must support even if it…

One can`t be done without the other. We always agree to that.

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In the fight for voting rights this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line.

Senate Republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history along Donald -- alongside Donald Trump, the big lie and voter suppression. Today, every single Democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote…

My colleagues, my colleagues, if senators 60 years ago held that the federal government should never intervene to protect voting rights, this body would have never protected -- pass the Voting Rights Act. The Republican leader uses the…

It`s not a vote on any particular policy. It`s not a vote on this bill or that bill. It is a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue about voting rights, the crucial issue of voting rights in this country. Are you afraid…

The filibuster is an enslavement relic. It has got to go. You cannot have people`s right to vote blocked in this way.

Democrats -- 50 Democrats represent 43 million more people than the 50 Republicans do. And this is a holdover from really the time of enslavement. Many of these senators represent places that don`t have the same population, while the…

Voting rights are too important, too fundamental. This concerns the very core of our democracy and what we are about as a nation.

The fight to protect voting rights is not over, by no means.

This vote, I`m ashamed to say, is further evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of the Republican Party.

Republican state legislatures across the country are engaged in the most sweeping voter suppression in 80 years, capitalizing on and catalyzed by Donald Trump`s big lie.

Every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate, starting debate, on legislation to protect Americans` voting rights.

There is a rot, a rot at the center of the modern Republican Party. Donald Trump`s big lie has spread like a cancer. They don`t even want to debate it because they`re afraid.

Reducing polling hours in polling places. How is that about election integrity? How does that reduce voter fraud? ... It has to do with cruelty. It has to do with nastiness, and it has to do with suppressing the vote.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will put the For the People Act, the big voting rights act, on the Senate floor, and there will be a vote on whether or not it gets debated.

It`s a vote on whether the Senate should simply debate the issue of vote voting rights, the crucial issue of voting rights in this country. We shouldn`t have to debate the voting rights -- we shouldn`t have to debate voting rights on the…

This vote, I’m ashamed to say, is further evidence that voter suppression has become part of the official platform of the Republican Party.

Tomorrow, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will bring the For the People Act, the transformative voting rights reform bill to the floor for a vote.

Even if 10 Republicans don’t support the legislation, Schumer wants every American to know that there’s just one party willing to protect the right to vote in America and it is not the party of Mitch McConnell.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:48 p.m., adjourned until Monday, June 21, 2021, at 3 p.m…

In order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I would object to further proceeding. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bill will be placed on the calendar.

I understand that there is a bill at the desk due for a second reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bill by title for the second time. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 2093)…