Chuck Schumer

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 6:11 p.m., adjourned until Monday, January 25, 2021, at 3 p.m…

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 6:14 p.m., adjourned until Friday, January 22, 2021, at 10 a.m.

Now, for the information of Senators, there will be a rollcall vote on confirmation of the Austin nomination to be Secretary of Defense at approximately 10:30 tomorrow. We also hope to vote on confirmation of the Yellen and Blinken…

I have a request for one committee to meet during today's session of the Senate. It has the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following committee…

Just to clarify for the Members, we expect this vote to occur sometime within the next hour. I yield the floor. ____________________

The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump. It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial.

The House Managers will come to read the Article of Impeachment at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, January 25th. Members will then be sworn in the next day, Tuesday, January 26th.

And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that`s what we should do.

Leader McConnell`s proposal is unacceptable, and it won`t be accepted.

Make no mistake, a trial will be held in the United States Senate, and there will be a vote whether to convict the president.

The Senate will conduct a trial of the impeachment of Donald Trump. It will be a full trial. It will be a fair trial.

Just to let the Members know the order of business, we will first install Senator Leahy as President pro tempore. We will then have some other mechanical business. I will then give my maiden speech as majority leader of the U.S. Senate…

I'm going to mull it over and then respond.

Before I get into my remarks, I noted that my dear friend and colleague, the Senator from Illinois, is giving remarks to say a fond and, I am sure, a somewhat poignant farewell to Reema Dodin, who has done a great job for him, for the…

If Speaker Pelosi decides that she`s going to deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate as early as tomorrow when the Senate comes back, that will start a clock ticking where basically the Senate has 24 hours to start Trump`s…

There will be a vote on convicting the president for high crimes and misdemeanors, and if the president is convicted, there will be a vote on barring him from running again.

The two of them decide that such action is warranted by intervening circumstances, they can reconvene the Senate whenever they want.

Donald Trump should not hold office one day longer.

If Donald Trump is not removed, if he doesn't resign, then he should be impeached.

Yesterday was a win for the violent insurrectionism that is now the apex of the Republican Party.

Do you believe that Vice President Mike Pence and the majority of the Trump cabinet are going to vote to temporarily remove the president from office?

Invoking the 25th Amendment, they say, would represent a temporary guard rail for democracy, a needed return to sanity and decency in the White House until Joe Biden assumes office at noon eastern on January 20th.

By egging on this deadly insurrection and hailing the rioters, the president forfeited his moral authority to hold the nation's highest office even for 13 more days.

The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are both calling on the cabinet to take that step, to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the president.

Speaker Pelosi and I tried to call the vice president this morning to tell him to do this. They kept us on hold for 25 minutes and then said the vice president would not come on the phone. So, we are making the call public because he…