Chuck Schumer

The stain on our democracy won't easily be washed away.

Today's events certainly, certainly would not have happened without him.

The President who promoted conspiracy theories that motivated these thugs, the President who exhorted them to come to our Nation's Capital, egged them on, he hardly ever discourages violence, and more often encourages it. This President…

After all the insanity that Senate Republicans have tolerated from President Trump, his attacks on the rule of law, an independent judiciary, the kind of conduct that led to his impeachment, is this where Senate Republicans are going to…

In a moment, I will move to have the Senate take up the house bill to increase that number to $2,000, which I might add had broad bipartisan support. I don't want to hear that we can't afford it. I don't want to hear that it would add too…

Will Senate Republicans stand against the House of Representatives, the Democratic majority in the Senate, and the president of their own party to prevent these $2,000 checks from going out the door?

Today is a good day. But it's certainly not the end of the story. It cannot be the end of the story.

This bill cannot and will not be the final word on congressional relief from the corona pandemic. This is an emergency survival package.

First, I want to thank the Senator from Oklahoma for, as usual, his courtesy, which I very much appreciate. ____________________

You will hear voices say Democrats want to fund state and local services while Republicans, that is Leader McConnell, wants corporate liability shield.

Make no mistake, right now, there's one person, just one person standing in the way. And that is Leader McConnell.

Last night we received the sad news that a former colleague of ours, one of our finest, Paul Sarbanes, had passed away. While our time in the Senate only overlapped for one term, Senator Sarbanes made a deep impression. Known as the…

First, I spoke earlier about Senator Alexander, but I would like to compliment my colleagues on both sides of the aisle. This is a fine and rare moment of bipartisanship and support of somebody we all admire and respect.

They have released the whirlwind and they will pay the price.

Now, before I begin, Madam President, I want to remind Senators to wear a mask as much as possible on the floor. I personally take my mask off when addressing the Chair, so long as other Senators or staff are not nearby. Otherwise, a mask…

Now we take Georgia. Then we change America.

Biden should do some incredibly bold things through executive action.

He said very forthrightly just on that legislative stuff, that he and the party in the Obama years has been too unambitious and that there needs to be a change in direction bold, progressive change.

He didn't only assume that world. So, he gave me the kind of laundry list of what they would want to do in that world, ambitious environmental legislation, health legislation, so on and so forth.

Joe Biden should, by executive order, wipe out $50,000 of student debt for millions of Americans.

But you will never, never get your credibility back. This Republican majority confirmed a lifetime appointment on the eve of an election, a justice who will alter the lives and freedoms of the American people while they stood in line to…

The next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, meaning the Senate, you -- meaning you Republicans -- will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority.

I appeal the ruling of the Chair, and I move to table the appeal.

In accordance with rule XXI, I now move that the Senate go into closed session. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there a second?

The Republicans, as we all know and as the Nation knows, are running the most partisan, most hypocritical, and least legitimate process in the history of Supreme Court nominations. That is why I suggested the absence of a quorum. We are…