Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was heckled Tuesday during a speech addressing Senate Republicans’ intention to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. “Democrats are fighting as hard as we can to protect Americans,” Schumer said in his remarks on Capitol Hill. In response, a heckler shouted, ” You ain’t…
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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump’s executive orders addressing the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic were “a big show,” but added that “it doesn’t do anything.” Schumer said, “We have this huge crisis, the largest economic crisis since the depression, the greatest health crisis…
During a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) argued that there should be coronavirus oversight hearings in Congress “several” times a day and such hearings “should occur in every committee, every week.” Schumer said, “We should be holding multiple, serious oversight hearings every week. Several of my colleagues…
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that vote by mail provisions “will be a very important part of the legislation that we’re going to put forward, and we are going to fight like the devil for it.” Host Chris Hayes asked, “[T]he last CARES Act…the big one,…
On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and USS Theodore Roosevelt Commanding Officer Captain Brett Crozier are examples of people the Trump administration fired for speaking the truth. Schumer said, “There’s all too familiar a pattern in this administration, when you tell the president…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday. He declared during a pro-choice demonstration on the Supreme Court steps: “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions.” It was a…
Mark Wilson/Getty Indiana Sen. Mike Braun (R) affirmed that the United States is “in as good a shape” and “as prepared” as any nation to manage the coronavirus, given the infrastructure the country has, while Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are trying to “weaponize” the infection to win political points. In an interview with…
While speaking to reporters on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that the Senate’s refusal to allow additional witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial is “one of the worst tragedies that the Senate has ever overcome.” Schumer said, “To not allow a witness, a document, no witnesses, no documents, in an impeachment…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Monday on MSNBC’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impeachment that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) was losing control over the Republican senators who seem more willing to vote to hear the testimony of former National Security Advisor John Bolton. Schumer said, “There is no question we’re making good…
During CNN’s impeachment trial coverage on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that if the Senate’s impeachment trial has to go on for a longer period of time in order to get witnesses and documents, then “these senators can work a little longer. They can work a bit longer hours. They can work…