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July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan - Meeks Leads NYC Delegation Letter to CBP in Response to Derisive Facebook Group Rep. Gregory Meeks
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Cruelty is the point. Dehumanization of migrant children is the point. Family separation is the point. The administration's malignant policy of deterrence is immoral. #CloseTheCamps" Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "The inhumane conditions for children and their families. A secret border patrol workers' Facebook group sharing offensive images. The top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired. Now." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Acting @CBP Commissioner Morgan and other top leadership at U.S. Customs and Border Protection should be fired. A new, untainted team must be brought in to begin reining in the toxic culture at the border patrol." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Maybe @realDonaldTrump should read the poem on the Statue of Liberty over the July 4th holiday. These are human beings. Coming to America in search of a better life. It's time he remembered what America was all about." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 2, 2019 Rep. Jeffries: Border Agents Will Be Held Accountable for Their Vile and Reprehensible Behavior Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, ...
July 2, 2019 Tweet - "The recently exposed vile and racist border patrol agents have disgraced themselves and the badge. Our country is better than this. They must be terminated. Every. Single. One." Rep. Hakeem Jeffries
July 2, 2019 Tweet - "This is reality show foreign policy. President @realDonaldTrump joking with Putin about election security is basically giving him the green light to interfere. @SenateMajLdr McConnell has got to stop burying election security in his legislative graveyard. Time to vote. Now." Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 1, 2019 MSNBC "The Rachel Maddow Show - Transcript: "Trump, Kim Jong Un shook hands at DMZ." Rep. Jerry Nadler
July 1, 2019 CNN "Anderson Cooper 360" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Chuck Schumer Sen. Chuck Schumer
July 1, 2019 Reps. Cook and Espaillat Introduce E-waste Reform Legislation to Protect National Security Rep. Adriano Espaillat, ...
July 1, 2019 Letter to Phyllis Fong, USDA Inspector General - Members of Congress Demand Answers on Puerto Rico Nutrition Funding Delay Rep. Nydia Velázquez
July 1, 2019 Representative Adriano Espaillat Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Stop Chinese Electronic Counterfeiting Rep. Adriano Espaillat
July 1, 2019 Immediately Following His Major Push at West Point, Schumer Announces Just-Passed Senate Defense Bill Includes Desperately-Needed Provisions to Improve Hazard-Riddled Housing at Military Installations- Like West Point & Fort Drum- for Nation's Heroes & Their Families Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 30, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump meets with Kim Jong Un. North Korea continues to build nuclear weapons. Another typical Trump "show."" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "Unreal. President @realDonaldTrump should be holding Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of journalist and American resident Jamal Khashoggi & for its human rights abuses in Yemen. Instead he's calling the Crown Prince a friend!?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump: This is unacceptable. Why are you backing down again on China? Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade. This will dramatically undercut our ability to change China's unfair trade practices." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade. If President @realDonaldTrump backs off, as it appears he is doing, it will dramatically undercut our ability to change China's unfair trades practices." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "I will keep fighting for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. And it's absurd that I even have to say this, but I will: I would not divert border security funds into for-profit prisons to lock up children and asylum seekers. #DemDebate" Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
June 28, 2019 CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Gregory Meeks Rep. Gregory Meeks
June 28, 2019 Meng Statement on Voting Against Senate's Border Spending Bill Rep. Grace Meng
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "BIG NEWS: A bipartisan majority of the Senate today sent an important message to President @realDonaldTrump: You do not have a blank check to pursue another endless war in the Middle East. #NoUnauthorizedWar" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "Just left the Senate floor where I was so proud to preside as we vote on an amendment to our defense bill that would prohibit President @realDonaldTrump from using any funds to pursue a war in Iran without congressional approval." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "It's an honor to preside in the Senate today We're voting to prohibit @realDonaldTrump and the Defense Department from using any funds from our defense bill to pursue another endless war in the Middle East Congress must reassert our constitutional authority over war and peace" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump is joking with Putin about interfering in our elections, but the joke is on us and Putin's the only one laughing. President Trump is basically giving Putin a green light to interfere in 2020." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 NDAA Bill Passes Senate with Brown's Fentanyl & North Korea Sanctions Sen. Chuck Schumer, ...
June 27, 2019 Gillibrand and Schatz Announce "Restore Honor to Service Members Act" To Clear Discriminatory Records of Service Members Discharged Due To Sexual Orientation Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Senator Markey Leads Colleagues in Highlighting Trump Administration Delays in Sanctioning Chinese Officials for Abuses Against Uyghurs Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Tonko Presses for Congressional Oversight in Border Funding Bill Rep. Paul Tonko
June 27, 2019 Representative Adriano Espaillat Votes to Pass Critical Border Legislation to Protect Children and Keep America Safe Rep. Adriano Espaillat
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "President Trump said he was ten minutes away from starting a war with Iran--without ever asking Congress. We need a real commander in chief. #DemDebate" Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
June 27, 2019 NBC Democratic Party Presidential Debate Day 2 Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "Americans are worried @realDonaldTrump may bumble into war with Iran. I'm glad @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill. Congress must reestablish itself as this nation's decider of war and peace." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, and the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Chairman Engel, Nadler, and Thompson Call on Trump to End Unlawful Safe Third Country Negotiations Rep. Jerry Nadler, ...
June 27, 2019 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020--Resumed Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "The American people are worried that--even if President @realDonaldTrump isn't eager for war--he may bumble us into one. @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "I want @realDonaldTrump to see this @AP photo. Mr. President, these are not drug dealers, vagrants, criminals. How could you look at this and not understand these are human beings, fleeing violence and persecution, willing to risk a perilous journey in search of a better life?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump has arrived at the G20 and has already managed to insult our allies. Mr. President: Try aiming the criticism at our adversaries, China and Russia. You'll have a much better chance at making the G20 a success for American interests." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Cloture Motion Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Velázquez on Border Supplemental Rep. Nydia Velázquez
June 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative - Freshman House Democrats Send Letter to Lighthizer Demanding Changes to NAFTA Rewrite Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ...
June 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump - Harris, Democrats Call on Trump to Help Venezuelans by Granting them Temporary Protected Status Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "Russians interfered in our 2016 elections. Period. @realDonaldTrump has no excuse not to stand up for America against Putin at G20 But since we can't count on him, Congress must act @SenateMajLdr McConnell can't bury another election security bill in his legislative graveyard" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "How could you look at the @AP's picture of a Salvadoran father and daughter and not understand that these are human beings, fleeing violence and persecution, willing to risk a perilous--sometimes fatal--journey in search of a better life?" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "BIG: @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill America is worried @realDonaldTrump will bumble us into another endless war The amendment makes clear: If he wants to send us to war--Congress must authorize it" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "The president is flying to the G-20 tonight & is expected to meet with Putin Americans should have little confidence President Trump will stand up to him on election security If we can't count on President Trump to stand up to Putin, Congress must act" Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "This. Is. Outrageous. President @realDonaldTrump is saying it "none of your business" what he says to President Putin?! If we can't count on President Trump, Congress must act to protect our elections. @SenateMajLdr McConnell: It's time to give election security a vote. Now." Sen. Chuck Schumer
June 25, 2019 Schumer and Gillibrand Joint Statement on the Issuance of a Humanitarian Visa for Benjamin Barragan, Man With Young Children and Terminally Ill Wife in Brooklyn Sen. Chuck Schumer, ...
June 25, 2019 Chairman Nadler Statement for the Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of Bankruptcy Law and Legislative Proposals Rep. Jerry Nadler
June 25, 2019 After Her Bipartisan Push, Gillibrand Announces Major Victory For Thousands Of Veterans After Legislation She Championed To Ensure Blue Water Navy Vets Get The Benefits They Have Earned Has Been Signed Into Law Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Date Title Politician
July 3, 2019 Letter to Kevin McAleenan - Meeks Leads NYC Delegation Letter to CBP in Response to Derisive Facebook Group Rep.Gregory Meeks
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Cruelty is the point. Dehumanization of migrant children is the point. Family separation is the point. The administration's malignant policy of deterrence is immoral. #CloseTheCamps" Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "The inhumane conditions for children and their families. A secret border patrol workers' Facebook group sharing offensive images. The top leadership at the border patrol needs to be fired. Now." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Acting @CBP Commissioner Morgan and other top leadership at U.S. Customs and Border Protection should be fired. A new, untainted team must be brought in to begin reining in the toxic culture at the border patrol." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 3, 2019 Tweet - "Maybe @realDonaldTrump should read the poem on the Statue of Liberty over the July 4th holiday. These are human beings. Coming to America in search of a better life. It's time he remembered what America was all about." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 2, 2019 Rep. Jeffries: Border Agents Will Be Held Accountable for Their Vile and Reprehensible Behavior Rep.Hakeem Jeffries, ...
July 2, 2019 Tweet - "The recently exposed vile and racist border patrol agents have disgraced themselves and the badge. Our country is better than this. They must be terminated. Every. Single. One." Rep.Hakeem Jeffries
July 2, 2019 Tweet - "This is reality show foreign policy. President @realDonaldTrump joking with Putin about election security is basically giving him the green light to interfere. @SenateMajLdr McConnell has got to stop burying election security in his legislative graveyard. Time to vote. Now." Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 1, 2019 MSNBC "The Rachel Maddow Show - Transcript: "Trump, Kim Jong Un shook hands at DMZ." Rep.Jerry Nadler
July 1, 2019 CNN "Anderson Cooper 360" - Transcript: Interview with Sen. Chuck Schumer Sen.Chuck Schumer
July 1, 2019 Reps. Cook and Espaillat Introduce E-waste Reform Legislation to Protect National Security Rep.Adriano Espaillat, ...
July 1, 2019 Letter to Phyllis Fong, USDA Inspector General - Members of Congress Demand Answers on Puerto Rico Nutrition Funding Delay Rep.Nydia Velázquez
July 1, 2019 Representative Adriano Espaillat Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Stop Chinese Electronic Counterfeiting Rep.Adriano Espaillat
July 1, 2019 Immediately Following His Major Push at West Point, Schumer Announces Just-Passed Senate Defense Bill Includes Desperately-Needed Provisions to Improve Hazard-Riddled Housing at Military Installations- Like West Point & Fort Drum- for Nation's Heroes & Their Families Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 30, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump meets with Kim Jong Un. North Korea continues to build nuclear weapons. Another typical Trump "show."" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "Unreal. President @realDonaldTrump should be holding Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder of journalist and American resident Jamal Khashoggi & for its human rights abuses in Yemen. Instead he's calling the Crown Prince a friend!?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump: This is unacceptable. Why are you backing down again on China? Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade. This will dramatically undercut our ability to change China's unfair trade practices." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 29, 2019 Tweet - "Huawei is one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade. If President @realDonaldTrump backs off, as it appears he is doing, it will dramatically undercut our ability to change China's unfair trades practices." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "I will keep fighting for comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. And it's absurd that I even have to say this, but I will: I would not divert border security funds into for-profit prisons to lock up children and asylum seekers. #DemDebate" Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
June 28, 2019 CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Gregory Meeks Rep.Gregory Meeks
June 28, 2019 Meng Statement on Voting Against Senate's Border Spending Bill Rep.Grace Meng
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "BIG NEWS: A bipartisan majority of the Senate today sent an important message to President @realDonaldTrump: You do not have a blank check to pursue another endless war in the Middle East. #NoUnauthorizedWar" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "Just left the Senate floor where I was so proud to preside as we vote on an amendment to our defense bill that would prohibit President @realDonaldTrump from using any funds to pursue a war in Iran without congressional approval." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "It's an honor to preside in the Senate today We're voting to prohibit @realDonaldTrump and the Defense Department from using any funds from our defense bill to pursue another endless war in the Middle East Congress must reassert our constitutional authority over war and peace" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 28, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump is joking with Putin about interfering in our elections, but the joke is on us and Putin's the only one laughing. President Trump is basically giving Putin a green light to interfere in 2020." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 NDAA Bill Passes Senate with Brown's Fentanyl & North Korea Sanctions Sen.Chuck Schumer, ...
June 27, 2019 Gillibrand and Schatz Announce "Restore Honor to Service Members Act" To Clear Discriminatory Records of Service Members Discharged Due To Sexual Orientation Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Senator Markey Leads Colleagues in Highlighting Trump Administration Delays in Sanctioning Chinese Officials for Abuses Against Uyghurs Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Tonko Presses for Congressional Oversight in Border Funding Bill Rep.Paul Tonko
June 27, 2019 Representative Adriano Espaillat Votes to Pass Critical Border Legislation to Protect Children and Keep America Safe Rep.Adriano Espaillat
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "President Trump said he was ten minutes away from starting a war with Iran--without ever asking Congress. We need a real commander in chief. #DemDebate" Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
June 27, 2019 NBC Democratic Party Presidential Debate Day 2 Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "Americans are worried @realDonaldTrump may bumble into war with Iran. I'm glad @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill. Congress must reestablish itself as this nation's decider of war and peace." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, and the Hon. Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security - Chairman Engel, Nadler, and Thompson Call on Trump to End Unlawful Safe Third Country Negotiations Rep.Jerry Nadler, ...
June 27, 2019 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020--Resumed Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "The American people are worried that--even if President @realDonaldTrump isn't eager for war--he may bumble us into one. @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "I want @realDonaldTrump to see this @AP photo. Mr. President, these are not drug dealers, vagrants, criminals. How could you look at this and not understand these are human beings, fleeing violence and persecution, willing to risk a perilous journey in search of a better life?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Tweet - "President @realDonaldTrump has arrived at the G20 and has already managed to insult our allies. Mr. President: Try aiming the criticism at our adversaries, China and Russia. You'll have a much better chance at making the G20 a success for American interests." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 27, 2019 Cloture Motion Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Velázquez on Border Supplemental Rep.Nydia Velázquez
June 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative - Freshman House Democrats Send Letter to Lighthizer Demanding Changes to NAFTA Rewrite Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, ...
June 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump - Harris, Democrats Call on Trump to Help Venezuelans by Granting them Temporary Protected Status Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand, ...
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "Russians interfered in our 2016 elections. Period. @realDonaldTrump has no excuse not to stand up for America against Putin at G20 But since we can't count on him, Congress must act @SenateMajLdr McConnell can't bury another election security bill in his legislative graveyard" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "How could you look at the @AP's picture of a Salvadoran father and daughter and not understand that these are human beings, fleeing violence and persecution, willing to risk a perilous--sometimes fatal--journey in search of a better life?" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "BIG: @SenateMajLdr McConnell finally agreed to Democrats' demand for a vote on an Iran amendment to our defense bill America is worried @realDonaldTrump will bumble us into another endless war The amendment makes clear: If he wants to send us to war--Congress must authorize it" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "The president is flying to the G-20 tonight & is expected to meet with Putin Americans should have little confidence President Trump will stand up to him on election security If we can't count on President Trump to stand up to Putin, Congress must act" Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 26, 2019 Tweet - "This. Is. Outrageous. President @realDonaldTrump is saying it "none of your business" what he says to President Putin?! If we can't count on President Trump, Congress must act to protect our elections. @SenateMajLdr McConnell: It's time to give election security a vote. Now." Sen.Chuck Schumer
June 25, 2019 Schumer and Gillibrand Joint Statement on the Issuance of a Humanitarian Visa for Benjamin Barragan, Man With Young Children and Terminally Ill Wife in Brooklyn Sen.Chuck Schumer, ...
June 25, 2019 Chairman Nadler Statement for the Subcommittee Hearing on Oversight of Bankruptcy Law and Legislative Proposals Rep.Jerry Nadler
June 25, 2019 After Her Bipartisan Push, Gillibrand Announces Major Victory For Thousands Of Veterans After Legislation She Championed To Ensure Blue Water Navy Vets Get The Benefits They Have Earned Has Been Signed Into Law Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand
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