Making sure Assad knows that when he commits such despicable atrocities he will pay a price is the right thing to do.

Chuck Schumer

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With Joe Biden in the White House and Democratic majorities in the White House and Senate, the time is now to take action.

Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing issue.

I want to be clear about what just happened on the Senate floor, every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate … on legislation to protect Americans' voting rights.

Republicans across the country are deliberately targeting all the ways that younger, poorer, nonwhite and typically Democratic voters access the ballot, republicans claim they’re making it easier to vote and harder to cheat in an election; but in reality, they are making it harder to vote and easier to cheat an election.

Donald Trump – his Big Lie has enveloped the Republican Party, and they run away from truth and honesty and fairness just to appease someone with a very authoritarian instinct.

There is no good reason to allow this legal authority to persist in case another reckless Commander-in-Chief tries the same trick in the future.

One track is bipartisan and the second track pulls in other elements of Biden's American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, which will be considered even if it doesn't have bipartisan support, both are moving forward.

Tomorrow, I'm convening a meeting with all 11 Democratic members of Senate Budget Committee regarding a fiscal year'22 budget resolution and now that President Biden's fiscal'22 budget request has been received by Congress, Senate Budget Committee can begin the important work of producing a budget resolution, both are moving forward -- the bipartisan track and the track on reconciliation and both we hope to get done in the month of July, both the budget resolution and the bipartisan bill.

We must expand not only demographic diversity, but professional diversity, and I know that President Biden agrees with me on this, and this will be something that I will set out to do.

Senate Republicans mounted a partisan filibuster against a very straightforward piece of legislation to help provide equal pay to women, it's shocking that my Republican colleagues believe that the Senate has no role to play in defending the rights of women who are unfairly and illegally discriminated against in the workplace.

We're pursuing, a two-path proposal, on the one hand, there's bipartisan negotiations, and those are continuing. ... We all know, as a caucus, we will not be able to do all the things the country needs in a totally bipartisan, a bipartisan way. ... And so at the same time, we are pursuing the pursuit of reconciliation.

Look, the only way that a bill to provide equal pay to women is designed to fail is if The Senate on Tuesday Republicans block The Senate on Tuesday.

Reconciliation is certainly a serious consideration to get that big, bold action if we can't get it with Republicans.

Out of fear or fealty to Donald Trump, the Republican minority just prevented the American people from getting the full truth about January 6.

This vote has made it official: Donald Trump’s big lie has now fully enveloped the Republican Party, donald Trump’s big lie is now the defining principle of what was once the party of Lincoln.

I’m sorry that it may be bad politics for Republicans in their midterm campaigns, the Democratic-led Congress is not going to just sweep Jan. 6 under the rug. The truth will come out.

We will finish it this week, we’ve been so bipartisan. I haven’t seen anything like it in all the years that McConnell was leader, where we have been so open to the process. Today, we just offered them four more Republican amendments.

Literally, dozens of bipartisan amendments were added to the bill before it ever reached the floor, here on the floor, we are going to continue working through a series of amendments from both sides with such a depth of cooperation and consensus between our two parties, there is no reason we can't wrap up this bill this week and achieve a strong result for our country.

S1 is very, very important to Washington Democrats Democracy. You can not let millions of people's rights be taken away, failure is not an option and everything will be on the table. We're continuing to have discussions within the whole caucus.

They are caving to Donald Trump and proving that the Republican Party is still drunk off the big lie.