The Latest Breaking News from Chuck Schumer

A long-awaited U.S. Senate legislation that would decriminalize and deschedule cannabis on the federal level, while also promoting social equity, has finally been unveiled.

Antitrust legislation will be tough to pass in the fall, with lawmakers distracted by midterm elections.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law

The Senate majority leader has tasked Senator Tammy Baldwin, the first openly lesbian senator, with lobbying for Republican support

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, chaired by Sen.

Three centrist cheers for Sen. Joe Manchin III. Manchin’s stance on three key issues may be unpopular with some of his Democratic colleagues but they are popular with Americans.

President Joe Biden is preparing to announce new actions on climate change

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to move ahead with a slimmed-down version of legislation to provide billions of dollars in subsidies and tax credits for the semiconductor industry, hoping to ease a shortage that has disrupted production in industries from automobiles to electronics and high-tech weapons.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says plans by Democrats to curb drug prices would place socialist price controls between Americans and the treatments they need

Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in incentives for the semiconductor industry

WASHINGTON — Nearly a year ago, Sen. Joe Manchin wrote Fed Chair Jerome Powell to raise alarm that the central bank’s policies would overheat the economy, a fixation that made the West Virginia Democrat an outlier in his party.