Majority Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Emphasizing The Need For Bipartisan Cooperation In The Senate To Advance Key Policy Priorities And Prevent A Government Shutdown

Washington, D.C. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor on the need for Senators to work together on a bipartisan basis to make progress on important issues when possible. Below are Senator Schumer’s remarks, which can also be viewed here:

Everyone knows that an election is just around the corner, but senators still have a responsibility to make progress wherever possible on bipartisan issues that will help the American people.

There’s much we can still accomplish if Republicans give us their cooperation, and keep alive the bipartisan momentum that we had in July – when we passed KOSA and COPPA.

There is more work to do on the NDAA, on rail safety, on lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs, on artificial intelligence, and keeping health care costs low.

We may not be able to get all these things done before the election, but I urge my colleagues to make the most of this work period, so we can set ourselves up for success for the rest of this year.

Bipartisan compromise is hard – harder these days than it has been in the past – but as we’ve seen time and time again in these last two years, it can be done.

Bipartisanship has prevented pointless and painful government shutdowns.

Bipartisanship saved the full faith and credit of the United States.

Bipartisanship has rescued Ukraine from defeat on the battlefield.

And bipartisanship led to the monumental passage of kid’s online safety legislation. And I urge – I strongly urge – the House to take up KOSA and COPPA as soon as possible.

Bipartisanship has kept our airports running safely and delivered disaster relief and humanitarian aid for innocent civilians in Gaza and around the world and more.

I know many Senators on both sides, both sides, both sides, who still want bipartisanship continue, as much as possible for as long as possible.

We will have our fierce disagreements in the weeks to come, but that doesn’t change or diminish the responsibility we all have to ensure that the American people are taken care of. So let us continue.

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