Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Senate Democrats Pass $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan – ‘The Most Significant Piece of Legislation in Decades’

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentAugust 12, 2021

Shortly after the U.S. Senate passed President Joe Biden’s most ambitious pieces of legislation, a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, Democrats acted again by pushing through an equally enterprising $3.5 trillion budget proposal. The bill would make childcare more accessible, create universal pre-K, expand paid family and medical leave, and make community college free for the first two years.

Harris Joins Colleagues to Reintroduce Bill to Prevent Trump Administration from Distorting Census Count with Citizenship Question

Sentinel News ServiceJanuary 31, 2019

On January 15th, a U.S. District Judge ordered the administration to abort its plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. However, with a June deadline to print the final census questionnaire, the administration is now pressuring the Supreme Court to review this case, in hopes of still including a question about citizenship on next year’s census survey.