Chuck Schumer

"I think the president should be tried... anything past that is something we can discuss."

Schumer announced the plan to file a fiscal-year 2021 budget measure in the Senate and House, saying it would allow Congress to fast-track a coronavirus package for passage by both ...

"There are inherent and perhaps unintentional consequences of changes the rules of a place where your power is never permanently guaranteed."

"Our preference is to make this important work bipartisan."

"A vote on a budget resolution could come as early as next week."

"The work must move forward."

"The time for talk is over. No more excuses."

Schumer is not holding back.

"We'll try to get that passed in the next month, month and a half."

"The legislative filibuster was a key part of the foundation beneath the Senate's last 50-50 power-sharing agreement in 2001."

"If this filibuster has now become so common in the Senate that we can't act — that we just sit their helpless — shame on us."

Doug Andres, a spokesman for McConnell, said the senator was pleased Democrats had given Trump's defense more time, and laid out a timeline that could have the trial begin as ...

"During that period, the Senate will continue to do other business for the American people."

"The articles will be delivered to the Senate on Monday."

Republicans argued that Trump needed time to prepare a defense.

"Things are on hold. I've got a lot of things I want to do," the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, told reporters on Thursday.

There will now be a 50-50 split in the Senate, with Harris able to cast the tie breaking vote, giving Democrats control of the chamber.

McConnell said last year that if the Senate did split 50-50 along party lines, he assumed the chamber would embrace a similar arrangement to that of 2001.

The additions will split the chamber, currently Republican controlled, 50-50 with Harris holding the tie-breaking vote.

"All of us want to put this awful chapter in our nation's history behind us."