During a press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the Kids Online Safety Act and other legislation.
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00:00Okay, I am joined by our two heroes, two of our heroes of the day, Senators Blumenthal and Aki.
00:14Okay, it's good to be doing the Q&A, but I'm not doing that.
00:20So I want to thank you for coming.
00:23Now, more than anything though, we're here today because of the countless parents who came here, met with us, cried with us, told us their powerful, compelling, and tragic stories.
00:38Today, the Senate keeps its promise to every parent who's lost a child because of the risks of social media.
00:48Today, after a lot of hard work, a lot of twists and turns, we'll pass COSA and COPPA.
00:56They will perhaps be the most – COSA and COPPA will be the most important updates to federal laws protecting kids on the Internet in decades.
01:06A very good first step.
01:09COSA, Blumenthal, and Blackburn fought to give kids and parents the tools and safeguards and transparency they need to protect our children's health and well-being.
01:21For COPPA, Senator Markey and Cassidy worked to protect the personal information for children and teenagers and ban targeted advertising aimed at them.
01:31Now we call on the House to pass these common-sense, bipartisan, life-saving bills.
01:40The overwhelming vote we received here on the floor of the Senate should importune the House to act and act quickly, and I hope it will do just that.
01:51Now on the tax bill.
01:53Last night, I filed a cloture on the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act, a very important piece of pro-family, pro-children, pro-growth legislation.
02:04Senators should expect to vote on this measure Thursday.
02:08Since becoming Majority Leader in 2021, I've tried my best to work first in a bipartisan way to get things done in this chamber.
02:19The Senate's record over the past three years bears this out.
02:23Democrats and Republicans have come together again, again, and again to pass historic bills like the Infrastructure Law, Chips and Signs, Ukraine and Israel, Veterans Health Care, Gun Safety, and Marriage and Welfare.
02:36Today we're getting another important bipartisan bill done through COSA and COPPA.
02:42And I will continue this productive streak this week.
02:46I want to continue this productive streak this week with a vote on the tax bill to deliver so many benefits to American families.
02:53We all know that expanding the child tax credit will do immensely, taking more than half a million kids out of poverty and giving 16 million kids, mainly poorer, working-class kids, $16 million in increased benefits.
03:10This bill shouldn't be difficult.
03:13It's bipartisan.
03:15It passed the Senate, the Republican House with a vote of 357 to 70.
03:21It was mainly put together by the Republican head of the Ways and Means Committee, hardly a tiny little.
03:28This bill should remain bipartisan, as it has been up to this point.
03:33We hope that it will.
03:35We hope that it will.
03:39Look, there are a lot of difficult bill votes we have to take in this chamber, but this bill is not one of them.
03:48To my Republican colleagues, step up and support the bill.
03:52I've made clear throughout my term as Majority Leader and even before that as Minority Leader that Democrats will not shy away from moving forward on important issues when necessary.
04:04To fight for families, give them a chance to see where their elected representatives stand.
04:09Putting Senators on the record is one way progress is made on important issues, and it's what we did on Choice, IVF, and contraception last month.
04:19This week is a classic example of how we can do both in the Senate.
04:24Pass bipartisan legislation to get things done for the American people, like Cozencaffer, with a large bipartisan majority,
04:32but also put pressure on Republicans to show where they stand on important issues like the child tax credit, affordable housing, and R&D,
04:40particularly on a bill like this, which is bipartisan, was brought up by Democrats and Republicans.
04:48So, this week, the American people will get a chance to see which Senators in reality support tax relief for parents, for families, for small business, for housing,
04:59and then we're going to see who opposes it.
05:02Over the past few days, some Republicans have falsely claimed that Democrats somehow oppose the child tax credit.
05:09This vote should end that false argument once and for all.
05:13Oppose it? We don't. What are they going to do?
05:17Expanding the child's tax credit is one of the most significant achievements Democrats have made under the Biden-Harris administration.
05:25If anyone wants to know who actually opposes expanding the child's tax credit,
05:30go ask the 49 Republican Senators who voted against the child tax credit when we passed the American Rescue Plan.
05:37Ask them, why did you oppose it, and then why are you voting against this bipartisan bill this week?
05:44Here's the truth. Democrats want to pass the tax package because it helps lift kids out of poverty.
05:50It helps poor and working-class families.
05:53It will also reward businesses that invest in R&D and create a lot of new jobs.
05:58And one of our greatest problems, housing.
06:01The low-income housing tax credit is one of the best tools we have for expanding supply of housing.
06:08So Democrats are ready and raring to go.
06:11The American people deserve tax relief.
06:14The big question right now is will Republicans follow their colleagues in the House and join us or will they stand in the way?