Old Senate news repackaged as a chamber drama that didn’t happen

A recent Facebook post suggests chaos in the Senate chamber, but it’s clickbait. 

"Chaos unfolds on Senate floor — Chuck Schumer rushes out," reads text over an image of the majority leader and New York Democrat. 

But the March 17 post then links to a 2023 blog post that describes no such scene.  

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The Dec. 27, 2023, blog post has a much different title: "Dem-controlled Senate forced to kick critical bills to New Year." It doesn’t discuss or allude to chaos or Schumer rushing out of the chamber.

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The Facebook post and the blog post have different images of Schumer. 

The Facebook post’s image shows Schumer meeting with reporters at the Capitol on Dec. 19, according to The Associated Press caption. 

The blog post’s image, which shows Schumer walking and talking to reporters in November 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she’d step down as the House Democratic leader.

We looked for but didn’t find any credible news coverage that Schumer recently fled the Senate amid "chaos." 

On Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump were attacking the U.S. Capitol, Schumer was evacuated from Senate chambers along with other lawmakers, and taken to a secure location. Video footage from that day shows Schumer was wearing a dark blue suit and a blue tie, not a gray suit or orange tie that he was wearing in the images from Nov. 19, 2022, and Dec. 19, 2023.

We rate the claim that this image shows Schumer rushing out as chaos unfolded in the Senate False.