Charles E. Schumer
Democrat · NY · U.S. Senate
Bio
Charles Ellis Schumer is an American politician serving since 1999 as a United States senator from New York. A member of the Democratic Party, he has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and served as Senate majority leader from 2021 to 2025. He has served two stints as Senate minority leader, from 2017 to 2021 and since 2025. He became New York's senior senator in 2001, upon Daniel Patrick Moynihan's retirement. Elected to a fifth term in 2022, Schumer surpassed Moynihan and Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving U.S. senator from New York. He is the dean of New York's congressional delegation.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 45.6 years
- Chambers
- House 18y, Senate 27.6y
- First took office
- 1981 (14 terms)
- Seniority
- 4 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Senate Minority Leader · 2017–2021
- Senate Majority Leader · 2021–2025
- Senate Minority Leader · 2025–present
- Rochester, NY · 585-263-5866
- Binghamton, NY · 607-772-6792
- Buffalo, NY · 716-846-4111
- New York, NY · 212-486-4430
- Peekskill, NY · 914-734-1532
- Syracuse, NY · 315-423-5471
- Albany, NY · 518-431-4070
- Melville, NY · 631-753-0978
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.6M – $4.1M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $1.4M – $4.0M
- Since 2018
- +$1.6M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Charles E. Schumer's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Charles E. Schumer (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schumer's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Nixon on Schumer: When I'm Senator I'll 'Be Looking Elsewhere' for LeadershipThursday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon said if elected, she will likely not support Chuck Schumer for Senate Democratic leader. Host Kasie Hunt said, “So given all of that you’ve just said, Hakeem Jeffries, who would b…
Breitbart News · August 20, 2026
'Snowballing catastrophes' threaten to collide even if Dems win in November: journalistEven if Democrats sweep the midterms, the country could be barreling toward a cascade of crises that no election can head off. That's the warning from national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, the independent reporter behind the long-running blog emptywheel…
Raw Story · August 20, 2026
The Reign of Corporate Democrats Is Coming to an EndMost discussions about the Democratic Party in this election cycle focus on the remarkable rise of progressive Democrats (such as Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist who yesterday scored an upset win in the Democratic contest for the Florid…
Common Dreams · August 19, 2026
Senators slap back as Trump launches 'alarming' attack on privacyWhat Happened: Citing reporting by ProPublica, eight Democratic U.S. senators have criticized the Trump administration’s demands to access the health data of millions of people as a condition of giving lifesaving aid to other countries. In a letter to Secreta…
Raw Story · August 19, 2026
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