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
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