The Senate next meets Nov 30, 2009; the House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
U.S. Senator, New York

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Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New York [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Nov 23, 1950 / 58 years old

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On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 10-28-09 4:52:20 to 4:55:10 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Charles Schumer:

When	Role	Representing
1999-2010	U.S. Senator	New York	(Most Recent Term Began in 2005) (was preceeded by Alfonse D'Amato)
1993-1998	U.S. Representative	New York’s 9^th	(was preceeded by Thomas Manton)
1983-1992	U.S. Representative	New York’s 10^th	(was preceeded by Mario Biaggi)
1981-1982	U.S. Representative	New York’s 16^th	(was preceeded by Elizabeth Holtzman)

Sponsorship Analysis

Schumer is a far-left Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Schumer is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Schumer’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Schumer, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Schumer and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Schumer.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Schumer's bills without Schumer returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports Schumer’s job approval rating at 57% as of 2007-11-20. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

Charles Schumer missed 429 (5%) of 8747 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Schumer in 2007-2008 was $80,800 from employees of Citigroup Inc. Charles Schumer’s net worth was between $276,023 and $890,000 in 2007, according to Schumer’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Schumer.

Committee Membership

Charles Schumer sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing

Vice Chairman, Joint Committee on the Library

Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee

Member, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions

Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development

Member, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment

Member, Senate Committee on Finance

Member, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions and Family Policy

Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Member, United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Charles Schumer has sponsored 591 bills since Feb 4, 1991 of which 532 haven't made it out of committee and 25 were successfully enacted. Schumer has co-sponsored 2242 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Schumer and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Schumer’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 1729: A bill to establish driver education curriculum for teenage drivers and to provide grants to States and tribal governments to carry out driver education training for licensed teenage drivers.
	S. 1724: Fighting Real Estate Fraud Act of 2009
	S.Res. 253: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Government of Libya should apologize for the welcome home ceremony held to celebrate the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.
	S.Res. 245: A resolution reocgnizing September 11, 2009, as a "National Day of Service and Rememberance".
	S. 1957: A bill to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary of Energy to make loans to publicly owned electric utilities to finance and refinance projects to comply with any Federal energy efficiency resource standard, and for other purposes.

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