Charles E. Schumer

46 years in the U.S. Congress · since 1981

• Senator NY 1999–present
• Representative NY-16 1981–1999

• background Born November 23, 1950 in Brooklyn; Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate
• role New York State Assembly (1975–1980), U.S. House (1981–1999)
• role U.S. senator from New York since 1999; longest-serving (surpassed Moynihan, Javits)
• role Senate Democratic leader since 2017; majority leader 2021–2025
• achievement First Jewish Senate majority leader in U.S. history (January 2021)
• achievement Shepherded major Biden legislation: American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure, IRA, CHIPS Act

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $3,822 · 78 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

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• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 35
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 289 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 35 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 11 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 2
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Charles E. Schumer. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Intelligence (Select) Committee Ex Officio
• Rules and Administration Committee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Schumer most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Schumer connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov