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{{Infobox Senator | name=Charles Schumer| nationality=American| image name=Charles Schumer official portrait.jpg| jr/sr=Senior Senator| state=New York| term_start=[January 6, 1999| succeeded=Incumbent (2011)| date of birth=| place of birth=[Brooklyn, New York| religion=[Judaism-->Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is the seniority United States Senate from the state of New York, serving since 1999. A Democratic Party (United States), in 2005, he became chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In November 2006, he was elected to the new post of Vice Chairman of the Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate. HillNews.com In this position, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin.

Because of his high position, he was recently found fourth most powerful U.S. Senator, just behind Leader Harry Reid, whip Dick Durbin, president pro tempore Robert Byrd, and preceding minority leader Mitch McConnellhttp://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/state.tt?state=NY

In January 2007, he published a book called Positively American about how Democrats could reclaim middle-class voters. PositivelyAmericanBook.com

Biography Schumer was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His parents were Selma Rosen and Abraham Schumer.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/schumer.htm He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring a 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as the valedictorian from James Madison High School (New York) in 1967.Blaine Harden, Washington Post, Battle of the Mean Machines: Can Schumer Beat D'Amato at His Own Game?, October 5, 1998. Retrieved January 26, 2007. Schumer competed for Madison on the It's Academic television quiz show.Sam Roberts, The New York Times, For Schumer, a Chance to Relive a 1960s Quiz Show, March 5, 2007. Retrieved March 6, 2007.

He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in United States presidential election, 1968. After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1974. Schumer passed the New York State Bar Exam in early 1975 but never practiced law, entering politics instead.

Schumer and his wife, Iris Weinshall, were married September 21, 1980. The ceremony took place at Windows on the World at the top of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Photo from Senate bio. Retrieved January 26, 2007. Weinshall was the Government of New York City Commissioner of Transportation in New York City. NYC.gov The Schumers have two daughters, Jessica and Alison. They live on Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

While Congress is in session, Senator Schumer lives in a rented house with fellow Democratic politicians George Miller (politician), Dick Durbin, and Bill Delahunt. New York Times — Taking Power, Sharing Cereal, January 18, 2007

State Assemblyman and Congressman The same year he graduated from Harvard Law, 1974, he ran for and was elected to the New York State Assembly, becoming at age 23 the youngest member of the New York legislature since Theodore Roosevelt. He served three terms. schumer.senate.gov He has never lost an election, and has never held a job outside of politics.

In 1980, 16th District United States House of Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat of United States Republican Party Jacob Javits. Schumer ran for Holtzman's vacated United States House of Representatives seat and won.

He was reelected eight times from the Brooklyn and Queens-based district, which changed numbers twice in his tenure (it was numbered the 16th from 1981 to 1983, the 10th from 1983 to 1993 and the 9th from 1993). The 9th is one of the most Democratic districts in New York City, and Schumer never faced a serious or well-funded United States Republican Party opponent during this period.

United States Senator In United States Senate elections, 1998, he won the Democratic Senate primary with 51% of the votes against Geraldine Ferraro (21%) and Mark J. Green (19%). He then received 55% of the vote in the general electionhttp://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe1998/98senate.htm, defeating three-term incumbent Republican Al D'Amato (44%).

In 2004, Schumer handily won re-election against Republican New York Legislature Howard Mills of Middletown, Orange County, New York and Conservative Party of New York State Marilyn F. O'Grady. Many New York Republicans were dismayed by the selection of Mills over the conservative Michael Benjamin Bonheur, who held significant advantages over Mills in both fundraising and organization. Senate hopeful claims GOP bosses snubbed him. Albany Times-Union, February 25, 2004. Benjamin publicly accused New York Republican State Committee Chairman Alexander Treadwell and Governor George Pataki of trying to muscle him out of the senate race and undermine the democratic process. Schumer defeated Mills, the second-place finisher, by 2.8 million votes and won reelection with 71% of the vote, the most lopsided margin ever for a statewide election in New York. Major Parties to Anoint their Senate Combatants. Humbert, Mark. Associated Press, May 15, 2004. Schumer won every county in the state except one, Hamilton County, New York in the Adirondacks, the least populated and most Republican county in the state. Mills conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, before returns had come in.

His approval rating as of 8-21-2007 is 58%, with 31% disapproving. Committees Schumer is Chairman of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee. He also currently serves on the following U.S. Congressional committee:



Legislative Record While serving in the House of Representatives, Schumer authored the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 with California Senator Dianne Feinstein, which expired in 2004. The National Rifle Association and other gun groups (see gun politics) have criticized him for allegedly not knowing much about guns, pointing to various errors regarding the subject. Supporters of gun control legislation, however, give him much of the credit for passage of both the Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act despite intense lobbying from opponents. The AWB, which restricted certain cosmetic features on semi-automatic rifles, expired in September, 2004 despite attempts by Schumer to extend it. He was one of 16 Senators to vote against the Vitter Amendment, which prohibited funding for the confiscation of legally owned firearms during a disaster.

Schumer has recently been criticized by video game players for siding with Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat-Connecticut), promoting video game censorship. He is known to attack Eidos Interactive for the game 25 to Life, urging Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft to end their license agreements with Eidos Interactive.

Schumer has also focused on banking and consumer issues, counter-terrorism, and debate over confirmation of federal judges, as well as economic development in New York.

Schumer received a "B" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues. drummajorinstitute.com

Foreign Policy Schumer was and remains a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, although he has since become very critical of George W. Bush strategy in the Iraq War suggesting that a commission of ex-generals be appointed to review it. NY Daily News.com Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice has criticized Schumer for being too indifferent on the issue of torture.Nat Hentoff, the Village Voice, What the Democrats Must Do, November 26, 2006. Retrieved January 26, 2007.

In 2006, Schumer led a bipartisan effort, with the help of Republicans like Congressman Peter T. King (NY), to stop a deal approved by the Bush administration to transfer control of six United States ports to a corporation owned by the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai Ports World. (See Dubai Ports World controversy.) The 9/11 Commission reported that despite recent alliances with the U.S., the UAE had strong ties to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The measure in the House was H.R 4807, and in the Senate, S. 2333; these were introduced to require a 45 day review of this transfer of ownership. On March 9, 2006, Dubai Ports World withdrew its application to operate the port.

Political Style Schumer's propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke amongst many commentators, leading Bob Dole to quip that "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera." Schumer frequently schedules media appearances on Sundays, a slow day for news, in the hope of getting television coverage, typically on subjects other than legislative matters. His use of media has been cited by some as a successful way to raise a politician's profile nationally and amongst his constituents. jrn.columbia.edu, news.neilrogers.com, observer.com

Clinton Impeachment Schumer has the distinction of voting "no" on the Impeachment of Bill Clinton charges of President Bill Clinton in both houses of United States Congress. Schumer was a member of the United States House of Representatives (and United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary member) during a December 1998 lame duck (politics) session of Congress, voting "no" on all counts in Committee and on the floor of the House. In January 1999, Schumer, as a newly elected member of the United States Senate, also voted "no" on the two impeachment charges.

U.S. Attorney controversy As chair of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts , Schumer has taken a lead role in the investigation of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.{{cite news]|date=2007-03-31|accessdate=2007-04-11-->Although he was at one point criticized for being a lead investigator of the affair while also chairing the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, such criticism was not sustained after the full dimensions of the controversy became apparent.

On March 11, 2007; Schumer became the first lawmaker in either chamber to call for United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign for Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy of eight United States Attorneys. In an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation, Schumer said that Gonzales "doesn't accept or doesn't understand that he is no longer just the president's lawyer."http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-talk/2007/03/march_11_schumer_calls_on_gonz.html When Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, resigned on March 13, Schumer said during a press conference that Gonzales was "carrying out the political wishes of the president" and declared that Sampson would "not be the next Scooter Libby," meaning that he did not accept that Sampson had sole responsibility for the attorney's controversy.

Schumer, like other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was angered when during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 19, 2007 Gonzales answered many times that he didn't know or couldn't recall details about the controversy. When Schumer's turn came to ask his last round of questions, he instead repeated his call for Gonzales to resign, saying that there was no point to further questioning since he had stated "over a hundred times" that he didn't know or couldn't recall important details concerning the firings (most press reports counted 71 instances). Gonzales responded that the onus was on the committee to prove whether anything improper occurred. Schumer replied that Gonzales faced a higher standard, and that under this standard he had to give "a full, complete and convincing explanation" for why the eight attorneys were fired.

Government bailout of subprime mortgages Following the United States housing bubble#Subprime mortgage industry collapse of the subprime lending mortgage industry in March 2007, Charles Schumer proposed a federal government bailout of subprime borrowers in order to save homeowners from losing their residences. Others are quick to point out that such a "bailout" would primarily benefit lenders and Wall Street bankers, who make large campaign contributions to congressmen; Charles Schumer's top nine campaign contributors are all financial institutions who have contributed over $2.5 million to the senator.http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?CID=N00001093

Charles Schumer also proposed that the OFHEO raise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's conforming loan ("affordable") limits from $417,000 to $625,000, thereby allowing these Government sponsored enterprises to back mortgages on homes prices up to $780,000 with a 20% down payment.http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/record.cfm?id=282215

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Schumer is currently the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, part of the Democratic Senate Leadership, with primary responsibility for raising funds and recruiting candidates for the Democrats in the United States general elections, 2006. When he took this post, he announced that he would not run for Governor of New York in New York gubernatorial election, 2006, as many had speculated he would. This step avoided a potentially divisive gubernatorial primary election in 2006 between Schumer and Eliot Spitzer, then New York's attorney general.

Schumer's tenure as DSCC chair has been successful so far; in the 2006 elections, the Democratic Party gained six seats in the Senate, defeating incumbents in each of those races and regaining control of the Senate for the first time since 2002. Of the closely contested races in the Senate in 2006, the Democrats lost only one, in Tennessee. Senate Majority Leader-to-be Harry Reid persuaded Schumer to serve another term as DSCC chair.

In September 2005, two staff employees of the DSCC illegally obtained a copy of the credit report of the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Michael S. Steele, a Republican senatorial candidate, posing as him and using his social security number. Upon learning this, the committee's executive director notified the U.S. attorney's office, and suspended the involved staffers. They are currently under investigation by the FBI. Schumer has not been implicated in the incident, and a spokesperson for the DSCC has said, "Chuck's only involvement was to report this matter to the authorities immediately after first learning about it." NY NewsDay.com

Electoral history 2004 New York United States Senatorial Election

{||Chuck Schumer (D) (inc.) 70.6%|-|Howard Mills III 24.6%] (Green) 0.5%|-|Donald Silberger (Lib.) 0.3%|-|Abraham Hirschfeld (Builders Party) 0.2%] (Socialist Workers) 0.2%|}

1998 New York United States Senatorial Election

{||Chuck Schumer (D) 55%|-|Al D'Amato (R) (inc.) 44%] 21%|-|Mark J. Green 19%|}

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{{Infobox Senator | name=Charles Schumer| nationality=American| image name=Charles Schumer official portrait.jpg| jr/sr=Senior Senator| state=New York| term_start=[January 6, 1999| succeeded=Incumbent (2011)| date of birth=| place of birth=[Brooklyn, New York| religion=[Judaism-->Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is the seniority United States Senate from the state of New York, serving since 1999. A Democratic Party (United States), in 2005, he became chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In November 2006, he was elected to the new post of Vice Chairman of the Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate. HillNews.com In this position, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin.

Because of his high position, he was recently found fourth most powerful U.S. Senator, just behind Leader Harry Reid, whip Dick Durbin, president pro tempore Robert Byrd, and preceding minority leader Mitch McConnellhttp://www.congress.org/congressorg/power_rankings/state.tt?state=NY

In January 2007, he published a book called Positively American about how Democrats could reclaim middle-class voters. PositivelyAmericanBook.com

Biography Schumer was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family. His parents were Selma Rosen and Abraham Schumer.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/schumer.htm He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring a 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as the valedictorian from James Madison High School (New York) in 1967.Blaine Harden, Washington Post, Battle of the Mean Machines: Can Schumer Beat D'Amato at His Own Game?, October 5, 1998. Retrieved January 26, 2007. Schumer competed for Madison on the It's Academic television quiz show.Sam Roberts, The New York Times, For Schumer, a Chance to Relive a 1960s Quiz Show, March 5, 2007. Retrieved March 6, 2007.

He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy in United States presidential election, 1968. After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.) in 1974. Schumer passed the New York State Bar Exam in early 1975 but never practiced law, entering politics instead.

Schumer and his wife, Iris Weinshall, were married September 21, 1980. The ceremony took place at Windows on the World at the top of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Photo from Senate bio. Retrieved January 26, 2007. Weinshall was the Government of New York City Commissioner of Transportation in New York City. NYC.gov The Schumers have two daughters, Jessica and Alison. They live on Prospect Park West in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

While Congress is in session, Senator Schumer lives in a rented house with fellow Democratic politicians George Miller (politician), Dick Durbin, and Bill Delahunt. New York Times — Taking Power, Sharing Cereal, January 18, 2007

State Assemblyman and Congressman The same year he graduated from Harvard Law, 1974, he ran for and was elected to the New York State Assembly, becoming at age 23 the youngest member of the New York legislature since Theodore Roosevelt. He served three terms. schumer.senate.gov He has never lost an election, and has never held a job outside of politics.

In 1980, 16th District United States House of Representatives Elizabeth Holtzman won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat of United States Republican Party Jacob Javits. Schumer ran for Holtzman's vacated United States House of Representatives seat and won.

He was reelected eight times from the Brooklyn and Queens-based district, which changed numbers twice in his tenure (it was numbered the 16th from 1981 to 1983, the 10th from 1983 to 1993 and the 9th from 1993). The 9th is one of the most Democratic districts in New York City, and Schumer never faced a serious or well-funded United States Republican Party opponent during this period.

United States Senator In United States Senate elections, 1998, he won the Democratic Senate primary with 51% of the votes against Geraldine Ferraro (21%) and Mark J. Green (19%). He then received 55% of the vote in the general electionhttp://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe1998/98senate.htm, defeating three-term incumbent Republican Al D'Amato (44%).

In 2004, Schumer handily won re-election against Republican New York Legislature Howard Mills of Middletown, Orange County, New York and Conservative Party of New York State Marilyn F. O'Grady. Many New York Republicans were dismayed by the selection of Mills over the conservative Michael Benjamin Bonheur, who held significant advantages over Mills in both fundraising and organization. Senate hopeful claims GOP bosses snubbed him. Albany Times-Union, February 25, 2004. Benjamin publicly accused New York Republican State Committee Chairman Alexander Treadwell and Governor George Pataki of trying to muscle him out of the senate race and undermine the democratic process. Schumer defeated Mills, the second-place finisher, by 2.8 million votes and won reelection with 71% of the vote, the most lopsided margin ever for a statewide election in New York. Major Parties to Anoint their Senate Combatants. Humbert, Mark. Associated Press, May 15, 2004. Schumer won every county in the state except one, Hamilton County, New York in the Adirondacks, the least populated and most Republican county in the state. Mills conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, before returns had come in.

His approval rating as of 8-21-2007 is 58%, with 31% disapproving. Committees Schumer is Chairman of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee. He also currently serves on the following U.S. Congressional committee:



Legislative Record While serving in the House of Representatives, Schumer authored the Federal Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 with California Senator Dianne Feinstein, which expired in 2004. The National Rifle Association and other gun groups (see gun politics) have criticized him for allegedly not knowing much about guns, pointing to various errors regarding the subject. Supporters of gun control legislation, however, give him much of the credit for passage of both the Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act despite intense lobbying from opponents. The AWB, which restricted certain cosmetic features on semi-automatic rifles, expired in September, 2004 despite attempts by Schumer to extend it. He was one of 16 Senators to vote against the Vitter Amendment, which prohibited funding for the confiscation of legally owned firearms during a disaster.

Schumer has recently been criticized by video game players for siding with Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat-Connecticut), promoting video game censorship. He is known to attack Eidos Interactive for the game 25 to Life, urging Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft to end their license agreements with Eidos Interactive.

Schumer has also focused on banking and consumer issues, counter-terrorism, and debate over confirmation of federal judges, as well as economic development in New York.

Schumer received a "B" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues. drummajorinstitute.com

Foreign Policy Schumer was and remains a supporter of the Iraq War Resolution, although he has since become very critical of George W. Bush strategy in the Iraq War suggesting that a commission of ex-generals be appointed to review it. NY Daily News.com Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice has criticized Schumer for being too indifferent on the issue of torture.Nat Hentoff, the Village Voice, What the Democrats Must Do, November 26, 2006. Retrieved January 26, 2007.

In 2006, Schumer led a bipartisan effort, with the help of Republicans like Congressman Peter T. King (NY), to stop a deal approved by the Bush administration to transfer control of six United States ports to a corporation owned by the government of United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai Ports World. (See Dubai Ports World controversy.) The 9/11 Commission reported that despite recent alliances with the U.S., the UAE had strong ties to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The measure in the House was H.R 4807, and in the Senate, S. 2333; these were introduced to require a 45 day review of this transfer of ownership. On March 9, 2006, Dubai Ports World withdrew its application to operate the port.

Political Style Schumer's propensity for publicity is the subject of a running joke amongst many commentators, leading Bob Dole to quip that "the most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera." Schumer frequently schedules media appearances on Sundays, a slow day for news, in the hope of getting television coverage, typically on subjects other than legislative matters. His use of media has been cited by some as a successful way to raise a politician's profile nationally and amongst his constituents. jrn.columbia.edu, news.neilrogers.com, observer.com

Clinton Impeachment Schumer has the distinction of voting "no" on the Impeachment of Bill Clinton charges of President Bill Clinton in both houses of United States Congress. Schumer was a member of the United States House of Representatives (and United_States_House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary member) during a December 1998 lame duck (politics) session of Congress, voting "no" on all counts in Committee and on the floor of the House. In January 1999, Schumer, as a newly elected member of the United States Senate, also voted "no" on the two impeachment charges.

U.S. Attorney controversy As chair of the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts , Schumer has taken a lead role in the investigation of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.{{cite news]|date=2007-03-31|accessdate=2007-04-11-->Although he was at one point criticized for being a lead investigator of the affair while also chairing the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, such criticism was not sustained after the full dimensions of the controversy became apparent.

On March 11, 2007; Schumer became the first lawmaker in either chamber to call for United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign for Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy of eight United States Attorneys. In an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation, Schumer said that Gonzales "doesn't accept or doesn't understand that he is no longer just the president's lawyer."http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-talk/2007/03/march_11_schumer_calls_on_gonz.html When Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, resigned on March 13, Schumer said during a press conference that Gonzales was "carrying out the political wishes of the president" and declared that Sampson would "not be the next Scooter Libby," meaning that he did not accept that Sampson had sole responsibility for the attorney's controversy.

Schumer, like other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was angered when during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 19, 2007 Gonzales answered many times that he didn't know or couldn't recall details about the controversy. When Schumer's turn came to ask his last round of questions, he instead repeated his call for Gonzales to resign, saying that there was no point to further questioning since he had stated "over a hundred times" that he didn't know or couldn't recall important details concerning the firings (most press reports counted 71 instances). Gonzales responded that the onus was on the committee to prove whether anything improper occurred. Schumer replied that Gonzales faced a higher standard, and that under this standard he had to give "a full, complete and convincing explanation" for why the eight attorneys were fired.

Government bailout of subprime mortgages Following the United States housing bubble#Subprime mortgage industry collapse of the subprime lending mortgage industry in March 2007, Charles Schumer proposed a federal government bailout of subprime borrowers in order to save homeowners from losing their residences. Others are quick to point out that such a "bailout" would primarily benefit lenders and Wall Street bankers, who make large campaign contributions to congressmen; Charles Schumer's top nine campaign contributors are all financial institutions who have contributed over $2.5 million to the senator.http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?CID=N00001093

Charles Schumer also proposed that the OFHEO raise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's conforming loan ("affordable") limits from $417,000 to $625,000, thereby allowing these Government sponsored enterprises to back mortgages on homes prices up to $780,000 with a 20% down payment.http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/record.cfm?id=282215

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Schumer is currently the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, part of the Democratic Senate Leadership, with primary responsibility for raising funds and recruiting candidates for the Democrats in the United States general elections, 2006. When he took this post, he announced that he would not run for Governor of New York in New York gubernatorial election, 2006, as many had speculated he would. This step avoided a potentially divisive gubernatorial primary election in 2006 between Schumer and Eliot Spitzer, then New York's attorney general.

Schumer's tenure as DSCC chair has been successful so far; in the 2006 elections, the Democratic Party gained six seats in the Senate, defeating incumbents in each of those races and regaining control of the Senate for the first time since 2002. Of the closely contested races in the Senate in 2006, the Democrats lost only one, in Tennessee. Senate Majority Leader-to-be Harry Reid persuaded Schumer to serve another term as DSCC chair.

In September 2005, two staff employees of the DSCC illegally obtained a copy of the credit report of the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Michael S. Steele, a Republican senatorial candidate, posing as him and using his social security number. Upon learning this, the committee's executive director notified the U.S. attorney's office, and suspended the involved staffers. They are currently under investigation by the FBI. Schumer has not been implicated in the incident, and a spokesperson for the DSCC has said, "Chuck's only involvement was to report this matter to the authorities immediately after first learning about it." NY NewsDay.com

Electoral history 2004 New York United States Senatorial Election

{||Chuck Schumer (D) (inc.) 70.6%|-|Howard Mills III 24.6%] (Green) 0.5%|-|Donald Silberger (Lib.) 0.3%|-|Abraham Hirschfeld (Builders Party) 0.2%] (Socialist Workers) 0.2%|}

1998 New York United States Senatorial Election

{||Chuck Schumer (D) 55%|-|Al D'Amato (R) (inc.) 44%] 21%|-|Mark J. Green 19%|}

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