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Charles E. Schumer

Headshot known as "Chuck"
b. 1950-11-23 , Brooklyn, NY
represents NY
Democrat, Jewish
Official website

Education: JD, Harvard Law School, 1974 BA, Harvard University, 1971.

Last elected in 2004 receiving 4,769,824 (71.0%) votes.

Money

Raised $552,147 (#351)
Spent 98% (#78)
From self 0% (#26)
From individuals 0% (#538)
From PACs 1% (#528)

Earmarks

Requested 341 (#1)
Total cost $1,471,619,994 (#2)
Received 314 (#1)
Total cost $603,982,055 (#4)
Data for fiscal year 2008

Bills

Co-sponsored 2,012 (#70)
Introduced 496 (#4)
Debated 52 (#28)
Enacted 22 (#11)

Speeches

Spoke 17 times (#65)
Avg. length 1,051 words (#170)
Data for 110th Congress

Voting Analysis

Ideology 46% left-wing (#420)
Predictable 96% (#144)
Unpredictable equals maverick

Interest Group Alignment

GroupAgreement
U.S. Chamber of Commerce 20% (1/5 votes)

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Money data from the FEC. Politician information from Project Vote Smart, Wikipedia, and GovTrack. Earmark information from Taxpayers for Common Sense. Interest group alignment from MAPLight.org. Ideology and predictability from VoteView. Photo from Project Vote Smart. Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 300087 (GovTrack), N00001093 (OpenSecrets), S000148 (Congressional Bio), 14858 (ICPSR), 26976 (Vote Smart), S8NY00082 (FEC)