Biography
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.
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Awards & recognition
- Order of Merit, 1st class · 2024
- Time 100 · 2022
Filmography25 titles
24 Hours: Assault on the Capitol
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web
The Good Wife
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Four Hours at the Capitol
Reversing Roe
The Big Sick
Alpha House
Fahrenheit 11/9
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Saturday Night Live
The World According to Dick Cheney
Frontline
Frontline
60 Minutes
You're Watching Video Music Box
The Daily Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher
Loudmouth
The Words That Built America
First Ladies
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The View