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U.S. Senator · New York
Charles E. Schumer
DemocratState D+8119th Congress
Typical swing score37#59 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Charles E. Schumer’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office322 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 5 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 5 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 1441, S. 1547, S. 2398, S. 4395, S. 4429.
Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.356 (party median -0.356; rank 23 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 100 (avg 96).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 45.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceEx OfficioMinority · 10th in seniority
- Senate Committee on Rules and AdministrationMinority · 2nd in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Schumer← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.356 is 0.00 level with the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.Con.Res. 113Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 59
| Middle |
| H.J.Res. 139 |