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Chuck Schumer

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born

November 23, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

gender

male

website

http://schumer.senate.gov/

genre

Nonfiction, Politics

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Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer is the senior U.S. Senator from the State of New York, serving since 1999. A liberal Democrat, 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 Senate Democratic Caucus. In this position, he is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind President pro tempore Robert Byrd, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin.

In January 2007, he published a book called Positively American, outlining strategies with which Democrats could court middle-class voters.