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Sen. Charles E. Schumer
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In 2004, New Yorkers re-elected U.S. Senator Charles E. “Chuck” Schumer to represent the State of New York in the U.S. Senate for a second-six year term. Chuck started off his second term by being appointed to the Democratic Leadership team by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Chuck also earned a seat on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees the nation’s tax, trade, social security and health care legislation. Chuck also sits on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the Judiciary Committee; and the Rules Committee. He is the Ranking Member of the Administrative Oversight and the Courts Subcommittee and the Economic Policy Subcommittee. Prior to his election to the Senate, Chuck represented the Ninth Congressional District in Brooklyn and Queens for eighteen years. Before that, he represented the Forty-Fifth Assembly District in Brooklyn for six years.

Blog Entries by Sen. Charles E. Schumer

Support a Public Option

161 Comments | Posted June 22, 2009 | 05:00 PM (EST)

Nearly 50 million Americans -- one-in-six of our fellow citizens -- lack health insurance. And even those families lucky enough to have health insurance have seen their premiums triple in the past decade, now paying an average of $16,000 per year and rising rapidly.

In short, America's health care system...

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Exploring New York By Bike

24 Comments | Posted June 22, 2009 | 12:00 AM (EST)

Exploring New York City and particularly Brooklyn is my passion and my pastime. As the great Brooklyn author Thomas Wolfe once famously quipped, "It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo. An' even den yuh wouldn't know it all." I have lived in Brooklyn my entire...

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Positively American

Posted January 31, 2007 | 11:32 AM (EST)

Last week Huffington Post posted some excerpts from my new book, Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time. Thank you for your responses to it.

I'm here today to talk about your reactions to that, your thoughts on the 50% Solution, and the...

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Back to Work on the Issues that Matter

Posted January 4, 2007 | 01:06 PM (EST)

This past November, the American people sent us an undeniable message: they want change. For far too long, Congress took its eye off of helping people. In the last Congress, for example, under Republican control, we didn't do anything to make college more affordable, implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations to...

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