Chuck Schumer
U.S. Senator from New York
Charles Ellis “Chuck” Schumer was born in November 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics. After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor. He never practiced law, choosing a career in politics instead.
He served three terms in the New York Assembly and then was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served nine terms. He has been a U.S. Senator from New York since January 1999.
Schumer is married to Iris, and they have two children. He is Jewish.
In the News…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York highlighted his reasons for opposing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. The legislation seeks to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, as well as require verification of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
“[The] bill isn’t Voter ID, number one; it is about voter registration,” Senator Schumer claimed. “It allows ICE to kick tens of billions of people off the rolls, off the rolls. And they don’t tell them until Election Day, and you show up, and you say, ‘You’re not registered anymore, you’re not registered here. You’re not on the rolls.’ And they say, ‘I didn’t know that.’ This is a bill that destroys the country.”
The Senate minority leader continued, “And it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote. It’s about the voter registration rolls — destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in a algorithm put together by ICE, put together by DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] and [Elon] Musk. It’s an outrage. And that’s why so many people don’t want to pass it.”
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The Honorable Charles E. Schumer
Senator from New York
322 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
