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Schumer Brings Pragmatism, Experience and Ego to Role of Senate Majority
Leader

Rob Garver

   WASHINGTON - Capping nearly a half-century in politics, Democratic
   Senator Chuck Schumer is on the verge of taking control as majority
   leader of a closely divided Senate, placing him at the center of the
   legislative battles to come when President-elect Joe Biden is
   inaugurated January 20.

   Schumer, 70, the first New Yorker and the first Jew to hold the
   position of Senate Majority Leader, will succeed Republican Majority
   Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky at a perilous moment: The country is
   gripped by the deadly COVID-19 epidemic, the economy is in tatters, and
   the nation is reeling from last Wednesday's rioting at the U.S. Capitol
   by a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters.

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