FILE - In this April 7, 2009, file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., talk in Binghamton, N.Y. Schumer, the former chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and architect of the party's majority in the chamber, is Gillibrand's chief mentor, and has made her re-election a priority. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, FILE)