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Schumer leads Dems in receiving Wall Street money

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gestures while delivering his

Photo credit: AP | Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gestures while delivering his opening remarks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, during the markup of health care legislation.

Wall Street has showered nearly $11 million on the U.S. Senate since the beginning of the year, and more than 15 percent of it has gone to a single senator: Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York.

Schumer's $1.65-million take from the financial services industry is nearly twice that of any other senator's - and more than five times what the industry gave to any single Republican senator.

While...

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