(it was numbered the 16th from 1981-1983, the 10th from 1983-1993 and the 9th from 1993). In 1998, he won the Democratic Senate primary against Mark Green and Geraldine Ferraro . He then defeated three-term incumbent Republican Al D'Amato , who had defeated Holtzman in 1980. In 2004, Schumer handily won re-election