美国参议员克里斯·范霍伦对查克·舒默领导参议院民主党人的地位发起挑战，这在意识形态和履历上都与该党形成鲜明对比，而民主党将在两个月后掌控国会。
US senator Chris Van Hollen’s challenge to Chuck Schumer’s leadership of Senate Democrats presents an ideological and biographical contrast to the party as it takes control of Congress in two months.
尽管范霍伦仅比舒默小八岁左右，但他被视为一位更具进步派色彩的参议员，因反对特朗普政府滥用移民权力——探望其选民基尔马尔·阿布雷戈·加西亚，后者被非法驱逐至萨尔瓦多——以及反对联邦腐败和美国支持以色列政府在加沙的战争而受到关注。
Though only about eight years younger than Schumer, Van Hollen is seen as a more progressive senator who has drawn attention for his opposition to the Trump administration’s abusive immigration practices – visiting his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García after an unlawful deportation to El Salvador – as well as opposition to federal corruption and US support for the Israeli government’s war in Gaza.
范霍伦的父亲是一名外交官，母亲是一名间谍。他出生于卡拉奇，在国外长大，后返回美国在马萨诸塞州读高中。现年67岁的范霍伦获得斯沃斯莫尔学院哲学学位，随后在哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院获得公共政策硕士学位，专攻国家安全研究。他在攻读乔治城大学法学学位期间（1990年获得）曾担任美国参议院助理。
Van Hollen’s father was a diplomat and his mother was a spy. Born in Karachi and raised abroad before returning to the US for high school in Massachusetts, Van Hollen, 67, earned a philosophy degree from Swarthmore College, then a masters of public policy concentrating in national security studies from Harvard’s John F Kennedy school of government. He worked as a US Senate staffer while studying for a law degree from Georgetown University, which he earned in 1990.
同年，他赢得马里兰州众议院代表席位，代表蒙哥马利县，并因在环保事业、枪支管制和公共教育方面的强力倡导而建立声誉。四年后，他赢得州参议员席位，任职至2002年，当时他向深受欢迎的温和派共和党众议员康斯坦斯·A·莫雷拉发起挑战。那一年民主党在全国范围内惨败；范霍伦的胜利是个例外。
He won a seat in the Maryland house of delegates in the same year, representing Montgomery county, and developed a reputation for fierce advocacy for environmental causes, gun control and public education. Four years later, he won a state senate seat, which he held until challenging a popular moderate Republican congresswoman, Constance A Morella, in 2002. Democrats nationally took a beating that year; Van Hollen’s success was an outlier.
范霍伦的政策资历和长期的政治关系使他迅速晋升为国会领导层职务，这些职位通常留给资历更深的国会议员。2008年，他接替拉姆·伊曼纽尔担任民主党国会竞选委员会主席，该委员会是民主党众议员竞选的筹款机构。在大金融危机期间，范霍伦是国会关键谈判人之一。
Van Hollen’s policy credentials and longstanding political relationships allowed him to rise quickly into congressional leadership roles usually reserved for more tenured congresspeople. He chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House fundraising arm for electing Democrats, taking over for Rahm Emanuel in 2008. Van Hollen was a key congressional negotiator during the Great Financial Crisis.
2016年，美国参议员芭芭拉·米库尔斯基在任职30年后退休，范霍伦成为马里兰州政治建制派青睐的继任者，并获得参议院民主党领袖哈里·里德的支持。范霍伦随后成为参议院的主要筹款人。
When US senator Barbara Mikulski retired after 30 years in office in 2016, Van Hollen emerged as the favored successor by Maryland’s political establishment and had the support of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. Van Hollen became the Senate’s chief fundraiser.
尽管身兼此职，范霍伦长期反对“联合公民诉联邦选举委员会案”裁决，该裁决为企业在政治竞选中的支出打开了方便之门。范霍伦是数十名提交法庭之友简报以捍卫联邦支出限制的立法者之一，并多次呼吁通过宪法修正案推翻该裁决。
Despite this role, Van Hollen has long opposed the Citizens United ruling that opened the floodgates for corporate spending on political campaigns. Van Hollen was one of dozens of lawmakers who filed an amicus brief in the case to defend federal spending limits and has repeatedly called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.
范霍伦也是参议院民主党人中对以色列政府及其在加沙行动批评最尖锐的议员之一。作为两国方案的长期支持者，范霍伦于2024年1月前往埃及与加沙之间的拉法口岸考察援助物资运送情况，并宣布援助流程“已崩溃”。随后，范霍伦投票支持美国参议员伯尼·桑德斯提出的一项决议，要求将《对外援助法》的人权条款适用于美国对以军事援助。该决议以11票赞成、72票反对未获通过，大多数民主党人也投了反对票。
Van Hollen has also been one of senate Democrats’ sharpest critics of the Israeli government and its actions in Gaza. Long a supporter of a two-state solution, Van Hollen visited the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza in January 2024 to observe aid shipments, declaring the assistance process “broken”. Van Hollen subsequently voted for a resolution proposed by US senator Bernie Sanders to apply the human rights provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act to US military aid to Israel. The resolution failed 72-11, with most Democrats also opposing the measure.
范霍伦于2025年11月撰写的一份报告将这场战争描述为“一项将巴勒斯坦人从加沙进行种族清洗的计划”，并指出“美国是帮凶”。范霍伦致力于终止向以色列运送武器，并反对在《国防授权法案》中达成美以安全协议。
Van Hollen authored a report in November 2025 which described the war as a “plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians”, and that “America is complicit.”Van Hollen has worked to end arms shipments to Israel and opposes American security agreements with Israel in the National Defense Authorization Act.
范霍伦还是加密货币和去中心化金融的批评者，这一点使他区别于舒默以及民主党与纽约金融市场的政治联系。
Van Hollen is also a critic of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance in ways that distinguish him from Schumer and Democratic political ties to the New York financial markets.
“正如我们一再看到的那样，如果不加监管，加密货币和数字资产充斥着被滥用的机会，”范霍伦在一份反对《清晰法案》的声明中说，该法案是共和党提出的一揽子金融监管方案。范霍伦一直在推动立法，禁止联邦官员持有或推广加密货币，并特别指出了总统获得的数十亿美元收益。
“As we’ve seen time and again, cryptocurrency and digital assets are rife with opportunity for abuse if left unchecked,” Van Hollen said in a statement opposing the Clarity Act, a financial regulatory package offered by Republicans. Van Hollen has pursued legislation to ban federal officials from owning or promoting cryptocurrency, pointedly highlighting the president’s billion-dollar gains.
在上周的大选后采访中，范霍伦辩称，民主党“不应在追究企业、亿万富翁和选民指责为让他们生活更艰难的特殊利益集团的责任时过于谨慎”。
Speaking in post-election interviews last week, Van Hollen argued that Democrats “should not be overly cautious in going after corporations, billionaires and special interests that voters blame for making their lives harder”.