Chuck opens the Nasdaq on January 2, 2002.

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Chuck's Activities
Here are some highlights of what Chuck has done for New York City during his tenure in the Senate. For a complete index of New York City related press releases, please scroll down or click here.

• Chuck's Group of 35, consisting of business, community, and academic leaders, developed a comprehensive plan to meet NYC's long-term economic needs by bringing 60 million square feet of office space and 300,000 new office jobs to currently underdeveloped areas like Long Island City and Downtown Brooklyn.
  
  
• In May, 2001, Chuck worked with with Jesse Jackson, Fannie Mae, and the New York Bankers Association to fight predatory lending in African American communities by creating a new pilot program that helps residents in Queens and Brooklyn obtain conventional mortgages and home loans .
  
  
• Chuck secured $92 million to help New York City hire over 1,000 new community police officers. In December, 2000, Congress passed a version of Chuck's bill to provide over $125 million to clear the rape-kit backlog, including a 15,000 rape kit backlog in New York City alone. Chuck recently wrote legislation to improve forensic evidence collection in hospitals across New York City, helping police and prosecutors catch and convict people who commit sexual assaults.
  
  
• Over the last two years, Chuck brought in $1.75 billion to improve the New York-New Jersey harbor by deepening it to meet the demands of modern container vessels, and obtained $83 million more to keep the work going.
  
  
• Working with the New York Congressional delegation, Chuck helped gain $200 million in the FY 2001 budget to fund 60 projects designed to help New York City's cultural institutions, harbors, roads, mass transit, airports, parks, schools and hospitals.
  
  
• In July, 2000 Chuck unveiled a plan to fight Medicaire cuts at NYC hospitals that had thrown the system into crisis and then delivered with a $405 million relief package later that year.
  
  
• Chuck has been a leader in the effort to solve New York City's blood shortage emergency. After giving blood himself and calling on New Yorkers to do the same, donation levels reached record highs, and Chuck teamed up with the Yankees to offer New Yorkers incentives to donate. Chuck has also has been fighting to make sure the federal government does its part to end the crisis , and worked with America's Blood Center and the New York Blood Center to arrange the donation of 75,000 pints of blood, annually, to New York City.
  
  
• Chuck is working to bring fairness to the immigration process, cracking down on fraudulent immigrant consultants .
  
  
• Chuck obtained over $45 million for NYC transportation projects like the East Side Access Project, Whitehall and 38th Street Ferry Terminals, Jamaica Station, the Van Wyck Expressway Corridor and LaGuardia Airport, pulled in $23 million more in subway funding, and led the struggle against travel misery at LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark.
  
  
• Chuck helped get H-1B Visas for 162 Canadian teachers in time for the 2001 school year to alleviate the teacher-shortage crisis in our public schools.
  
  
• After years of work, the Senate passed Chuck's financial modernization law to bring one of New York's most important industries into the 21st Century while maintaining and enhancing competition and consumer safeguards.

Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, Chuck has worked tirelessly to help New York recover and rebuild. On September 13, Chuck, along with Senator Clinton, secured a commitment from President Bush to provide $20 billion in federal funding to help New York pay for recovery and relief efforts. Chuck also helped create the federal Victims Compensation Fund, which helps the families of those lost on September 11 or anyone physically injured in the attack continue with their lives by providing the family with all of the money the person killed or injured would have earned over his or her lifetime, all within five months of filing the claim. Chuck and Senator Clinton also successfully lobbied for $5 billion in aid for New York in the economic stimulus package pending before the Senate.

In addition, Chuck:

• Helped broker a compromise between Senate Democrats and the Bush Administration to support the antiterrorism bill.
• Helped write new laws cracking down on money laundering.
• Wrote new legislation providing federal terrorism reinsurance to make it easier for private companies to obtain insurance.
• Wrote legislation that would make terrorist hoaxes a federal crime.
• Lobbied the NFL to hold this year's Super Bowl in New York (at the Meadowlands in New Jersey).
• Wrote legislation with Senator Clinton allowing the FBI to share information with local law enforcement like the NYPD.
• Nominated Father Mychal Judge, the fallen New York Fire Department Chaplain, for the US Medal of Freedom.
• Worked with the US Embassy in Santo Domingo to expedite visa approvals for families of the victims of American Airlines Flight 587.
• Obtained liability protection for New York City and the Port Authority in the airport security bill.
• Fought for increased funding to enhance rail and Amtrak security.
• Fought for increased funding for port security.
• Called for a national sales tax holiday to boost consumer spending.
  

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