Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On October 19, 2018, standing in Fonda, NY, beside the CSX main freight line, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer called on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to reverse course and leave-in-place the rule created by a provision Congress passed in the Fixing America’s Surface Transport (FAST) Act of 2015 that requires freight carriers to equip high hazard flammable unit trains carrying crude oil or hazardous materials with Electronically Controlled Pneumatic (ECP) brakes by 2023. Specifically, Schumer explained that PHMSA, earlier this year, amended the rule to strip away this critical requirement.