Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On May 6, 2019, at the Colonie Senior Services Center, and in the wake of costly telephone-based scams rearing their ugly head across New York State last week, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer launched a major push to pass the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. The TRACED Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and John Thune (R-SD) and cosponsored by Schumer, would give federal agencies newfound tools and authority to trace, prosecute, and enforce fines against robocall scammers, as well as establish new requirements related to call authentication technology that could filter out robocalls before they reach the phones of unsuspecting New Yorkers. According to Schumer, despite federal ‘Do Not Call’ rules, robocalls and unwanted spam calls are getting worse by the day in New York State, with a staggering 290.3 million reported in April of this year alone.