Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On August 8, 2023, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer visited the Sidney Municipal Airport to launch a new push to secure over $1.4 million from the Department of Labor’s Workforce Opportunity for Rural Communities (WORC) initiative for the Delaware County Electric Cooperative’s (DCEC) new line-worker training program, which would train at least 200 hundred workers for good-paying, union jobs in the Southern Tier. Senator Schumer also discussed the historic funding for rural electric co-ops in the Inflation Reduction Act, saying now is the time to double down on these investments with workforce training to maximize their effectiveness in creating good-paying local jobs and lowering utility costs for rural families.