Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On November 19, 2020 standing at Environmental Composites Inc., Senate Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer unveiled his plan to ramp up domestic production of PPE, including N95 masks, with the help of Upstate New York’s small businesses. Schumer explained that the Protect Our Heroes Act of 2020 provides $1 billion in federal, Small Business Administration (SBA) grants for small businesses, like Environmental Composites Inc., to retool domestic facilities to produce critical PPE over the next two years, with special considerations available for minority-owned and other socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses as well as those owned by service-disabled veterans with considerations for other veteran-owned businesses.