Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
Standing at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, in the wake of reports that over 675 children in Syracuse were poisoned by lead last year, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer launched a major push to include a $30 million increase for the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes in the final conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations bill, bringing total funding for the program to $260 million. Schumer explained that the critical Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes provides grant funding to cities and municipalities to remove lead hazards from communities. Additionally, Schumer reiterated his support for the City of Syracuse’s application for grant funding through the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2018, under the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to combat the ongoing threat of lead throughout the city. Schumer said that lead poisoning poses a major threat to public health in Syracuse, particularly to children, and called on his colleagues in Congress and HUD to do everything possible to help reduce the danger of lead poisoning.