Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On Tuesday June 30, 2009 at the Buffalo Office of Empire State Development, Senator Schumer joined Governor David Paterson, Richard Kessel of the New York Power Authority, Congressman Chris Lee, representatives of Yahoo! Inc., along with many other New York elected officials to announce that Yahoo! would be bring a new data center to Lockport, located in Niagara County. Senator Schumer applauded Yahoo!'s decision to locate their new data center in Lockport, and discussed how a large company coming to Lockport truly shows that Western New York is a great place to do business. In addition, with Yahoo! locating in Lockport, many new long term high paying jobs will be created, along with many more short term construction jobs for the Western New York area. For more information on Senator Schumer please visit: www.schumer.senate.gov