Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On January 16th, 2016, at Student Assistance Services in Tarrytown, NY, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today demanded that his colleagues in Congress back up their rhetoric and support passage of desperately needed emergency funding to confront the exploding heroin, opioid and prescription drug epidemic. In Westchester County, drug overdose-related deaths increased by 117 percent between 2010 and 2013. Schumer said it is time for Congress to put its money where its mouth is and provide emergency funding for a recently-passed drug prevention bill. Schumer said this critical bill could put a huge dent in the drug epidemic, but Congress still needs to allocate money and not just empty promises. Schumer said emergency funding will significantly help communities like those in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties reduce and prevent future drug overdoses and deaths.