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This Past Weekend, SI Volunteers Spent Hours Picking Up Trash Along the Federally-Owned Crookes Point Fishing Area at Great Kills Park; NPS Maintains the Area But Anglers & Others Have Become Frustrated By Lack of Care Schumer Urges NPS to Immediately Clean Up Crookes Point – And Keep It That Way; Senator Says the Discovery of Hypodermic Needles & Other Dangerous Trash Highlight Major Public Health Concern Schumer to NPS: We Need Boots on the Sand ASAP to Clean Up the Beach at... Read More

Senator Says, With More Reported Lyme Infections Each Year & New Fear Of New Powassan Infected Ticks Emerging in the Hudson Valley, Feds Need To Stop Crawling While Tick-Borne Diseases Are In A Sprint To Spread Schumer: Summer Is Now In Full Swing, Feds Must Work Faster So Cures Are Delivered & So Public—Especially Kids—Are Better Protected Schumer To Feds: Use New Tools To OFF! Lyme Disease Ahead of what is projected to be one of the worst summers for tick-borne diseases in... Read More

While Serving Our Country in Vietnam, Vets Like Long Islander Jerry Chiano Swam in Vietnam’s Rivers & Ate Local Fish That May Now Be Linked to His Bile Duct Cancer; VA Does Not Recognize Bile Duct Cancer as a Service Related Illness And Denies Benefits Related ‎To This Disease   Schumer Calls on ‘National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine’ to Launch a New, Groundbreaking Investigation To Determine Whether Exposure to Parasites During Vietnam War Is... Read More

In A Letter And Personal Call To Joe McEacharn, The Eastern League’s President, Schumer Says Binghamton Would Be The Perfect Host For The All-Star Game In 2019 Or 2020 Schumer: Binghamton Is Ready To Knock This One Out Of The Park U.S Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today launched a campaign urging Minor League Baseball (MiLB) to host an Eastern League All-Star Game in Binghamton. The game would be played at NYSEG stadium, home to the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. In a letter and... Read More

Fed Funding Will Be Used to Support Cutting-Edge Research in the Medical Field U.S Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD) was awarded $547,000 for medical research. The funding was allocated through the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL).This funding will enable WIHD’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental... Read More

Vital Legislation Would, For The First Time Ever, Create A National Registry That Will Help Medical Professionals More Effectively Track And Treat Firefighters With Cancer; Firefighters Are Exposed To A Range Of Harmful Toxins And May Be At Increased Cancer Risk  Senator Will Say Legislation Could Help Save The Lives Of Our Brave Firefighters Who Put Their Life On The Line Everyday  Schumer Will Spark National Push To Protect NY’s Firefighters By Passing Cancer... Read More

Schumer: Bipartisan Bill Will Provide Feds With More Resources: Including Additional Border Agents And Scientists, Drug Labs, Training & New Portable Devices To Detect & Intercept Illicit Fentanyl And Other Synthetic Opioids  Senator Says Central New York Has Experienced An Explosion Of Drug Use Including Fentanyl-Laced Heroin & Meth, As Well As Drug-Related Crime  Schumer: Feds Need More Resources To Shutdown Stream Of Fentanyl From Ever Reaching... Read More

Schumer: Bipartisan Bill Will Provide Feds With More Resources: Including Additional Border Agents And Scientists, Drug Labs, Training & New Portable Devices To Detect & Intercept Illicit Fentanyl And Other Synthetic Opioids  Senator Says The Southern Tier Has Experienced An Explosion Of Drug Use Including Fentanyl-Laced Heroin & Meth, As Well As Drug-Related Crime Schumer: Feds Need More Resources To Shutdown Stream Of Fentanyl From Ever Reaching The... Read More

Federal Capital Fund Program Provides Funding for Housing Authorities to Develop, Modernize, Improve Facilities for Low-Income Families, Elderly, and People With Disabilities  U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand today announced $397,628,820 for housing authorities across New York State. The funds were allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Public Housing Capital Fund. Schumer and Gillibrand said the funding will... Read More

Schumer Announces Support for Senate Resolution That Says Turkish Gov’t Should Fully Acknowledge Armenian Genocide   Schumer: All Countries Should Recognize the Horrific Genocide That Occurred U.S Senator Charles Schumer announced that he will co-sponsor bipartisan Senate Resolution (S.Res.136) which aims to remember and commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The resolution, introduced by Senator Robert Menendez, explicitly says that the President should work... Read More

Federal Funding For City of Cortland Fire Department Will Be Used To Improve Operations, Upgrade Safety Infrastructure, and Purchase New Safety Equipment   U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $190,477, in federal funding for the Cortland Fire Department. The funding was allocated through the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG). The Cortland Fire Department will use... Read More

Upstate Niagara Will Acquire Kraft-Heinz’s Campbell Plant and Invest $10 Million, Avoiding Closure 2015 Agreement and State’s Follow Up Efforts Result in Four Facilities Remaining Open and Employing More Than 1,000 People in Upstate New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced an agreement has been reached that will save the at-risk Kraft-Heinz facility in Campbell, Steuben County, as well as at least 150 current employees. Upstate Niagara, a dairy... Read More

Federal Funding For Johnson City Fire Department Will Be Used To Purchase A Life-Saving High Performance Firefighting Turnout Gear Washing Machine U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced a total of $14,834 in federal funding for the Johnson City Fire Department in Broome County. This grant will be used to purchase a high performance firefighting turnout gear washing machine, which decontaminates firefighters’ gear. “It is... Read More

Schumer: Opioid Crisis Is So Immense and Awful, Senate GOP Must Reverse Course & Instead Work Across the Aisle to Protect Treatment Programs That Help Thousands of Upstate New Yorkers; Vows To Fight Bill And Urge His Colleagues To Do The Same Senator Said Upstate Has Experienced An Explosion Of Drug Use and Death, Including From Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Schumer: In the Face Of Wave of Opioid-Heroin Deaths, Eliminating Access To Drug Treatment Programs and Substance Abuse Care Would Be... Read More

EPA is the Preeminent Enviro Regulator & Unanswered Questions Demand “All Hands on Deck” Approach to Quickly Assess Any Radioactive History at the Site & Potential Pollution Impacts on Drinking Water EPA Experts Can Help Quickly Identify Source Of Radium Pollution – And The History Of Radioactive Material Use at the Navy/Grumman Site –So Remedial Action Can Take Place ASAP Schumer: The Community Needs Answers and Action ASAP on Radium Contamination of Underground... Read More

Schenectady Will Use Funds To Address Lead Hazards In Housing Units To Help Protect The Health & Safety Of Families & Children U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $2,999,754.87 in Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration (LHRD)  funding for the City of Schenectady. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to address lead hazards in 218 housing units, providing safer... Read More

Rochester Will Use Funds To Address Lead Hazards In Housing Units To Help Protect The Health & Safety Of Families & Children U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1,000,000.00 in Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration (LHRD) funding for the City of Rochester. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to address lead hazards in housing units, providing safer homes for low and... Read More

Following Tragic 2009 Plane Crash, Which Claimed The Lives Of 50 People, Families Of Flight 3407 Victims Fought To Create Tough Flight Safety Regulations, Including Requirement That Pilots Log 1,500 Flight Hours In Order To Receive Certificate Now Congress Must Re-Authorize The FAA This Year & Schumer, Gillibrand Say Some In The Industry Want To Roll Back Or Eliminate Safety Provisions Senators Vow To Continue To Fight Any & All Efforts To Make Air Travel Less Safe U.S. Senate Minority... Read More

Westhampton, NY - U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D, NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY), Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, NY-1), and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced today that a $150,000 federal grant has been awarded to Francis Gabreski Airport in Westhampton, home of the 106th Rescue Wing of the Air National Guard. The grant, secured through the U.S. Department of Transportation, is being provided to Suffolk County to begin an anti-obstruction project at Gabreski, which is a four-phase... Read More

On the heels of a cyber breach in the Long Island Town of Brookhaven, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the feds to launch an investigation to help locals uncover facts and recover from this attack. Schumer says that we must do everything we can to prevent threats like these and improve our cybersecurity. The Senator’s public letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) John Kelly appears below. Dear DHS Secretary John Kelly: I write today to urge the Department of Homeland... Read More