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The National Science Foundation Just Launched A National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot To Shape America’s AI Innovation Ecosystem, And Schumer Says Upstate New York Is Primed To Lead The Way For AI In The USA Senator Says Upstate New York Is Already A Burgeoning Home To AI Innovation – From UB’s NSF AI Institute And Other Leading Research Universities Across NYS That Are Part Of The Recently Announced Empire AI Consortium, To Recent Tech Hub Designation For Semiconductors, Which Are The... Read More

Funding Comes From The Newest Round Of the Highly Competitive Airport Terminal Grant Program Schumer, Gillibrand: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Is Helping Buffalo Niagara International Airport Reach New Heights U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just awarded Buffalo Niagara International Airport a total of $4,400,000 in competitive federal... Read More

Funding Comes From The Newest Round Of the Highly Competitive Airport Terminal Grant Program, Which Received Major $$$ Boost In Bipartisan Infrastructure Law   Schumer, Gillibrand: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Is Helping Albany International Airport Reach New Heights U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Albany International Airport a... Read More

Earlier This Month, Sullivan County Head Start Suddenly Closed, Sparking Confusion And Leaving Local Parents Without Child Care & Dozens Of Employees Without Jobs Schumer, In A Letter To The Head Of HHS, Says We Need All-Hands-On-Deck Solution From Feds So A Head Start Program Can Resume Operations And Once Again Get Families The Care They Need Schumer: Sullivan County Families Lost Childcare Through No Fault Of Their Own, Feds Must Do Everything They Can To Expedite And Get Parents The Help... Read More

Following The Tragic 2009 Plane Crash, Schumer Fought Alongside Families Of Flight 3407 Victims To Create Critical Flight Safety Regulations, Including Requirement That Pilots Log 1,500 Flight Hours In Order To Receive Certificate, Among Other Lifesaving Reforms Schumer Has Been Working In Lockstep With The Flight 3407 Families, Helping Elevate Their Voices, And Ensuring The Reauthorization Of The FAA In The Senate Protects Legacy Of The 15 Year Long Fight –Senator Will Continue Fight As Bill... Read More

Thanks To Schumer’s Years Of Work, CHESS Went From Once Being On The Chopping Block For Fed Funding To Growing Cutting-Edge Facility Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) Is One Of Only Two High-Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Sources In U.S.; Lab Has Generated Revolutionary Scientific Research In Numerous Fields, Including Discoveries That Led To Two Nobel Prizes – Now Lab Is Growing With New Cutting-Edge XLEAP Beamline Schumer: Fed $$$ Is Supercharging New Growth At Cornell’s CHESS... Read More

Fed $$$ Will Make Hydroelectric Efficiency Improvements, From The North Country To The Hudson Valley, Including Wildlife And Environmental Restoration, All While Bolstering Clean-Energy Workforce With Good-Paying Jobs    Schumer: Major Fed $$$ Is Flowing To Power Upstate NY Communities With Clean Energy, Good Jobs And Combat Effects Of Climate Change U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced nearly $11 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hydroelectric... Read More

After Tropical Storm Fred In 2021, Wood Brook Culvert On Burgess Street Was Damaged And Needed Improvements To Prevent Future Flooding For Nearby Auburn Neighborhood Senators Helped Secure Major Disaster Declaration Allowing Auburn To Tap Federal Funding For Long-Needed Project To Improve Flood-Prevention Infrastructure Schumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$ Are Now Flowing To Strengthen Flood Protections For Auburn Homes And Businesses U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator... Read More

Schumer Helped Create This Program Through His CHIPS & Science Law & Fought For Months To Elevate Upstate NY, Personally Calling The Head Of The NSF Multiple Times To Showcase BU’s Ability To Spark Battery Industry Growth - Now The BU Led Project Will Receive $15M Now And Up To $160M Over The Next Decade Thanks To Schumer, Binghamton University-Led NENY Project Is A Clear National Leader, Achieving The Triple Threat Of Winning Build Back Better Regional Challenge, Federal Tech Hubs... Read More

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) Can Be Serious For Young Children, But The Brand New Potentially Lifesaving Medication Released Last Year For RSV Is Seeing Shortages Across Country, Including Central NY Pediatricians Are The First Line Of Defense In Protecting Kids Against RSV, But Without Adequate And Consistent Vaccine Supply, More Infants Could Get Infected; Schumer Says Feds And Manufacturers Need To Step Up To Ensure We Stop These Shortages, Fix Supply Chain Issues And Make Sure... Read More

Bipartisan Undetectable Firearms Act – For The First Time In A Decade Could Expire In One Month – Threatening Safety Of Sporting Events, Concerts, Airports, And More By Making Fully-Plastic Guns — That Could Slip Through Metal Detectors —Legal Schumer: Keeping Fully-Plastic Undetectable Ghost Guns Illegal Is Commonsense, And Congress Must Act Now To Keep These Deadly Weapons Off Our Streets Standing with Albany police officers, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed that,... Read More

Laborers’ Local 1822, Covering Workers in North Country, Along With Thousands Of Union Families Across America, Were Victims Of A Pension System Collapse; Without Action, After a Lifetime of Hard Work, Many Could Not Retire Or Would Have Little Benefits Remaining In Schumer’s First Major Bill As Majority Leader, The American Rescue Plan, He Secured The Critical Fix To Multiemployer Pension Plans To Give Unions Workers The Benefits They Earned Schumer: Restoring Pensions For Hundreds Of North... Read More

NEA Grants Help Support Artists, Musicians, As Well As Research And Learning In History, Literature, Arts, & Other Areas Of The Humanities Schumer, Gillibrand: Investing In The Arts Is How We Paint A More Vibrant Picture For New York’s Future! U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $8,018,255  for nearly 300 grants distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to organizations across New York State.  The senators said... Read More

Local Hudson Valley Cops Waited 4+ Years For “Equitable Share” Covering Long & Productive Hours Helping Feds Bust Regional Crime Rings, But With Bureaucratic Red Tape Creating No End In Sight And Hurting Their Bottom Lines, Senator Schumer Stood With Law Enforcement To Demand Action And Get The $$$ They Were Owed Schumer Personally Spoke To The Head Of The DEA And Worked For Months To Get Feds To Stop Dragging Their Feet, And Now Police Departments — Including Rockland, Westchester, Putnam... Read More

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) Can Be Serious For Young Children, But The Brand New Potentially Lifesaving Medication Released Last Year For RSV Is Seeing Shortages Across Country, Including Western NY With Respiratory Viruses Like RSV, Flu And COVID Facing Increased Risk During Cold Weather – Now Schumer Is Calling On Feds And Manufacturers To Step Up To Ensure We Stop These Shortages Schumer: New RSV Immunization Can Be A Life Saver, We Need To Make Sure Pediatricians And... Read More

For Months, Fed Inaction Held Up Black Button Distilling’s Expansion Plans To Open NYS’ Largest-Ever Bourbon Barrel Aging Warehouse on Lyell Ave in Rochester– Last Week, Schumer Launched Efforts To Get TTB To Stop Dragging Feet So Plans Could Move Forward Now, Feds Have Heeded Schumer’s Calls And Approved Black Button’s Plans In Rochester To Expand And Turn Great NY-Grown Agricultural Products Into More Barrels Of Great NY-Grown Bourbon   Schumer: Rochester Can Now Cheers To Black Button... Read More

Last Year, NYDOT Identified Potential Structural Failures Of Gillett Road Bridge, But Because CSX Took No Action, Bridge Was Forced To Close, Cutting off Motorists and Disrupting Residents’ Commutes and Traffic Patterns For Monroe County Residents – Now CSX Claims it Abandoned Bridge Ownership Decades Ago, Despite Records Showing CSX Made Bridge Repairs As Recently as 2009.  Schumer Says Although CSX Has Had Months To Make Repairs, They Instead Stood Idle Putting Community At Risk, And It Is... Read More

Black Button Distilling Has Major Expansion Plans To Build NYS’ Largest-Ever Bourbon Barrel Warehouse on Lyell Ave in Rochester And Hire More New Yorkers, But Due To Fed Inaction They Have Been Waiting For Months To Move Forward With Plans To Turn Great NY-Grown Agricultural Products Into More Barrels Of Great NY-Grown Bourbon Now, Schumer Is Calling On TTB To Approve Black Button’s Plans To Help Unstick Bureaucracy And Help Unlock Bourbon Industry Growth For Rochester Schumer: Unnecessary Wait... Read More

Buffalo’s William Street Mail Processing Center Is A Central Hub For Mail Delivery In WNY, But Now USPS Is Considering Transferring Some Operations To Rochester – Leading To Serious Concerns Of Slowed Mail Delivery And Added Obstacles For Local Workers To Do Their Jobs Schumer Is Now Demanding Answers From The Postmaster General For WNY As The Public and Union Postal Workers Feel In The Dark On Proposed Changes —And Says Community Voices Must Be Heard Throughout This Process Schumer To... Read More

"Secretary Blinken’s fourth visit to Israel since the attacks of October 7 demonstrates the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship as Israel reaches a milestone in the effort to dramatically reduce the threat of Hamas and our commitment to doing everything we can to bring the hostages home. I welcome Israel’s intended withdrawal of select forces in northern Gaza, and a new, more targeted phase of operations in the North. As the operations continue to ensure Hamas can never again repeat the... Read More