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Senators Say New FEMA Funding – At A 90% Federal Cost Share – Will Boost Cayuga Medical Center For Key Power Infrastructure Upgrades, Improving The Hospital’s Ability To Operate During Extreme Weather Like Blizzards Schumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$ Is Generating The Resources So Cayuga Medical Center Can Keep Up Lifesaving Care In The Southern Tier U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $10,450,800 million in federal funding from the U.S.... Read More

Funding Is A Part Of $5.8 Billion Investment For Water Infrastructure Across The Country Announced Yesterday By The Biden Administration Senators Say New York State Has Some Of The Oldest Water Systems In The Country And Funding Will Provide Long-Overdue, Critical Support To Modernize Drinking Water And Wastewater Infrastructure Schumer, Gillibrand: Major Fed $$$ Is Flowing To NY To Upgrade Critical Water Systems And Infrastructure Thanks To Our Bipartisan Infrastructure & Jobs Act! U.S.... Read More

Bipartisan Undetectable Firearms Act – For The First Time In A Decade Could Expire In Less Than One Month – Threatening Safety Of Courthouses, Sporting Events, Concerts, Airports, And More By Making Fully-Plastic Guns — That Could Slip Through First Line Defenses Like Metal Detectors And X-Rays —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 Onondaga County criminal... Read More

GlobalFoundries Plans To Construct New State-Of-The-Art Fab In Malta & Invest Over $12 Billion Into Expanding Operations Over The Next 10+ Years, Adding Thousands Of New Good-Paying Manufacturing And Union Construction Jobs Schumer Created CHIPS Program, Including Key Support For Legacy Chips Like Those Made By GlobalFoundries Which Are Critical To Our National Security And Essential To The Auto Industry That Saw Prices Sky Rocket During The Pandemic Due To Chip Shortages Schumer: Because Of... Read More

Senator Says Damaged Breakwater No Longer Keeping Out Sediment And Years of Sediment Build-Up Jeopardizing Chautauqua County’s Vibrant Summer Tourist Economy; Now, He Is Fighting To Deliver Funding He Secured In The Final Appropriations Bill Expected To Be Voted On Next Month New Funding Builds On The Millions Schumer Delivered In 2022 For Dredging Across Chautauqua County, Including Barcelona, Cattaraugus Creek, & Dunkirk Harbors Schumer: Chautauqua Tourism Economy Depend On Repairs To The... 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 Upstate 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; Thanks To Schumer’s Efforts More Doses Were Released Last Month, And Now, Senator Is Continuing His Push Calling On Feds And... Read More

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