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City of Rochester & Town of Gates Fire Depts. Will Use Funding to Provide Rescue Training & Purchase Life-Saving Equipment in Order to Keep Firefighters Safe  U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced a total of $461,938 in federal funding for two Rochester area fire departments. Specifically, the City of Rochester will receive $115,249 in federal funding and the Town of Gates Fire District will receive $346,689. These federal funds were allocated... Read More

Proposed Federal Local Hiring Pilot Program and Rule Would Allow Transit Agencies Across The Country Receiving Fed Funds to Require All Buses and Trains Be Produced Locally, Meaning All Manufacturers & Workers Must Be Located in That Specific City to Bid on a Contract – Schumer Says This Rule Could Have Disastrous, Unintended Consequences For Jobs in the North Country   Under New Rule, Rural-Based Companies Like Bombardier & Nova Bus and & Prevost in Plattsburgh –... Read More

Proposed Federal Local Hiring Pilot Program and Rule Would Allow Transit Agencies Across The Country Receiving Fed Funds to Require All Buses and Trains Be Produced Locally, Meaning All Manufacturers & Workers Must Be Located in That Specific City to Bid on a Contract – Schumer Says This Rule Could Have Disastrous, Unintended Consequences For Jobs in the Southern Tier   Under New Rule, Rural-Based Companies Like Alstom & CAF USA in the Southern Tier  – Which Produce... Read More

Proposed Federal Local Hiring Pilot Program and Rule Would Allow Transit Agencies Across The Country Receiving Fed Funds to Require All Buses and Trains Be Produced Locally, Meaning All Manufacturers & Workers Must Be Located in That Specific City to Bid on a Contract – Schumer Says This Rule Could Have Disastrous, Unintended Consequences For Jobs in Rochester Finger Lakes Area  Under New Rule, Companies Like Alstom in Rochester And Coach & Equipment in Penn Yan – Which... Read More

Upstate NY Dairy Farmers Are Saddled With Lump-Sum Insurance Payments Through Turbulent Milk Prices –Schumer Pushes USDA To Create New Payment Program Where Coops and Farmers Could Work Together to Spread Out Milk Insurance Payments Through Deduction System   NY Dairy Farmers & Upstate NY Co-Ops, Which Buy & Market Milk, Have Expressed Need to Spread Out Payments Through New Kind of Payment Program; Co-Ops or Private Companies Would Pay Costs Up Front For Farmers & Farmers... Read More

Schumer Says Greek Yogurt Will Be Added To The List Of Available Items In The School Lunch Program; After The Last Successful Pilot Program, Which Schumer Helped Make a Reality Across Twelve States, Feds Concluded That There Is Nutritional Value and High Demand For Greek Yogurt Schumer Previously Urged the USDA to Expand Successful Greek Yogurt Pilot Program, With Idea Of Providing High-Nutrition Protein Option For Kids And Increase Demand For Greek Yogurt Nationwide – NY’s Own... Read More

Schumer, Gillibrand Say the City of Buffalo Needs an 8-Month Extension From HUD To Complete Vital Community Housing Projects; City Could Lose Millions in Funding if Program Expenditure Period is Not Extended   City is Making Solid Progress on Projects, But Delays, Including the Loss of 2013 Construction Season Due to Bureaucratic Changes Mandated By HUD, Require an Extended Timeline   Schumer, Gillibrand to HUD: Grant This Extension And Let Buffalo Finish The Job On Important Community... Read More

Deliberately False Alerts In Rochester Are Causing The Deployment Of Armed SWAT Teams, Bomb Squads, And Other Police Units, to Unsuspecting Area Residents & Causing the Closure of Streets, Businesses; Resulting In A Terrifying Experience For Victims & Puts Communities At Great Risk  Schumer Introduces Legislation To Increase Penalties For Swatting Perpetrators From a Max of 5 Years In Prison To 8 Years, Make Criminals Pay Restitution to Police –Also Pushes to Closes... Read More

Schumer: During The Busiest 50-70 Days Per Year, Wait Times At Lewiston-Queenstown Bridge Regularly Exceed One Hour – and Have Peaked at Nearly Three Hours, Which has Detrimental Impact on the Regional Economy; Canadian Shoppers and Businesses Spend $1.7 Billion Per Year in New York State   Schumer Urges CBP & GSA to Fund Desperately Needed Plaza Expansion To Improve Traffic Flow, Bolster the Regional Economy, & Create and Protect Jobs in WNY   Schumer: Lewiston Plaza... Read More

Schumer, Blumenthal Announce Legislation That Will Require Railroads to Implement PTC by 2018 & Require Status Reports on Progress; ‘Positive Train Control Safety Act’ Also Requires Trains Carrying Crude Oil To Run On Tracks With PTC, Aiming to Avoid Future Explosive Crashes   Schumer, Blumenthal Legislation Stands in Contrast to Other Efforts in Congress to Give Railroads an Additional 5 Years to Implement Life-Saving PTC Technology; Senators Say 5 Years is Far... Read More

Schumer Led Legislation to Extend Key Support Programs for Rural Emergency Medical Services Providers for New Yorkers – Rural EMS Agencies Get an Extension Through 2018 With Passage of Bipartisan Deal   Without This Extension, $19.8 Million in Funding for over 450 Ambulance Service Providers That Treat High Number of Medicare Patients Across NY State Would be Lost   Schumer: Upstate Ambulance Providers Can Rest Easy That Critical Medicare Funding Will Last until 2018 U.S. Senator... Read More

Funds Will Allow Community Health Centers to Continue Improving Access to Critical Health and Primary Care Services for Residents Across NY State   Schumer Previously Pushed Legislation to Be Included in Must-Pass Legislation to Avoid ‘Primary Care Funding Cliff’ That Faced These Community Health Centers if Funding Were to Expire   Schumer: Funding Extension Means NY Can Keep an Essential Piece of Our Health Care in Place   Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer... Read More

Children’s Health Insurance Program Is A Critical Lifeline for Low- To Moderate-Income Families and Pregnant Women, And Will Now Be Extended Through 2017 – CHIP Supports Comprehensive Care & Is Critical For Families Whose Income Is Too High to Qualify For Medicaid; A Family of 4 Can Make Up To $100K & Qualify for CHIP   In March, Schumer Pushed Bill To Extend Program; More Than 116,000 Upstate NY Families Would Have Lost Out on $414 Million in Fed Funds if Critical CHIP... Read More

Schumer Led Legislation to Extend Key Rural Hospital Support Programs for Hospitals That Treat New Yorkers Who Rely Heavily on Medicare & Other Critical-Care Programs; Low Volume Hospital (LVH) and Medicare Dependent Hospital (MDH) Programs will provide a total of 20 hospitals across New York State With Over $34 Million Over the Next 2.5 Years    Rural Hospitals Count on This Funding Each Year; Additional Funding Stream Would Have Expired if Congress Failed to Act –... Read More

New Children’s Hospital at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus Will Be Completed in 2017 & Replace Current Women & Children’s Hospital in Buffalo, as the Only Emergency Pediatric Care Facility in Western NY   Schumer, Higgins Say it is Critical the New John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital Has a Helipad for Transporting Patients in Life-Threatening Situations – But Feds Must First Approve the Project Before Landing Pad Construction Can Begin   Schumer,... Read More

Schumer Bill Would Give Greater Recourse to NYers Who Have Returns Stolen: Victims Would Have a Single Designated Contact at IRS and the IRS Would be Required to Pay Refunds to Victims Within An Average of 90 Days – Currently, Taxpayers Wait On Average Over 300 Days To Have Cases Resolved   Tax-Refund Fraud has Increased In Recent Years Since Online Filing Became Popular, Over 2.3 million Victims Nationally in 2014 and Likely to Increase this Year; Schumer Legislation Would Also... Read More

Federal Funds Will Help Provide Financial Counseling Services to New Homebuyers, Homeowners, Renters   U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide $12,359 in federal funding for the Franklin County Community Housing Council. This money will be provided through HUD’s Housing Counseling Program to help these organizations improve financial literacy, expand homeownership... Read More

Federal Funds Will Help City of Fulton Community Development Agency Provide Financial Counseling Services to New Homebuyers, Homeowners, Renters U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will provide $10,533 in federal funding to the City of Fulton Community Development Agency, located in Oswego County. This money will be provided through HUD’s Housing Counseling Program to help this organization... Read More

Health and Compensation Programs Passed Into Law After Almost Decade Long Fight Set to Expire This Year – Participants in 9/11 Health Program Living in All 50 States and 429 of 435 Congressional Districts Washington, D.C. – After nearly a decade long fight to stand by our first responders who answered the call of duty on September 11th, Congress finally fulfilled its moral obligation in late 2010 and provided our 9/11 heroes with the health care and financial compensation they... Read More

Catholic Charities Operates the NYS Disaster Case Management Program for Sandy Victims & Provides 120 Caseworkers Who Help Victims Navigate the Recovery Process; With Approx. 3,000 Cases Still Pending, Program Was Set to Run Out of Funding  Schumer Announces, After His Push, FEMA Has Approved Over $2 Million to Help Disaster Case Management Program Continue Through October 2015  Schumer: This FEMA Funding Will Help Approx. 3,000 Sandy Victims Who Are Still In Need of Case... Read More