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Xylazine, Known On The Street As ‘Tranq,” Has Been Linked To Dozens Of Overdose Deaths Across Upstate And Is Already Spreading Through Jefferson & St. Lawrence County Streets – Causing Fear Among Law Enforcement & Local Addiction Service Professionals – As The Drug Is Narcan Resistant Schumer Wants Feds To Accelerate Import Crack Down And Better Track Down Dangerous Xylazine Wave Heading Towards Watertown And Across Upstate NY – By Working With Local Law... Read More

Schumer Secured Fed Funding Will Allow Broome Urban League, United Way of Broome County, and Leadership Alliance To Directly Tackle Childcare Deserts In Greater Binghamton, Expanding Programs And Creating Up To 475 New Slots For Families In Need Schumer: Investing In Children & Families Of Broome County Is Investing In The Future Of The Southern Tier U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced he has secured a major federal investment of $750,000 to expand access to... Read More

After Personally Calling USDOT To Help Secure $55 Million From “Reconnecting Communities” Program, Buttigieg Joins Schumer In Buffalo To See Firsthand How Buffalo Can Be A National Model For Equity Schumer: Buffalo’s Neighborhoods Were Torn Apart By The Kensington Expressway – Fed $$$ Will Help Bridge Divides And Reconnect Communities Following his successful push to secure $55 million for the redesign of Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway from the Bipartisan... Read More

President Biden’s Proposed Budget Will Improve Lives In Every Corner Of The Empire State – Making Major Investments In Programs Essential To Upstate, All While Cutting The Deficit By Nearly $3 Trillion Over 10 Years  Senator Details What Happens Next With The Budget As He Rallies To Ensure Upstate Is Not Left Out  Schumer: Budget Proposal Was Created With Upstate Families And Workers In Mind U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed how the... Read More

Deadly December Blizzard Slammed Buffalo And Upstate Communities With Historic Amounts Of Snow – Bringing Hurricane Force Winds, Impossible Road Conditions And Tragically Resulting In Nearly 50 New Yorkers Losing Their Lives Senators Fought Non-Stop To Elevate Buffalo’s Requests For Help To Highest Levels of Government, Writing - Multiple Letters- With Schumer Personally Lobbying President Biden On Air Force One, Calling The FEMA Administrator, And White House Chief Of Staff Multiple... Read More

Schumer Has Been Relentless In His Calls For EPA To Set A Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) For Highly Toxic PFOA/PFOS Chemicals; Majority Leader Also Included $10 Billion in The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for PFAS Clean-up   Senator Says EPA’s Proposed New Nat’l Drinking Water Standard Is MAJOR Step In The Right Direction To Protect NY From PFAS Pollution Schumer: This Critical Step Will Make Drinking Water Safer Across New YorkFollowing years of advocacy to clean up... Read More

Funding Will Bolster Recruitment And Restart Cortland’s Successful “Bunk In” Program To Give College Age Students Firsthand Experience To Become Firefighters Schumer Helped Create The AFG & SAFER Grant Which Delivered Today’s Funding- And Says Boosts Like This Are Why He Is Fighting To Save The Program From Being Eliminated This YearSchumer, Gillibrand: Fed $$$ Will Help Train the Next Generation of Firefighters In Cortland To Keep Community SafeU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer... Read More

Earlier This Month, A Freight Train Going Through Rockland Collided with A Semi Stuck on CSX Tracks, Which Is No Stranger to Flammable Crude & Toxic Materials, Renewing Concerns After East Palestine Disaster & Newburgh’s 2017 CSX Derailment That Leaked 4,600+ Gallons of Diesel Fuel Near the Hudson River Schumer, In A Personal Meeting with CSX CEO, Sounded Alarm on Dangerous Rockland Rail Crossing & Secured A Major Commitment to Finally Replace By The End Of 2023 West... Read More

Earlier This Month, A Freight Train Going Through Rockland Collided with A Semi Stuck on CSX Tracks, Which Is No Stranger to Flammable Crude & Toxic Materials, Renewing Concerns After East Palestine Disaster & Newburgh’s 2017 CSX Derailment That Leaked 4,600+ Gallons of Diesel Fuel Near the Hudson River Schumer, In A Personal Meeting with CSX CEO, Sounded Alarm on Dangerous Rockland Rail Crossing & Secured A Major Commitment to Finally Replace By The End Of 2023 West... Read More

Schumer Has Singlehandedly Increased Number Of Women On Northern District Bench, And Just In Time For Women’s History Month, Nardacci’s Swearing In Will Make NDNY A Majority Female Bench For The First Time In History Senator Personally Recommended Nardacci For Nomination To The Northern District Federal Bench – The 3rd Woman He Has Recommended To NDNY Schumer: Nardacci Will Bring Profound Expertise, Honor, & History To The Capital Region BenchIn the midst of Women’s History Month,... Read More

Amtrak Halted Services Along It’s Adirondack Line During The COVID-19 Pandemic – Senators Have Pushed For Months To Restore This Economic Engine Which Runs From NYC To The Capital Region And Up To The North Country To MontrealNow Amtrak Says It Has Heeded The Senators Calls And Will Resume Services Starting April 3rd  Schumer, Gillibrand: ALL ABOARD For The North Country Economy!After months of advocacy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today... Read More

Sullivan Continues To Have The Highest Overdose Death Rate In NYS, With 218 Overdose Incidents And 24 Fatalities In 2022 Alone, But Is Still The Hudson Valley’s ONLY County Not In The HIDTA ZoneLast Year, Schumer Personally Visited Monticello To Meet Drug Task Force & Called ONDCP Director Pushing For HIDTA Designation – Now He Is Doubling Down To Deliver Vital Fed Resources, Bringing NY HIDTA Boss To Meet With Sullivan County Drug Task Force Schumer To Feds: Give Sullivan County The... Read More

Xylazine, Known On The Street As ‘Tranq”, Has Been Linked To Dozens Of Overdoses Across CNY, And 40 Overdoses In Onondaga County Just Last Week – Including At Least Two Suspected Deaths Last Month – Causing Fear Among Law Enforcement & Local Addiction Service Professionals – As The Drug Is Narcan ResistantSchumer Wants Feds To Accelerate Import Crack Down And Better Track Down Dangerous Xylazine Plaguing CNY And Upstate NY – By Working With Local Law Enforcement And Boosting Federal Support... Read More

Schumer Has Delivered Millions For Chautauqua County; Pledges To Continue To Work With Local Leaders To Drive Further Federal Investment To Boost Chautauqua Economy Schumer: From Barcelona Harbor to Jamestown, I Will Always Fight For Chautauqua CountyU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer yesterday personally welcomed Chautauqua County leaders to Washington D.C. Schumer met with Chautauqua County Executive P.J. Wendel, Chautauqua County Legislature Chairman Pierre Chagnon, Mark... Read More

After Recent East Palestine Train Derailment, And Following Yet Another Derailment Saturday, Schumer Says Railroads Must Provide Answers NOW On What They Are Doing To Prevent An Accident Like That From Happening In Cities Like Buffalo, Rochester, Albany And In Communities Across Upstate NY Along Rail Lines   Schumer To Railroads: We Can’t Let Safety For Upstate NY Go Off The Rails – It Is Time To Fast Track Commonsense Rail-Safety Reform U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E.... Read More

After Recent East Palestine Train Derailment, And Following Yet Another Derailment Saturday, Schumer Says Railroads Must Provide Answers NOW On What They Are Doing To Prevent An Accident Like That From Happening In Syracuse Area — A Hub For Freight Rail Activity Schumer Has A Track Record For Making Local Rail Safer; He Curtailed Dangerous Crude Oil Carrying DOT-111 Train Cars That Frequented Syracuse, Pushed For Tougher Regs — That Rail Companies Undermined — & Now Rallies To Expand... Read More

After Recent East Palestine Train Derailment, And Following Yet Another Derailment Saturday, Schumer Says Railroads Must Provide Answers NOW On What They Are Doing To Prevent An Accident Like That From Happening In Upstate NY, Including Places Like The Southern Tier – A Hub For Rail ActivitySenator Demands Major Rail Companies Work With Local Leaders & First Responders, And Announces New Bipartisan Legislation To Increase Safety And Make Rail Carriers Pay For Their Wrongdoings Schumer:... Read More

Schumer-Created Programs— AFG & SAFER—Are Critical Funding Streams To Help Directly Staff And Equip Upstate NY Departments — Programs Have Already Delivered $682 Million But Now They’re At Risk Of Total EliminationSchumer Launches Push To Save Both Vital Firefighter Programs Set To Run Out In 2023 Schumer: It’s Time To Put On Our Boots, Throw Some Cold Water On These Cuts, & Rescue NY Fire Department Funding U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed the main federal... Read More

Auburn Community Hospital – The ONLY Hospital In Cayuga County – Heroically Provided Medical Staff To Help With Increased Patient Loads, Severity And Length Of Stay During COVID OutbreakSenators Say New FEMA Funding – At A 100% Federal Cost Share – Will Reimburse Hospital For Costs Related to Pandemic ResponseSchumer, Gillibrand: Federal $$$ Will Help Auburn Hospital Recover From Economic Impacts Of COVID-19 Pandemic And Keep Up Lifesaving CareU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and... Read More

Schumer Fought Non-Stop To Deliver Major Federal Investment For Binghamton University’s New Energy NY Project To Transform The Southern Tier Economy Into A Cutting-Edge Battery Research And Manufacturing HubEndicott’s iM3NY Is At The Forefront Of Lithium Battery Technology And Poised To Benefit BIG From Billions In The Just-Passed Inflation Reduction Act & Bipartisan Infrastructure LawSenator Wants Feds To Double Down On The Southern Tier’s Emerging Battery Cluster And Supercharge iM3NY’s... Read More