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Last Year, Schumer Secured Nearly $1 Million for St. John’s Riverside Hospital Maternity Unit Upgrades – For Critical New Equipment & New Programs Focused On Black Maternal Health U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced that he will bring Yonkers’s Cheryl Brannan, founder of Sister to Sister International and a maternal health advocate, as his guest to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address. Schumer worked hand-in-hand with Cheryl last year to deliver critical... Read More

Schumer Fought Non-Stop For Over A Year, Calling Commerce Secretary Multiple Times For Binghamton University’s New Energy NY Proposal To Transform The Southern Tier Economy With Federally-Backed, Cutting-Edge Battery Research And ManufacturingSchumer Worked Hand In Hand With Dr. Whittingham Standing Together At Multiple Events, And Penning An Op-Ed Together On The Importance Of Bringing Battery Manufacturing Back From Overseas To Places Like Upstate NYSchumer: Upstate NY Is Ready To Power... Read More

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced that he will bring Zeneta Everhart, as his guest to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address. Zeneta Everhart, the mother of Zaire Goodman, who was wounded but survived the horrific racially motivated mass shooting at the Tops supermarket in East Buffalo, gave an extremely powerful testimony before Congress and along with the other families helped break gridlock to pass the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first... Read More

Schumer’s CHIPS And Science Bill Will Create A First-Of-Its-Kind National Semiconductor Technology Center To Maintain U.S. Leadership In Innovation For The Future Of Chip ManufacturingSchumer Has Already Brought Top Commerce Dept Leadership To See Firsthand All That The Albany Nanotech Complex Has To Offer As A Premier Semiconductor R&D Center – This Year Senator Will Be Fighting Nonstop To Bring NSTC Hub To Albany And Thousands of New Cap Region Jobs That Would Come From Fed... Read More

Vital Federal Medicare Reimbursement Programs Was Set To Expire This Past December Putting Rural Upstate NY Hospitals At Risk Of Major Funding Cliff  Schumer Secured Key Extension For Programs For Hospitals In Southern Tier, North Country, Finger Lakes And Beyond To Continue To Receive Millions In Funding To Maintain Care In Underserved Areas Schumer: Lifeline Fed Reimbursement Program Just What The Doctor Ordered For Upstate NY Rural Hospitals & Families  After launching an... Read More

Schumer Worked Nonstop For Months Helping Connect Baxter With Chip Supplier Texas Instruments, And Even Personally Calling TI To Ensure Orders Continued To Be Fulfilled So Orleans Workers Would Be Able To Continue Their Essential Work – Now Baxter Has Been Able To Secure The Necessary Chips To Complete Work And Says This Issue Has Been Resolved  Schumer’s Bipartisan CHIPS & Science Bill Signed – Already Spurring Major Investment In Upstate NY Like Edwards Vacuum To Genesee County – Will... Read More

Schumer, Gillibrand: New Fed Investment Will Lay The Foundation For Future In Southern TierU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $8.5 million for essential infrastructure and long-desired community development projects across the Southern Tier. This federal funding was secured by the senators as congressionally directed spending in the end-of-year budget for Fiscal Year 2023. Schumer and Gillibrand said the projects include vital... Read More

Schumer Says Risking Debt Ceiling Default Is Needlessly Playing With Fire – And Local Economies’ & That People’s Wallets, Especially In Upstate NY, Would Take The Hit Schumer Says Public Needs To Put Pressure On House To Break Free Of Extreme Wings Of The GOP Party & Prevent Catastrophic Spike In Rising Costs — As Millions In Earned Benefits Like SS & Medicare Could Be Disrupted For Communities From Buffalo To Albany And Plattsburgh... Read More

West Point Fire Department Had Its Operating Budget Cut By A Staggering 92%, Leaving Equipment Outdated And Even Failing Inspection Despite Responding To 800 Calls Last Year– Schumer Immediately Sounded The Alarm, Standing With Firefighters Calling On Army Top Brass To Fix Years Of Problems ASAP Just Days After His Push – Army HQ Heeded Schumer’s Call By Sending Top Brass To Meet With West Point Firefighters, Pledging To Provide $1.8 Million – 150% Of Their Original Request – To Rectify... Read More

Schumer Lead The Charge To Protect & Keep Rochester GM Plant Open When It Was On The Verge Of Closure After 2008 Auto Industry Crash And Fought Non-Stop Personally Calling On GM To Bring New Work To UAW Workers Of The Finger Lakes  Now Electric Battery Components Built At GM Rochester Plant Will Help Power Future EV Production And Lead GM’s Transformation To All-Electric Cars Schumer: New GM Investment Will Put Rochester Plant in ‘Driver’s Seat’, To Power America’s Electric Vehicle... Read More

1920s Construction Of The Saw Mill River Parkway & Subsequent Closure Of The Old Putnam Railroad And Its Four Stations Segregated Southwest Yonkers And Ripped Jobs, Services AwayStanding With Community Leaders & Supporters, Schumer Announces Major Push To Reconnect Southwest Yonkers To The Rest Of Westchester & NYC Through New Greenway To Transform Abandoned Spur, Restore Polluted Properties, Revitalize South Broadway & Promote Equity In Southwest Yonkers Historically Redlined... Read More

With Indian Point's 2021 Shutdown, Westchester Suddenly Lost Over $1 Billion Of Economic Output, $32 Million Of Tax Revenue, And 1,000+ Jobs, Creating A Major Economic Hit After 50 Years Of Plant Operations Schumer-Championed NCC Program Aimed At Rebuilding Indian Point & Other Closure Communities Was Almost Significantly Cut Last Year – But Schumer Successfully Saved It; Delivering A New Cash Infusion Of $16.5M... Read More

NEH Grants Support Research And Learning In History, Literature, Philosophy & Other Areas Of The Humanities Upstate New York Awarded Over 7% Of Total Funding For Humanities Projects Across The CountrySenators: Investment In Humanities, Cultural Organizations, And Non-Profits Paints Bright Picture For New York’s FutureU.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1,977,376 million in grants distributed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),... Read More

Hazardous Abandoned “Buisch” & “George’s” Gas Stations Have Plagued Community For Years But Industrial Pollution From Past Use Has Stifled Businesses That Want To Redevelop These Sites & Grow In Seneca County And The Finger Lakes Senator Launches Push for Vital EPA Grant to Kickstart Initiative, To Clean Up Hazardous Blights Offering New Opportunity To Redevelop Dozens Of Finger Lakes Sites To Help Lure In New Businesses And Take Burden Off Local Taxpayer For Polluted Properties... Read More

Schumer-Created Fed Incentives Have Spurred Thousands Of Good-Paying Tech And Manufacturing Jobs In Upstate NY – With Companies Like Micron, Wolfspeed, and GlobalFoundries Making Big Investments; Now He Says We Need To Get Mohawk Valley Workers Ready To Fill These Jobs Senator Also Highlights Major Fed $$$ To Bolster Rome Lab And Rapidly Growing Mohawk Valley High-Tech Sector Schumer: Future Of Technology Will Be Made By Utica-Area Workers With Skills Gained From MVCC! With his CHIPS &... Read More

Senator Says Plug Is a Great New York Success Story & New Factory Opening With Over A Thousand New Jobs Is The Culmination Of Years Of Work To Deliver Fed Support To Help Plug Grow In The Cap Region  Factory Opening Would Not Be Possible Without Investment Tax Credit Schumer Delivered in 2017 – And Schumer Says New Incentives In The Inflation Reduction Act And Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Will Supercharge Plug’s Future Growth Schumer: Plug is POWERING UP Capital Region With 1,600 New... Read More

The West Point Fire Department Uniquely Depends On Fed Funding Through Army HQ, Since They Are Fed Employees Serving USMA & Surrounding Communities – Meaning Recent Shortfalls In Army Budget Have Resulted In Major Hits To Operations In 2021, West Point Requested $1.76 Million To Help Its Fire And Emergency Services – But Barely Received $100K; A Reduction Of 92% In Non-Pay Budget Compared To Previous Years, Resulting In Emergency Equipment Becoming Outdated And Failing Inspection... Read More

Schumer-Negotiated Infrastructure Law Included Billions To Bring Fast & Affordable High-Speed Internet To Underserved Communities In Rural & Urban Parts Across Upstate NY – And Deadline For The Maps Which Determine That Funding Is This Week- January 13th Schumer: Over 1,500+ Tompkins County Households Lack Sufficient Broadband Access And More Than 25,000 Across The Southern Tier; Everyone Must Be Accurately Represented In Fed Maps So NY Gets Its Fair Share Of The Funding... Read More

Historic Crawford Furniture Factory, A Site With Known Hazardous Contamination, Went Up In Flames Late Last Year, Posing A Potential Public Health Threat – But Cleanup Could Cost Millions, Creating A Serious Financial Challenge For Jamestown Senator Wants  To Bolster Feds’ Presence At The Site And Work Towards a Superfund Cleanup Action, Which Schumer Just Got Massive Funding For– Doing So Would Help Swiftly Remove Toxic Debris Without Burden Falling On Local... Read More

On The Heels of Expanding The National Science Foundation In The CHIPS & Science Bill And Delivering The Largest $$$ Increase For The Agency Ever, UB Receives First NSF AI Institute Award of 2023 And The First For New York State Reps Says New NSF- And Department Of Education-Backed AI Institute At UB Will Help Develop Cutting-Edge Education Technology To Help Children With Speech And Language Disorders Communicate  Schumer, Gillibrand, Higgins: Buffalo Will Help Lead America In AI... Read More