Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On July 29, 2019, Senator Schumer attended the groundbreaking celebration for Canopy Growth’s $150 million industrial hemp park in Kirkwood, NY. The new facility is expected to bring at least 400 good-paying jobs to the Southern Tier and position Broome County at the forefront of the rapidly emerging hemp industry. Senator Schumer has been a leader at the federal level in creating a permissible pathway for the commercial cultivation of industrial hemp as an agricultural commodity, paving the way for major economic development projects like this hemp industrial park to take root while also working closely with agricultural and industry stakeholders to pass his bipartisan legislation the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, which was included in the bipartisan 2018 Farm Bill.