Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On August 8, 2018 Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer stood at the Finger Lakes Area Counseling & Recovery Agency (FLACRA), in Penn Yan, New York, to launch his efforts to lock down $3.3 billion in federal funding in the upcoming Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations bill to combat the ongoing opioid crisis. Schumer explained that Yates County has been hit particularly hard by the opioid epidemic, and that Yates is the second most severely-impacted county per capita in the Rochester-Finger Lakes Region.