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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
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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
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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
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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$100K; A Reduction Of 92% In Non-Pay Budget Compared To Previous Years, Resulting In Emergency Equipment Becoming Outdated And Failing Inspection...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
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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
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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
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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
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Schumer Delivered New Funding In End-Of-Year Spending Package; Follows Nearly $6 Million Senator Secured Last Year To Jumpstart Oswego Harbor Repairs Schumer: Full Steam Ahead For Major Upgrades To Oswego Harbor After years of advocacy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today announced he has secured $17.971 million in federal funding for critical repairs to Oswego Harbor as a part of the recently passed, bipartisan omnibus spending package for Fiscal Year 2023. Specifically,... Read More
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Schumer Delivers Final Piece Of Puzzle To Expand Critical Healthcare Services In Capital Region For A New State-Of-The-Art Regional Health System For The Disabled – Partnering The Center for Disability Services And Albany Medical CenterSchumer: Major New Fed Funding Is The Shot In The Arm Needed To Boost The Healthcare Sector And Future Of The Capital RegionU.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed that he has secured nearly $22 million in federal funding for long desired... Read More
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Schumer Details Over $12 Million He Just Secured To Train Next Gen Of Healthcare Workers At OCC; Funding Will Help Address Local Medical Staff Shortages And Expand Lifesaving Healthcare Services In Syracuse Senator Highlights Key Boosts He Secured In The Just Passed End-Of-Year Spending Bill To Increase Residency Slots, Boost Mental Health Programs, And More Schumer: Fed $$$ On The Way To CNY Will Give Local Health Systems The Shot In The Arm They Need To Expand Healthcare Services, Train... Read More
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Lake Ontario Floods Cost Millions In Damage To Homes, Businesses, & Beaches, With Floods Severely Exacerbated By Deteriorating Condition Of The East Breakwall In Sodus Bay; But Now Schumer Has Finally Delivered Long-Awaited Fed Funding To Kick Start Overdue Upgrades Senator Say $20 Million Project Will Make Critical Repairs To The Great Sodus Bay East Breakwall – Protecting Homes, Businesses, And Tourism Industry And Preventing Future Devastating Floods Schumer: After Years... Read More
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Standing At The Canandaigua VA That Was Originally Targeted For Closure In 2003, Senators Deliver Major New Fed $$$ To Transform Aging Buildings Into The State-Of-The-Art Care Facility Finger Lakes Veterans Deserve – Culminating Nearly Two Decades Of Advocacy Schumer, Gillibrand Backed Community Projects Will Breathe New Life Into Finger Lakes Aging Infrastructure, Expand Youth Programs In Rochester, Train Workers For High Paying Semiconductor Jobs, And More Senators: Major New Fed Funding... Read More
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Great Lakes Basin Is Home To 30+ Million People, Including 8% Of All Americans, Not Only Serving As One Of The Largest Sources Of Freshwater, But Also Upstate New York Industrial And Manufacturing Hubs In Western New York, The Rochester-Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, and North Country Regions New Great Lakes Authority Will Function Similarly to the Federal Appalachian Regional Commission and Northern Border Regional Commission Which Have Pumped Tens of Millions In Federal Funding Into Upstate New... Read More
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December 28, 2022
SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCE $1,000,000 FOR AKWESASNE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TO SUPPORT MOHAWK YOUTH
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are announcing that they secured $1,000,000 for the Boys & Girls Club in Akwesasne for children of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe in the FY2023 spending bill. The Boys & Girls Club of America provides safe community gathering centers nationwide and empowers young students with educational programs designed to help them succeed in school. The federal dollars Gillibrand and Schumer fought for will help construct a new... Read More -
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today revealed that they secured $7,030,000 for Clarkson University in the end-of-year spending package. More than $6 million of this significant federal investment will help the Potsdam campus expand programs and educational opportunities to train the next generation of health care professionals. Additionally, the senators secured nearly $900,000 for Clarkson University’s Green Energy on Demand rapid... Read More
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Senators Say Emergency Declaration Would Unlock Federal Funds for Impacted Counties Still Recovering From Double Blow Of Back To Back Winter Storms After The Record Breaking “Snowvember” Storm Deadly Blizzard Buried Buffalo And Upstate Communities In Nearly 4 Feet Of Snow, With More Still Coming, And Brutal Mix Of Frigid Temperatures And High Winds – Creating Impossible Road Conditions And Tragically Resulting In Over 20 New Yorkers Losing Their Lives Schumer, Gillibrand: Feds... Read More
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Senators Say Disaster Declaration Would Unlock Federal Funds for Impacted Counties Still Recovering From Double Blow Of Back To Back Winter Storms After The Record Breaking Snowvember Storm Current Forecasts Predict Brutal Mix Of Frigid Temperatures, Snow, Rain, And High Winds – Creating Dangerous Conditions, With Meteorologists Already Referring The Event As Potentially A “Once-In-A-Generation Storm.” Schumer & Gillibrand To FEMA: Stand Ready To Approve Any Requested Aid... Read More
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Schumer Led PACT Act To Passage After Years Of Fighting Alongside NY Vets To Extend VA Care; Veterans Have Struggled To Receive Coverage & Had Claims Repeatedly Denied For Long-Term Health Effects—From Cancers To Respiratory Illnesses—Caused By Toxins In Burn Pit Smoke; Funding Also Helps Vietnam Vets Exposed to Agent Orange Critical Funding For “Honoring Our PACT Act” Will Ensure Vets Exposed To Environmental Hazards Get The Health Care Benefits They Desperately... Read More
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December 23, 2022
SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCE $4.4 MILLION IN BIPARTISAN SPENDING PACKAGE FOR NEW GREENWICH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand revealed that the Village of Greenwich will receive $4.4 million in funding from the omnibus funding package for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The funding will be used to build a new wastewater treatment plant for the Village of Greenwich. The omnibus is expected to pass Congress and be signed into law this week. The Village of Greenwich’s wastewater treatment plant is at the end of its useful life and is in an... Read More -
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are announcing that several of their priorities for Syracuse, including $2,500,000 in federal funding for security enhancements at Syracuse Hancock International Airport, were successfully passed in the final omnibus funding package for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. Together, the senators secured $10.76 million for projects that will directly impact the Syracuse community. Notably, the senators secured $1.1 million to... Read More