Schumer, Gillibrand, Jeffries Announce Over $16m In Federal Sandy Funding For Permanent Repairs To Coney Island’s Edna Cohen School

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries today announced $16.2 million in federal funding to the New York City School Construction Authority for permanent work of P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School of Coney Island, as a result of Superstorm Sandy. Flooding from storm surge caused severe damage to the public school. Federal funding is being obligated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Public Assistance program. "There is no better … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $800,000 In Federal Funding For Water And Infrastructure Upgrades In The Town Of Richmond

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced a grant of $368,000 and a loan of $455,000 for the Town of Richmond in Ontario County. The federal funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Water and Waste Disposal Loan and Grant program and will be used to install a new water main, valves, fire hydrants and other items needed to support the construction of a clean water supply and fire-protection … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Town Of New Castle To Receive More Than $8.6 Million In FEMA Funds To Replace, Upgrade Flood-Prone Bridge Over The Kisco River Damaged By Superstorm Sandy

Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced $8,680,000 in federal funding for the Town of New Castle in Westchester County to replace the flood-prone bridge over the Kisco River on the Saw Mill River Parkway that was impacted by flooding resulting from Superstorm Sandy. These funds, which are being awarded as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) will cover 100 percent of the cost for the project. This … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $900k Head Start Grant For Community Action Of Orleans & Genesee

Today, U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $911,225 in federal funding for Community Action of Orleans and Genesee, Inc., a community-based agency. Schumer and Gillibrand said this funding will help support the organization's efforts to improve education for low-income children at their earliest age, when major learning strides take place. Funding for Community Action of Orleans and Genesee, Inc. will support a new Early Head Start - Child Care Partnership … Continue Reading

As An Est. 3 Million New Yorkers Contract Foodborne Illness Each Year, Senator Gillibrand Announces New Push To Improve Food Safety Standards

Washington, DC - As an estimated 3 million New Yorkers get sick from the food they eat each year U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a new push today to prevent foodborne illness and improve food safety standards. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that each year approximately 1 in 6 Americans get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. According the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, nearly a quarter of all cut-up chicken parts are contaminated … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $1.2 Million Head Start Grant For Schenectady County

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced a $1,246,700 federal grant for Schenectady Community Action Program (SCAP), a community based agency. Funding for SCAP will support a new Early Head Start - Child Care Partnership program and expand SCAP's ability to provide education and development services for low-income children. "Study after study shows that the better we prepare our young children via Head Start, the better they perform in school … Continue Reading

Gillibrand Applauds Passage Of The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention For American Veterans Act

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand applauded the passage of The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans (SAV) Act. Gillibrand is an original cosponsor of the bill (S. 167/H.R. 203) which passed unanimously in the Senate today after passing in the House of Representatives earlier this month, and now heads to the President's desk. The bill aims to help reduce military and veteran suicides by improving mental health care and enhancing suicide prevention resources. "The … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Nearly $7 Million Head Start Grant For Monroe County

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced a $6,942,997 federal grant for Action For a Better Community (ABC), a Rochester community-based early-education agency. Funding for ABC will support the Early Learning and Head Start programs that provide education and development services for low-income children. "Study after study shows that the better we prepare our young children via Head Start, the better they perform in school later in life," said … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $740,000 In USDA Funding To Support Beginning Farmers Program At Stone Barns In Westchester

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $744,951 in federal funding for Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, in Westchester. The grant was awarded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and will be used to continue to provide education and training programs for new farmers and ranchers. The program provides technical training, business skills, online connectivity training as … Continue Reading

Gillibrand, Mccaskill Praise Proposed New Resources To Combat Campus Sexual Assault

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill today praised the more than $30 million in new resources included in the President's budget, to help fund an additional 200 full-time staff at the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which investigates and enforces sexual assault laws at colleges and universities. "There's a lot of work Congress must do to address and prevent campus sexual assault, and that includes enforcing the laws we already have on the … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $1.4 Million In Federal Funds To Two Ithaca Institutions To Train Returning Vets To Be Farmers & Ranchers

Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide $1,420,227 in federal funds to help two New York State organizations train beginning farmers and ranchers, including returning veterans looking to start farm-related careers. These federal funds will be allocated through the USDA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP). Cornell University in Ithaca will receive $712,500 in federal funds to … Continue Reading

Gillibrand: President’s Budget Important First Step For Middle Class Families & Important Investment To Fight Campus Sexual Assault

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement on the President's budget, announced today: "The President's budget is not just a starting point for discussions with Congress, it is fundamentally a statement of values. With his proposal, the President rightly makes the growth of the middle class a priority and focuses on addressing the challenges working families across the country face. On issues like paid family leave, affordable child care and early … Continue Reading

Gillibrand Urges Congress To Fully Fund Department Of Homeland Security

Washington, D.C. - As Congress prepares for a debate on the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today urged her colleagues in Congress to fully fund the Department to ensure that it can continue to fulfill its duty to protect Americans. "A fully-funded Department of Homeland Security is vitally important to ensuring the safety of Americans in New York and across the country," said Senator Gillibrand. "I urge my colleagues to leave partisan politics … Continue Reading

Senators Urge Administration To Counter Palestinian Authority’s Efforts To Join International Criminal Court

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today led a group of 75 senators in urging the Obama Administration to counter efforts by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to seek membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, the senators highlighted their concerns regarding President Abbas' recent efforts to use the ICC as a means to threaten Israel, and sought the administration's assistance on several … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Rochester-SUNY Proposal Will Advance To Final Round Of Competition For $110 Million To Create New National Institute Of Photonics – Senators Have Supported Effort & Say Rochester Is Well-Positioned To Win, As Home Of World’s Greatest Concentration Of Expertise In Optics, Photonics, Imaging

Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has selected the joint proposal led by the University of Rochester (UR) and the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) to advance to the final application round of the administration's new Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (IP-IMI) program. Schumer and Gillibrand explained that, in October 2014, the Obama Administration launched a new … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $1m In Federal Hazard Mitigation Funding For Staten Island University Hospital; Grant Will Help Fund Phase 1 In Project That Will Elevate Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing Systems At Hospital’s Central Utility Plant

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1,089,855 in federal funding for Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH). The funding is being provided through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) hazard mitigation grant program. The grant will help fund the elevation of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems for the Staten Island University Hospital North Campus' Central Utility Plant. Overall, SIUH applied for $23 million in hazard mitigation … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $191 Million In Fed Funds For 680 New York State Organizations Working To End Homelessness

Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced $191,794,858 in federal funding has been awarded to 680 different organizations in New York State working to end homelessness. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) Program. The CoC Program provides funding to non-profits, as well as local and state governments, to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families and promote access to … Continue Reading

Gillibrand Introduces Loretta Lynch During Senate Judiciary Committee Attorney General Confirmation Hearing

Watch Senator Gillibrand Introduce Loretta Lynch Before the Committee Here Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced Loretta Lynch during the Senate Judiciary Committee U.S. Attorney General confirmation hearing. Below are the Senator's remarks as prepared for delivery: "Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking Member Leahy. I am honored to be here today with Senator Schumer to introduce United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Loretta Lynch, as … Continue Reading

Gillibrand Statement Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau: "On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we remember the more than one million innocent Europeans, mostly Jewish, who perished at that camp because they had the wrong name, the wrong face, or the wrong God. "We must use this anniversary today to warn against a new wave of anti-Semitism - a movement that … Continue Reading

Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $4 Million In Fed Funding For Westchester County For Hurricane Sandy Repairs At Glen Island Park

Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that Westchester County will receive $4,032,891.38 in federal funds to make permanent repairs to Glen Island Park in New Rochelle, which was damaged during Hurricane Sandy. Sections of the bath house were completely demolished and half the sand on the beach was swept away during Sandy. Many trees were also downed during the storm. The funding is being allocated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) … Continue Reading