Press Releases
Schumer, Gillibrand And Brindisi Urge Fema To Approve Much-Needed $3.9 Million Grant To Help Alleviate Severe & Repetitive Flooding Along Sauquoit Creek; Say Fed Funding Would Advance Critical Phases Of Current Mitigation Projects Intended To Protect Residents & Businesses From Further Destruction
Over The Last Decade, Oneida County Has Been Battered By Repetitive Floods From Sauquoit Creek, Causing Millions Of Dollars Of Damage To Public And Private Infrastructure, Displacing Families From Their Homes And Increasing The Burden On Emergency Responders; Schumer, Gillibrand And Brindisi Today Call On FEMA To Expeditiously Approve Whitestown’s Application For Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Funding To Expand Scope Of The Sauquoit Creek Channel And Floodplain Project, Which Would Construct Ne
Gillibrand Announces That Her Legislation To Begin Process Of Designating The Finger Lakes Region As A National Heritage Area Clears Senate In Just-Passed Lands Package
Gillibrand’s Legislation Authorizes National Park Service to Take First Step Toward Designating the Finger Lakes Region as a National Heritage Area and Conduct Study Across 14 Counties
Gillibrand Announces That Her Legislation To Expand The FDR National Historic Site Clears Senate In Just-Passed Lands Package
Gillibrand’s Legislation Authorizes National Park Service to Acquire 89 Acres of Land Adjacent to the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park
As Momentum Continues To Grow For Congress To Take Action On Paid Family Leave, Gillibrand, DeLauro Stand With Workers, Business Leaders And Advocates To Reintroduce The Family Act To Give Every American Worker Access To Paid Family And Medical Leave
The FAMILY Act Would Create a Universal, Gender-Neutral Paid Family and Medical Leave Plan that Would Cover All Workers for Any Medical Event; With Only 17 Percent of the American Workforce Currently Having Access to Paid Family Leave Through Their Employer, Workers are Losing Income, Jobs and Businesses are Losing Employees Every Day that Goes By Without a National Paid Family Leave Program
Schumer, Gillibrand, Rice Announce Nearly $13 Million In Federal Funds For Hardening Of Sandy-Damaged Infrastructure For Lawrence Union Free School District On Long Island, NY
Funding Will Be Used to Repair the Damaged Pipes of the Lawrence High School Building
Gillibrand Joins Senator Markey, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez And Other Members Of The House And Senate To Introduce Historic Resolution To Set Framework For A Green New Deal For America; Landmark Legislation Comes After Gillibrand’s Public Call Last Month Urging Her Senate Colleagues To Solve The Climate Change Crisis, Eliminate Carbon Emissions, Modernize Our Economy And Create Good, New Jobs For American Workers Throughout New York And All Across The Country
Gillibrand, a Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was One of the First Senators to Publicly Call for a Green New Deal and Put Pen to Paper with Substantive Ideas about How to Implement This Urgently Needed Plan; Last Month, Gillibrand First Laid Out her Vision for a Green New Deal in a Public Letter to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Urging Him to Prioritize Climate Change, Green Jobs, and a Sustainable Economy – Key Components of the Green New Dea
Gillibrand, Collins, Reed Introduce New Bipartisan Legislation To Protect Transgender Service Members
New Bipartisan Push Comes After Supreme Court Decision That Will Allow President Trump’s Transgender Military Service Ban to Go Into Effect; Legislation Would Protect All Current and Future Transgender Troops; Prevent DoD from Kicking Out Members of the Military Because of Gender Identity; All Military Service Chiefs Testified Transgender Troops Have Not Harmed Unit Cohesion, Discipline, or Morale
Gillibrand Statement On President Trump’s State Of The Union Address
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s State of the Union address: “President Trump has had years to bring this country together, but instead he has chosen...
As EPA Prepares To Release Second 5-Year Review Of Hudson River PCB Superfund Site To Determine Whether Cleanup Is Protective Of Human Health, Schumer, Gillibrand Call On EPA To Deny A Certificate Of Completion To GE
Schumer, Gillibrand: Certificate of Completion Could Harm the Health of the Hudson River and New Yorkers; EPA Must Work with GE & New York State to Continue PCB Cleanup; EPA Is Expected to Soon Issue Second 5-Year Review Report On Hudson River PCB Cleanup and Determine Whether the Dredging Remedy Carried Out by GE Is Protective of Human Health and the Environment; Last December, NYS DEC Report Found that PCB Contamination Has Not Consistently Improved, Despite GE Assurances that PCB Cleanup is C
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $11 Million In Federal Funds For 24 Western New York Organizations Working To End Homelessness
Funding Will Be Used To Help Non-Profits, Local Governments Assist Homeless Individuals & Families, Promote Self-Sufficiency Programs