Press Releases
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Fema Has Heeded Their Call, Approved Major Disaster Declaration For New York State To Aid Seven Rochester-Finger Lakes, Southern Tier Counties Impacted By Severe Flooding This August
Schumer & Gillibrand Announce That Major Disaster Declaration Assistance For Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Schuyler, Seneca And Tioga Counties Has Been Approved By FEMA, Unlocking Key Federal Funds For Communities Impacted By Flooding This August; Senators: Funds Will Allow Finger Lakes, Southern Tier Communities To Recover And Rebuild From Flooding Damages
Senators Schumer And Gillibrand Announce That Just-Passed Health And Human Services Spending Bill Includes $3.7 Billion For The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program To Help Seniors And Families Pay Their Energy Bills
New York State is the Largest Beneficiary of LIHEAP Funding, Which Helps Low Income Seniors and Families Stay Warm in the Winters and Cool in the Summers; Appropriations Bill Provides $3.7 Billion for LIHEAP – A $50 Million Increase in Funding from Last Year
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $1.5 Million In Federal Funding For The Unity House Of Troy To Combat Domestic Violence And Sexual Assault Against Women
Washington, DC – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $1,540,243 in federal funding for the Unity House of Troy. Funding was provided through two different grants from the U.S. Department of...
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $89 Million In Federal Funding For YouthBuild Programs In Just-Passed Education Appropriations Bill
Gillibrand Led Bipartisan Push for YouthBuild Funding to Help At-Risk Youth Develop Skills and Knowledge to Get Jobs
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Major Week Of Progress In New York’s Ongoing Battle With The Opioid Epidemic, Including Passage Of Over $3 Billion In Health And Human Services Funding, Over $56 Million Sent To New York By Fed Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration, And A Bipartisan, Bicameral Agreement On A Package Of New Opioid Policy Changes And Program Authorizations
The Senate FY2019 Health And Human Services Appropriations Bill Includes $3.7 Billion In HHS Funding To Stem The Scourge Of Opioids, A $2.7 Billion Increase Over FY2017; Additionally, SAMHSA Is Releasing $56.45 Million To Programs And Organizations Across New York State; The Bipartisan, Bicameral SUPPORT For Patients And Communities Act Is A Sweeping Package Of Legislation That Makes Critical Changes To Domestic Policy And Establishes New Initiatives To Support First Responders, Law Enforcement,
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $8 Million In Funding For Cornell Chess Lab As Part Of Recently-Passed Defense Appropriations Bill; Funding Will Maintain Lab’s Partnership With The U.S. Air Force To Develop High-Performance Materials For Aircraft
The Nobel Prize-Winning Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) Is One Of Two High Energy Synchrotron X-Ray Sources In The United States; The Lab Has Generated Groundbreaking Scientific Innovation In Numerous Scientific Fields; For Over 10 Years, The U.S. Air Force Has Studied High Performance Materials At CHESS, Which Helps To Lower The Cost Of Manufacturing And Maintenance Of Military Aircraft; Keep U.S. Aircraft At The Pinnacle Of Excellence
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $150,000 In Federal Funding For Town Of North Hempstead For An Environmental Study To Clean Up And Revitalize New Cassel Brownfield Properties
Funding Will be Used for an Environmental Study of Brownfield Properties in New Cassel, Will Help Develop a Plan for Cleanup and Encourage Redevelopment of Polluted Sites
With Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Scheduled To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee Tomorrow That She Was Sexually Assaulted By Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Gillibrand Takes To Senate Floor And Urges Colleagues To Listen To The Credible Allegations Of Sexual Assault Against Kavanaugh
Gillibrand Urges Colleagues to Take Claims of Sexual Assault by Kavanaugh Seriously When Deciding Whether He Deserves a Lifetime Appointment to the Supreme Court; Gillibrand: If We Allow Women’s Experiences of Sexual Trauma to be Second to a Man’s Promotion, It Will Not Only Diminish This Watershed Moment of Societal Change We Are In, It Will Bring Shame on This Body and on the Court
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $2 Million In Federal Funding To Help Build A New, State-Of-The-Art Electric Charging Building For Rochester Buses
The “Advanced Environmental Service Building” Will Support Electric Charging of New Electric Buses and Will Clean Buses with Reclaimed Water; Funding Will Be Provided to the Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Recently Senate-Passed Defense Appropriations Bill Includes: $179 Million To Remediate, Investigate, And Prevent Further Damages From Potential PFOA/PFOS Contamination At Federal Military Bases And $10 Million For CDC Health Impact Study On PFOA/PFOS
On The Heels Of The Passage Of Their Amendment Authorizing $20 Million To Reimburse States And Local Water Authorities For PFOA/PFOS Cleanup At National Guard Air Bases, Schumer And Gillibrand Successfully Pushed To Include $179 Million To Address And Prevent Potential PFOA/PFOS Contamination On And Near Federal Military Bases And $10 Million For A CDC Public Health Study; Funding Will Be Used To Clean Up PFOA/PFOS, Prevent Potential Future Contamination In Communities Surrounding Federal Milita