Press Releases
As Seniors Across New York Continue To Face Soaring Prescription Drug Prices, Gillibrand Visits Niagara Falls To Announce Legislation To Drive Down Costs And Increase Access To Safe, Affordable Medications
New Trump Administration Plan Falsely Claims to Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs for Seniors, But Costs Would Simply Be Redistributed and Potentially Go Up for Seniors Under the Inadequate Trump Plan; Last Year, Nearly 28 Million Americans Experienced a Spike in Prescription Medication Prices and Many Seniors Were Forced to Go Without Their Prescription Drugs in the Face of Rising Costs
Schumer, Gillibrand: Senate Defense Bill Does Not Include House Of Representative Provision That Would Cut Funding & Jeopardize Jobs At DFAS Rome
The House Of Representatives Version Of The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Calls For A 25% Cut To Agencies That Employ Civilian Workers, Such As DFAS, Putting Rome Jobs At Serious Risk; Senators Made Sure This Provision Was Not Included in Senate NDAA And Vow To Fight Any Future Threat During Conference Negotiations; Schumer, Gillibrand: Any Provision To Hurt Rome DFAS Is DOA In The Senate
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $7.3 Million In Department Of Transportation Funding For Vital Improvements At Hudson Valley Regional Airport In Dutchess County
Department Of Transportation Funding Will Be Used For A New Building And Infrastructure Upgrades
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $7.5 Million In Department Of Transportation Funding For Vital Runway Improvements At Griffiss International Airport In Oneida County
Department of Transportation Funding Will Be Used For New Renovations & Infrastructure Upgrades
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $14 Million In Federal Funding For RIT-LED Remade Manufacturing Lab Included In Senate Energy And Water Appropriations Bill
Schumer & Gillibrand Continue Effort to Secure Funding for RIT-Led REMADE Manufacturing Institute and Support High-Tech Energy Jobs in Rochester; Rochester’s REMADE Manufacturing Institute Is One of Four National Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institutes Working to Reduce Energy and Carbon Emissions in U.S. Manufacturing Industry
Schumer, Gillibrand Reveal: New Trade Agreement Between European Union And Mexico Could Ban New York Cheese Makers From Selling Cheese Labeled Muenster, Feta, Parmesan, & Others In Mexico; Senator Urges U.S. Trade Rep To Intervene ASAP To Ensure Mexico Honors Existing Trade Commitments Before NY Dairy Producers Are Harmed
Through A Recent Trade Agreement Between The EU And Mexico, The EU Is Proposing That Mexico Block US Cheese Producers From Exporting Cheese With Common Cheese Names Or Geographic Indicators; Schumer & Gillibrand Join Colleagues To Urge U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer To Defend NY Cheese Producers In Trade Negotiations; EU Is Staking A Regional Claim On Common Cheese Names Like “Asiago,” “Parmesan” And “Feta”; Senators: Don’t Let Unfair Trade Deals Cut Into The Future Of New York’s Cheese In
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $80 Million In Funding For Rochester Laser Lab Included In Senate Energy And Water Appropriations Bill
Schumer & Gillibrand’s Multi-Year Effort to Secure Funding Continues, New Funding Would Keep 360 Workers on the Job at UR Lab to Continue Vital National Nuclear Security and Energy Innovation Work; Senate Funding Level Rejects Trump’s Budget Proposal to Phase Out Funding to the Laser Lab; Schumer, Gillibrand: Funding Will Help Keep Rochester’s Laser Lab at the Cusp of Technological Innovation, Supporting Good-Paying Local Jobs and Launching New High-Tech Companies
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $67 Million In Federal Funding For Public Housing Development And Improvement Projects Throughout Upstate New York
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced $67,074,447 million in federal funding for public housing agencies throughout Upstate New York. The funding was provided by the U.S....
Gillibrand, Schumer Announce Authority To More Aggressively Clean Up PFOA/PFOS At Stewart, Gabreski Air National Guard Bases – And To Compensate Local Gov/Water Districts – Included In National Defense Bill That Just Passed Out Of Committee
With the City of Newburgh and Suffolk County and NY Still Fighting to Clean Up Toxic Chemical Pollution and to Get Compensated for Response Costs and Clean Drinking Water, Gillibrand, Schumer Secure Provision In Must-Pass National Defense Bill to Remove PFOA/PFOS from New York’s Contaminated Guard Bases
Gillibrand, Murray, Feinstein, Warren Call On Government Accountability Office To Investigate The Economic Effect Of Sexual Harassment On U.S. Workforce
Gillibrand’s new push for answers comes after U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics refused to provide data requested by Gillibrand and 21 other Senators in January; Thousands of U.S. workers file sexual harassment claims each year, yet no federal agency has comprehensive data about extent of the discrimination and its effect on the workforce