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Opioid Related Deaths at All Time High; Deaths On Staten Island Increased Over 155 Percent Since 2004; 51 People are Killed Every Day by an Overdose Involving Prescription Opioids Senator Gillibrand’s Legislation Would Require CDC to Issue Guidelines for Prescribing of Opioids for Treatment of Acute Pain Gillibrand: “When someone gets a tooth out and only needs medication for three days, why are they sent home from the doctor’s office with 30 Percocet?”

New York, NY – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand yesterday visited Win (formerly Women in Need), the largest provider of shelter for homeless families in New York City, to meet with a homeless mother fleeing domestic violence and make art with...

Gillibrand’s Legislation Would Put Designated “Manufacturing Communities” like Queens in Front of the Line to Receive Federal Economic Development Funding

Federal Dept. of Transportation Grant Funds Improvements To Airport Terminal & Taxiways

Federal Dept. of Transportation Grants Fund Critical Infrastructure Upgrades At Area Airports

Funds Will Be Used To Purchase Vehicle Extrication Equipment

Schumer & Gillibrand urged the creation of NIFA Specialty Crop Research Initiative in 2014 Farm Bill Cornell University to use funding for research to create viable & sustainable broccoli industry on the East Coast First installment of federal funds to Cornell University scheduled to begin in September

Funding Will Be Used To Purchase New Fire Engine

Funding Will Be Used To Purchase Critical Equipment To Keep Firefighters Safe

Federal Funding For Troy Fire Department Will Be Used to Hire 7 New Firefighters