Press Releases

Nadler, Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $10.6 Million Federal Grant To Port Authority For Cross Harbor Freight Program

Port Authority awarded $10,672,590 to advance the Cross Harbor Freight Program, which would connect Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester, and Southern Connecticut to the national freight rail grid. New York City remains the only major city not connected to the country’s national freight rail network, with more than $1 trillion worth of freight per year entering NYC almost entirely by truck. The Cross Harbor Freight Program is one of only eighteen projects selected out of over 200 national

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Senator Gillibrand, Joined By Bipartisan Group Of Senators And Representatives, Urge DEA To Remove Barriers To Research On Medical Marijuana, Request Meeting

Citing New Information from the State Department and Documents from HHS, Senators and Representatives Urge DEA to Remove Cannabis from List of Schedule I Controlled Substances and End Medical Marijuana Research Supply Monopoly Senators Request Meeting with DEA Administrator If He Does Not Take Action On Medical Marijuana

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