Press Releases
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $165K In Fed Funds For City Of Poughkeepsie Fire Department In Dutchess County
Funding Will Be Used To Purchase New Equipment To Protect Firefighters
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More Than $24K In Fed Funds For City Of Lackawanna Fire Department In Erie County
Funding Will Be Used To Purchase New Equipment To Protect Firefighters
Schumer, Gillibrand, Maloney Call On EPA To Provide Immediate Assistance To Help City Of Newburgh Comprehensively Test Water For PFOA-Related Contamination; Say EPA Experts Should Help Newburgh To Identify Sources- And Develop A Plan To Eradicate Any Threats
Newburgh Officials Have Found Elevated Levels Of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) – A Synthetic Chemical & Pollutant, Related to PFOA – In Silver Stream and Washington Lake; EPA Has Water Contamination Experts and Significant Experience Dealing With Such Issues Schumer, Gillibrand, Maloney Also Call on EPA to Complete its PFOA Review and Publish the New Standards So Communities Like Newburgh Can Make The Best Decisions To Protect Drinking Water Sources and the Public Health; EPA Promised to Pu
Gillibrand Urges National Park Service To Designate FDR Presidential Library And Museum-The Nation’s First Presidential Library, As National Historic Landmark
Gillibrand: “It’s finally time to make this designation official and solidify the FDR Library and Museum as a national landmark” After 75 years, National Historic Landmarks Committee of the National Park System Advisory Board scheduled to evaluate potential designation
Gillibrand Urges Dept. Of Housing And Urban Development To Designate City Of Schenectady As A Federal Promise Zone
Gillibrand: The Promise Zone designation would allow Schenectady to continue vital community development initiatives Promise Zone Designation would facilitate major investments in Schenectady to help empower neighborhoods and revitalize the local economy
Gillibrand Urges Dept. Of Housing And Urban Development To Designate Utica As A Federal Promise Zone
Gillibrand: The Promise Zone designation would allow Utica to continue vital community development initiatives Promise Zone Designation would facilitate major investments in Utica to help empower neighborhoods and revitalize the local economy
Schumer, Gillibrand Call On Obama Administration To Immediately Grant Temporary Protected Status To Ecuadorian Nationals Residing In U.S.-Will Allow Them To Stay In U.S. While Ecuador Recovers From Devastating Earthquake
A 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake That Struck Off Ecuador’s Central Coast Earlier this Month Destroyed Parts of Country, Killed Hundreds & Injured Thousands; In the Past, USCIS’ TPS Designation Has Been Designated to Countries in the Wake of a Natural Disaster Schumer, Gillibrand Call for Department of Homeland Security to Support TPS for Ecuadorian Individuals Living in U.S.; Temporary Benefit Would Help Ecuadorians Who May Be in Danger of Being Deported Despite Severe Devastation
Gillibrand Announces Key Long Island Sound Environmental Provisions Passed Out Of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, Headed To Senate Floor For A Vote
Gillibrand secures needed provisions to improve LI Sound & revise standards for disposing dredged material Gillibrand’s Measures now head to Senate floor for a vote as part of the Water Resources Development Act
Senators Request Meeting With Defense Secretary Carter To Discuss Allegations That DOD Deliberately Misled Congress On Military Sexual Assault Cases
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Dean...
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Completion Of Beach Renourishment Project At Long Island’s Smith Point County Park; Dunes And Berms Are Part Of 83-Mile Long Federally-Funded ‘Fire Island To Montauk Point’ Protection Project
Superstorm Sandy Breached Smith Point County Park Leaving South Shore Communities Vulnerable to Future Storm Damage; Senators Secured Full Federal Funding for Projects Along Fire Island to Montauk Point Coastline, Including Smith Point County Park Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Approximately 2.2 Million Cubic Yards of Sand Have Been Placed At Smith Point County Park; Dunes & Beach Berm Will Make Shoreline Stronger Schumer, Gillibrand: After Decades of Planning, South Shore Communities Like Masti