Press Releases
Gillibrand, Schumer, Hanna Announce After Their Push, Provisions that Would Provide Congress With More Oversight Over DFAS Personnel Plans and Add Protections for Rome DFAS Workers Included in Annual Defense Bill
Gillibrand, Schumer & Hanna Urged Armed Services Committee Leaders To Greenlight Provisions In November That Would Create More Congressional Oversight
Schumer, Gillibrand, Maffei Announce Provision to Create Harriet Tubman National Historical Park Included in National Defense Bill Unveiled Today – Urge Colleagues to Support Bill; House Will Vote This Week, Senate Next Week; Passage in Both Houses Would Then Send Request to President’s Desk
Schumer, Gillibrand, Maffei Have Campaigned To Honor The Life of Harriet Tubman in Auburn
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce More than $72 Million in Federal Funding to Upgrade & Replace Flood-Prone Upstate New York Bridges
Funding Will Be Used To Repair, Replace 29 Bridges in Capital Region, CNY, S. Tier, Hudson Valley, North Country
Schumer, Gillibrand, Lowey Announce More than $1.7 Million in Fed Funds for the Village of Nyack for Hurricane Sandy Repairs
Federal Funds Will Cover Costs of Repairing Retaining Walls & Bulkhead, Replacing Docks, Electrical System at Memorial Park & Marina Schumer: Long-Awaited Funds Will Enable Village of Nyack To Recover Hurricane Sandy
With NDAA Expected on Senate Floor in December, Former Air Force Chief Prosecutor Don Christensen Joins Gillibrand, Collins, Boxer, Grassley, Blumenthal, Cruz, Hirono, Paul, Heller in Push for Independent Military Justice System
Chairman of Joint Chiefs General Dempsey After Majority of the Senate Voted In Favor of Bipartisan Military Justice Improvement Act, Five Votes Shy of Breaking Filibuster: “A Majority of the Senate Expressed A Lack of Confidence In Our Ability To Solve This Ourselves…We Are Currently On The Clock If You Will…And If We Haven’t Been Able To Demonstrate We’re Making A Difference, You Know, Then We Deserve To Be Held To The Scrutiny And Standard.” (March 8, 2014)
Schumer, Gillibrand, Collins and Higgins Urge SBA to Prepare to Swiftly Offer Assistance to Western New Yorkers
LANCASTER, N.Y. - Senator Charles Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Chris Collins and Congressman Brian Higgins today wrote to Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Contreras-Sweet urging the SBA to prepare to swiftly administer disaster...
Gillibrand Statement On Resignation Of Secretary Of Defense Chuck Hagel
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement today after President Barack Obama announced the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel: "While I did not agree with Secretary Hagel on a number of issues, I deeply...
Gillibrand Calls On HUD Secretary To Designate Rochester A Federal Promise Zone
Gillibrand Letter To Secretary Castro Follows November 14th Visit To Rochester Teen Empowerment Youth Center
Schumer, Gillibrand, Higgins, Collins Urge USDA To Immediately Conduct Damage Assessment Of Impact Of Historic Snowstorm On WNY Farms – Urges USDA To Provide All Available Resources To Upstate Farmers Impacted By Devastating Snowfall
Schumer, Gillibrand, Higgins, Collins Write to USDA Urging Fed Agency To Assess the Damage & Be Ready To Act On a Disaster Declaration To Help Reimburse WNY Farmers, Flower Growers & Local Producers that Are Still In Midst Of Massive Snowstorm; USDA Funds Would Help Cover Crop, Livestock, Business Loss Costs
Gillibrand Along With Nine U.S. Senators Urge President Obama To Include Additional $7 Million In Funding In His Fy16 Budget Request To Enforce Campus Sexual Assault Provisions Of Clery Act And Title Ix Laws
Office for Civil Rights Investigating Increasing Number of Sexual Violence Complaints With Half The Staff It Had In 1980; Clery Act Compliance Division Has A Dozen Staff Members To Enforce The Law At Over 6,000 Colleges and Universities