Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing the Department of Veterans Affairs to recognize gioblastoma brain cancers in Vietnam Veterans as an Agent Orange-related illness. The Senate Minority Leader is taking up the case of Rochester’s Tom Cray, who was exposed to the toxic defoliant during two combat tours in Vietnam and is now fighting the cancer. […]
Governor Cuomo and Senator Chuck Schumer have announced a deal to save the troubled Kraft-Heinz dairy plant in Steuben County. The plant in Campbell is a familiar sight to travelers up and down I-390 and the Southern Tier Expressway. It will be bought by the Upstate Niagara dairy farmer cooperative. About half of the 330 […]
On the first day of Summer, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is calling on the Senate to pass bipartisan legislation that would allow summer camps and children’s organizations to access federal sex offender background checks. The New York Democrat says these organizations being unable to view the FBI database amounts to a major hole in […]