The Pentagon has awarded Rochester’s Harris Corporation a $255 million contract to manufacture high-tech portable military radio gear. Senator Charles Schumer’s Office says the communications gear will be made for United States Special Operations units and also for American allies. They’ll help Special Forces receive and send intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data including full motion […]
United States Senator Chuck Schumer brought his campaign for tougher rail shipping safety standards to Bergen in Genesee County this afternoon. Near the site of last month’s CSX freight train derailment, the Senate Democratic Leader said he wants the Departments of Transportation and Energy to come out with their safety review of crude oil shipment. […]
United States Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY) was in Rochester today, drumming up support to put a “Buy American Steel” provision back into the Senate’s Water Resources Development Act. At Klein Steel, the New York Democrat said the Senate stripped the Buy America provision from the bill that funds long term water and sewer infrastructure […]