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March 2005
03/01/05 Schumer: Bureau of Prisons Process Must Be Examined And Fixed Immediately, Pen Pal Privileges For Terrorists Must Stop

February 2005
02/17/05 Schumer Meets With NARS Commander; Pledges To Fight To Support Base In 2005
02/15/05 Schumer: Chertoff Willing To Fight Bush Admin. For More Funding, Focus In Homeland Security
02/13/05 Schumer Reveals New Gaping Hole in Air Security: in Simple Steps Terrorists on Watch List Could Board Flights No Questions Asked
02/10/05 Schumer: Dramatic Increase In Trade Deficit With China Shows Effects Of Currency Manipulation
02/03/05 Schumer Calls For More Aid For Flood Ravaged Guyana
02/01/05 Schumer Presses Homeland Security Nominee To Consider Endicott Interconnect For TSA Certification

January 2005
01/28/05 Schumer Presses Homeland Security Nominee To Make Northern Border A Priority
01/25/05 Schumer: Alexandria Bay Port Chosen To Test New Innovative Radio ID System To Improve Border Security
01/03/05 Schumer: Shared Border Management at the Peace Bridge Clears Second Major Hurdle in a Month

December 2004
12/21/04 Schumer: Shared Border Plan Will Save Hundreds of Homes, Make Buffalo a Draw for Commerce and Tourism
12/17/04 Schumer: Major Breakthrough In Quest For Shared Border Plan At The Peace Bridge
12/08/04 Schumer: Now Is the Time for Shared Border Management at the Peace Bridge

November 2004
11/28/04 Schumer Finds Fed's Proposed New Cargo Screening Rules Still Leave Gaping Hole In NY's Air Security
11/23/04 Schumer Persuades IRS To Enter New Tax Agreement With Canada That Brings Peace Bridge Closer To shared Border Management

October 2004
10/14/04 Schumer: Long Island Police & Fire Personnel Unable to Share Critical Information Unless Feds Clear Airwaves ASAP
10/10/04 Schumer, Clinton: Congress Approves $6.878 Million For Military Construction Projects in Auburn
10/10/04 Schumer, Clinton: Congress Approves $8.3 Million For Hancock Field Base
10/10/04 Schumer: Congress Authorizes $8.7 Million For Defense Projects At Fort Drum
10/10/04 Schumer: Measure To Assist Western NY Nuclear Workers Passes Congress
10/10/04 Schumer: Congress Approves Transfer of Griffiss Air Force Property
10/10/04 Schumer: Congress Approves Over $7.8 Million For Fire Crash Rescue Station In Niagara Falls
10/07/04 Schumer: New York's Cops, Firefighters & EMTS Likely To Get Nation's First Signal Corps Style Program To Communicate At Terror Sites
10/02/04 Schumer: Penn Station Fire Underscores Vulnerability of New York Subway and Commuter Rail Tunnels to Terror Attacks
10/01/04 Schumer: Westchester Rail Security Needs To Be Tightened - Madrid Bombing Should Serve As Warning

September 2004
09/16/04 Schumer-Clinton Amendment Forcing Deadbeat Diplomats to Pay Parking Tickets or Lose Foreign Aid Clears Key Hurdle
09/16/04 Schumer, Collins Applaud State Dept for Adding Saudi Arabia to List of Religiously Intolerant Nations
09/12/04 New Schumer Homeland Security Report Card: 3 Years Later, Feds' Efforts Still Leave New York Dangerously Unprotected
 
August 2004
08/09/04 Schumer, Collins Urge State Dept to Add Saudi Arabia to List of Religously Intolerant Nations
08/09/04 Schumer Asks White House Why it Leaked Name of Al Qaeda Informant
08/08/04 Schumer Reveals: with New Al Qaeda Focus on Truck Terror, There Are No Restrictions on Sales of Most Common Lethal Explosive
08/05/04 Schumer: Albany Arrests Are Warning Shot on Shoulder-held Missiles
08/03/04 Schumer: President’s Toothless Intelligence Director Is All Hat and No Cattle - Asks 9/11 Commission Members to Weigh in

July 2004
07/17/04 Schumer: New York Airspace Rules Leave City at Risk to Terrorism; Feds to Change Them for Convention Week Only, Senator Says Upgrades Should Be Permanent
07/09/04 Schumer Details New Data on New York’s Urgent Homeland Security Needs in Light of Yesterday’s Announcements by Tom Ridge
07/07/04 Schumer: Top Homeland Security Officials Strongly Considering Two Models for Shared Border Management at Peace Bridge

June 2004
06/30/04 Schumer: Subway Spy Expulsions Show NY Is at Security Risk from Iranian Diplomats; Urges Powell to Clean House at Iran's UN Mission
06/22/04 Schumer: Saudi Terror Snafus No Surprise When Saudi Interior Minister Has Been Sympathetic to Terrorists
06/20/04 Schumer: New Intelligence Shows Terrorists Targeting Shopping Centers; Feds Need Stronger Response to Strengthen Security in Malls

May 2004
05/30/04 Schumer: New FBI Warning about Truck Bombs at High-profile NYC Sites Shows Need for Comprehensive Anti-terror Truck-bomb Plan
05/27/04 Schumer Seeks More Disaster Relief Funds to Help Dominican Republic and Haiti Recover from Floods That Killed 1,950
05/22/04 Schumer Unveils New "US Homeland Security Signal Corps" So New York Cops, Firefighters & EMTs Can Communicate at Terror Sites
05/20/04 Schumer: Second Corrections Official with Checkered Record Put in Power Position at Iraqi Prisons
05/13/04 Schumer: Prison Official with Checkered past Put in Power Position at Abu Ghraib
05/04/04 Schumer Asks Air Force Junior ROTC to Give Staten Island Unit Time to Boost Enrollment
05/04/04 Schumer Honors 2nd Battalion 108th Infantry of NY National Guard Before the US Senate
05/03/04 Statement of Senator Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton Re. The Escape of Thomas Hamill from Captivity in Iraq

April 2004
04/23/04 Schumer Visits New Rome Air Force Research Lab for Ribbon Cutting and Building Dedication Ceremony
04/22/04 Clinton and Schumer Introduce New Legislation to Project 10,000 Acres of Puerto Rico's Carribean National Forest
04/15/04 Schumer: Aschroft & FBI Falling Way Short in War on Terrorism; Failed to take Adequate Corrective Action Even After 9/11
04/10/04 Schumer: Gaping Hole in NYC Security - 25,000 Unscreened Cruise Ship Passengers to Disembark Just Steps from G.O.P. Convention
04/09/04 Schumer Meets with New York Army National Guard Members Back from Iraq Suffering from Depleted Uranium Exposure
04/01/04 Schumer: International Court must Not Judge Israel’s Security Fence

March 2004
03/25/04 Schumer Urges 9/11 Commission to Reject New White House Request to Meet in Private with Rice until She Testifies in Public under Oath
03/24/04 Schumer: New Delays in FBI Computer Upgrades Pose National Security Threat
03/22/04 With Reserves & Guards like 105th Mp Overextended, Schumer Calls for Increase in Army's Active Duty Personnel
03/22/04 Senators Urge President to Ask Condoleeza Rice to Testify Before 9/11 Commission
03/17/04 Schumer: 105th Military Police Unit Will Leave Iraq in Early May & Be Officially Demobilized June 17
03/14/04 Schumer: Madrid Attacks Should Be Wake-up Call to Upgrade Rail and Subway Security
03/04/04 Schumer: Homeland Security Dept's Reversal Today Puts Brookhaven National Labs Back on the A-list
03/02/04 Schumer: Homeland Security Dept's Move to Downgrade Brookhaven National Labs Puts New York and Nation at Risk

February 2004
02/17/04 Schumer, Slaughter: for the First Time, Feds Will Base New Border Patrol Agents in Rochester to Patrol Lake Ontario
02/09/04 Schumer: State Dept May Be Considering Plan to Relax Visa Requirements for Saudis
02/08/04 Schumer and Whistle Blowers Reveal: New TSA Budget Leaves Key Aspects of NY Airport Security at Pre-9/11 Levels

January 2004
01/29/04 Schumer: Yesterday's State Department Move to Revoke Visas of Saudis Linked to Wahhabism Doesn't Go Far Enough
01/29/04 Schumer to President: Don't Shortchange LI Army Corps of Engineers Projects
01/28/04 Schumer: New Mydoom Virus Reveals Feds' Inability to Contain Cyber Attacks
01/22/04 Senators Urge Cheney to Make Chinese Currency Manipulation Top Issue at Davos
01/16/04 Schumer Steps up Lobbying Effort to Deliver Federal Copter Contracts To Owego's Lockheed Martin Plant
01/16/04 Schumer Details New Plan to Get Tough on China to Help Struggling Businesses in the Southern Tier
01/15/04 Schumer Details New Plan to Get Tough on China to Help Struggling Businesses in Orange County
01/13/04 Schumer Reveals: US Puts New Immigration Fingerprint ID System at 14 Seaports Nationwide – but Not New York
1/04/04 Schumer: Unlocked Cockpit Doors on Cargo Planes – Domestic and Foreign – Leaves New York Vulnerable to a Second 9/11

December 2003
12/30/03 Schumer Praises Ashcroft Decision to Recuse Himself from Justice Dept's CIA Leak Probe
12/16/03 Schumer Details New Plan to Get Tough on China to Help Struggling Businesses in Hudson Valley
12/15/03 Schumer Welcomes Back Fort Drum Soldiers from Overseas
12/11/03 Schumer Urges State Dept to Probe Two Saudi Diplomats with Links to Wahhabism
12/03/03 Schumer Unveils A-6 Fighter Plane and Cutting Edge Military Projects Newly Secured for RIT

November 2003
11/19/03 Schumer Urges President to Withdraw Oil Lobbyist Nominated to Be US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
11/18/03 Schumer to Iran: Cough up Subway Videotape Suspects for NYPD/FBI Questioning
11/13/03 Schumer: Buffalo Awarded over $10 Million in New Federal Funds to Cover Homeland Security Costs
11/13/03 Schumer: Albany Awarded over $6.8 Million in New Federal Funds to Cover Homeland Security Costs
11/13/03 Schumer: New York City Getting over $64 Million in New Federal Funds to Cover Homeland Security Costs
11/09/03 Schumer: New Allegations of Security Gaps at New York Cruise Ship Terminal Could Place One Million Passengers at Risk
11/06/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure over $1.5 Million for Army Support Facility at Rochester Air National Guard Base
11/06/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $3.5 Million for Bioinformatics and New Hauptman-Woodward Biotech Facility
11/06/03 Schumer, Clinton: Congress Approves $87.7 Million for Fort Drum
11/05/03 Schumer, Israel Urge Pentagon to Boost Bounty for Missing Iraqi Shoulder-fired Missiles
11/03/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-ups Are Costing LI Police Depts $55,000 a Week – and That Will Skyrocket as More Units Are Activated

October 2003
10/21/03 President Acts on Schumer, Senate Demand, Blasts Malaysian PM for Anti-Semitic Call to Arms
10/15/03 Schumer, Kennedy Raise New Questions about DOJ Probe into CIA Leak: Who Is in Charge?
10/14/03 Schumer Fights Plan That Could Leave High Level Waste at West Valley
10/08/03 Senators: Missing Iraqi Shoulder-fired Missiles Underscore Need to Equip Us Planes with Anti-missile Technology
10/03/03 Schumer: Justice Dept Missteps Again in CIA Leak Probe by Telegraphing to Potential Culprits That it Will Seek Records
10/02/03 Schumer Urges Ashcroft to Recuse Himself from Justice Dept's CIA Leak Investigation
10/01/03 Schumer: Questions Already Arising with Justice Dept's Investigation of CIA Leak
10/01/03 Schumer Introduces Doug Barclay's Nomination to Be U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
10/01/03 New Schumer Homeland Security Report Card Gives Feds "C-" on Upstate New York

September 2003
09/30/03 Schumer Blasts Customs for Failing to Submit Shared Border Management Plan to Congress
09/30/03 Schumer, Boxer, Israel Unveil Plan to Equip Commercial Jets Used by Military with Anti-missile Capabilities
09/26/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Approves $1.75 Million for HYPRES
09/26/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Backs $29.5 Million for WNY Defense Projects
09/26/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Approves $11.2 Million for Rochester Defense Technologies
09/26/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $1.1 Million for Binghamton University
09/26/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Approves $6 Million for Syracuse Defense Industries
09/25/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $1.7 Million for National Center for Excellence in Infotonics
09/25/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $32.5 Million for Schweizer Aircraft for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
09/25/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $17.5 Million for Capital Region Area Projects
09/25/03

Schumer: Saudis Are Main Financiers Of Terror

09/24/03 Schumer: NYPD Getting $9m from Feds for Homeland Security Overtime Costs
09/24/03 With Guantanamo Arrests Suggesting Major Military Security Problem, Schumer Urges Top-to-bottom Review of Most Sensitive Bases
09/24/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-up Taking Droves of New York Cops off the Streets; Costing Local Police Departments Millions
09/23/03 New Revelation: Captain Yee Was Trained And Selected to Be a Muslim Chaplain by Group Being Investigated for Terrorism
09/17/03 Schumer: Virginia Charity Linked to Hamas and Saudis Has Escaped Federal Charges
09/15/03 Schumer Slams Justice Dept for Giving up on Trying to Interview Families of 9/11 Hijackers
09/14/03 Schumer Releases New Homeland Security Report Card: Federal Effort Still Leaves New York Dangerously Unprotected
09/12/03 Schumer Launches New Coast Guard "Swat Team" for New York
09/10/03 Schumer: Saudis Playing Role in Spreading Main Terror Influence in United States
09/08/03 Schumer to Powell: Pressure Saudis to Fire Interior Minister Blocking Investigation of NYC Subway Poison Gas Attack
09/05/03 Schumer, Clinton Secure $4 MillionFor New Hartford-based Par LMS’s Cargo*Watchtm Program
09/04/03 32 Senators Question Administration Silence on Saudi Oil Production Cuts Just as Gas Prices Hit Historic Highs

August 2003
08/28/03 Schumer Brings High-level Federal Security Official to Endicott to See EI's Plans for New Bomb-detecting Device
08/25/03 Schumer: Feds Should Send More Funds to Erie County for New Bio-defense Laboratory
08/13/03 Schumer Urges President to Directly Address American People on What He Will Do about Missile Threat to U.S. Planes
08/08/03 Schumer Pans New White House Effort to Protect Planes from Missile Attack
08/05/03 Schumer Urges White House to Think Twice about Cutting Aid to Israel over Security Fence Dispute
08/04/03 Schumer: Is the Justice Dept Giving Special Treatment to Saudi Sought for Questioning in 9/11 Probe?
08/01/03 Senators Appeal Decision to Keep The 9/11 Report's 28 Pages Classified

July 2003
07/31/03 Schumer Urges Saudis to Fire Minister in Charge of Saudi Anti-terrorism Efforts
07/29/03 Schumer, Senators to Bush: Tell Sharon That U.S. Backs Israel's Right to Build a West Bank Security Fence 100%
07/29/03 Schumer: Saudis Need to Turn over Saudi Official Linked to 9/11 Hijackers, Photo-op Diplomacy Not Good Enough
07/29/03 Senators: Controversial Model Rocket Bill Making it Easier to Get Bomb-making Materials Quietly Creeps to Senate Floor
07/28/03 Schumer Warns That the 5 Million Trucks Going Through Buffalo Each Year Pose Major Terrorist Threat
07/27/03 Schumer, 9/11 Families Push Administration to Extradite Saudi Big to U.S. for Questioning
07/25/03 With Key Figure in 9/11 Report Living in Saudi Arabia, Schumer Urges White House to Pressure Saudis to Turn Him Over
07/24/03 Schumer: White House Has a Systematic Strategy of Coddling and Cover-up When it Comes to the Saudis
07/24/03 Schumer Asks Mueller to Open an FBI Investigation into Illegal Leak of CIA Agent's Identity
07/21/03 Schumer Announces New Plan to Bring down Remittance Costs - NY Immigrants Pay Millions in Fees When Sending Money Home
07/11/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $1 Million for RIT Defense Initiative
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: $12.7 Million for LI Navy Contractors Clear Senate Hurdle
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: New $2 Million for Brooklyn Polytech Clears Senate Hurdle
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $46.4 Million for Schweizer Aircraft for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $5 Million for Rome Defense Projects
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $12.4 Million for WNY Defense Projects
07/10/03 Senate Backs Schumer Amendment Forcing Deadbeat Diplomats to Pay
Property Taxes or Lose Foreign Aid
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $9 Million for Watervliet Arsenal
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Committee Approves $1 Million
For Cortland Cable
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Key Senate Panel Backs $3.5 Million for National Center for Excellence in Infotonics
07/10/03 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Committee Approves $1.5 Million for Syracuse Research Corporation
07/09/03 Schumer Seeks Probe into Allegations of Administration Stonewalling on 9/11 Commission
07/07/03 On Heels of Al Qaeda Truck-driver Plot, Schumer to Warn That the 1.9 Million Trucks Going Through Syracuse Pose Major Terrorist Threat

June 2003
06/30/03 Schumer to Powell: Stop Blocking Hijack Victims from Getting Iranian Assets
06/23/03 On Heels of Al Qaeda Truck-driver Plot, Schumer to Warn That the 3.5 Million Trucks Going Through Cap Region Pose Major Terrorist Threat
06/21/03 Schumer: House Cuts to NYC Homeland Security Unconscionable in Light of Brooklyn Bridge Plot
06/16/03 Schumer Brings Top US Transportation Safety Official Asa Hutchinson to New York City to Examine Security in Penn Station Tunnels
06/12/03 Schumer to Rumsfeld: Protect Religious Artifacts in Iraq
06/12/03 Schumer, Clinton: $20.2 Million Is on the Way to Protect Port of NY from Terrorism
06/12/03 Schumer, Clinton: $1.1 Million Headed to Rochester's Canadian American Transportation Systems
06/09/03 Schumer Urges Rumsfeld to Award Jobs-producing Copter Contracts to Owego's Lockheed Martin Plant
06/06/03 Schumer Warns That the 4.2 Million Trucks Going Through Orange County Each Year Pose Terrorist Threat
06/02/03 Schumer Takes FEMA and NRC to Task for Missing Indian Point Evacuation Meeting, Urges Them to Schedule New One ASAP
06/02/03 Schumer, Rivera and Carrion to Feds: Conduct Comprehensive Survey Of Health Services on Vieques Now

May 2003
05/26/03 After TSA Fires 16,000 Airport Screeners, New Schumer Study Finds 950,000 People Flew To/from NY on Planes with Unscreened Cargo and Mail
05/21/03 Schumer: You Can't Have Orange Alert in Name Only
05/20/03 Schumer Scolds TSA over Plans to Delay Key New York Port Security Program
05/19/03 Schumer Wants Saudi Interior Minister Removed from Leading Probe into Last Week's Terror Attacks
05/19/03 Schumer to Powell: Delay Roadmap While Mideast Terror Continues
05/19/03 On Heels of Gas Tanker Explosion, Schumer Warns That the 1.4 Million Trucks Going Through Rochester Pose Terrorist Threat
05/15/03 Schumer: Homeland Security Dept Taking Early Steps to Start Outfitting Commercial Airliners with Anti-missile Technology
05/14/03 Schumer: New York Is Getting $207 Million in Federal Funds to Cover "Orange Alert" Homeland Security Costs
05/14/03 Schumer: Only 10% of 911 Hotline Centers Have Enrolled in Federal Disaster Contingency Program
05/14/03 Schumer: More Terror in Store for US and Saudis If Royal Family Keeps Funding Madrassah Schools That Preach Anti-american Extremism
05/11/03 Schumer Unveils New S.U. Computer System That Will Help FBI Decode Terrorist Communications
05/09/03 Schumer: Senate Committee Authorizes $1 Million to Cortland Cable for New Helicopter Tow Cables Used in Mine and Undersea Warfare
05/09/03 Schumer: Funds for Theater Support Vessel to Be Built in Northport Clear Early Hurdle in Senate
05/09/03 Schumer: Senate Committee Authorizes $9.7 Million for Grumman to Upgrade Missile Detection Radar on US Navy Ships
05/09/03 Schumer: Funds for Joint Threat Emitter in Amherst & Visiting Quarters for Niagara Falls Nat'l Guard Base Clear Early Hurdle in Senate
05/08/03 Schumer, Clinton Join Bipartisan Push for Northern Border Funding
05/08/03 Senate Passes Schumer, Kyl Moussaoui-fix
05/08/03 Schumer to Feds: Complete Criminal Checks on NY's Airport Screeners Would Have Prevented Recent Thefts from Passengers

April 2003
04/24/03 Schumer: Feds must Do More to Secure Lake Ontario from Terrorist Threats
04/22/03 Schumer Proposes "International Zone" to End Delays Holding up Creation of Joint US-Canadian Peace Bridge Facility
04/12/03 Schumer Asks FBI to Add '93 WTC Bombing Fugitive Last Seen in Baghdad to Search List
04/10/03 Schumer to Diplomat Scofflaws: Pay Your Property Taxes or Lose Foreign Aid
04/02/03 Lawmakers to Seek $30 Million to Equip Airliners from Wartime Stinger Attack
04/01/03 Schumer Urges Rumsfeld Not to Cut Contract with Company Employing 2,000 from Western New York

March 2003
03/30/03 Schumer: Expand Combat Zone Tax Benefits to Include Spouses of Soldiers Fighting In Iraq (NYC and Long Island)
03/26/03 Schumer: Expand Combat Zone Tax Benefits to Include Spouses of Soldiers Fighting In Iraq
03/23/03 Schumer: Fight for New York Aid Comes to a Head this Week
03/21/03 Schumer: Effort to Increase Federal Support for Police, Firefighters Scores First Victory in the Senate
03/19/03 Schumer Meets with Top US Border Security Official about Tightening Northern Border
03/19/03 Schumer Meets with Top US Border Security Official to Push Him on Peace Bridge
Shared Border Mgt Facility
03/19/03 Schumer: US must Show 9/11 Families the Blueprints of Saudi Support for Al Qaeda
03/17/03 Schumer: Feds Need to Help Localities Cover New Expenses Incurred by Possible Iraq War
03/16/03 Schumer Urges Feds to Cover NY's Expanded Security Costs in Advent of War
03/13/03 Schumer Urges Feds to Build New Border Patrol Facility in Oswego
03/10/03 Schumer: Shared Border Facility on Canadian Side of Peace Bridge Closer to Creation
03/07/03 Schumer Urges Customs to Expedite Installation of Champlain Border Crossing System to Avoid Summer Traffic Delays
03/06/03 Senators: North Korea's Ability to Produce Nuclear Material Makes U.S. Border Security Far More Important
03/04/03 Schumer: Saudi Government must Eradicate Hate Rhetoric in Textbooks
03/02/03 Schumer, Corzine Unveil Comprehensive Four-point Plan to Protect Chemical Plants from Terror Attacks

February 2003
02/27/03 With Homeland Security Set to Consolidate 11 Federal Agencies on Saturday, Schumer Offers Blueprint for Dept's next Steps
02/24/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-up Could Take Dozens of Buffalo Cops and Firefighters off the Streets; Already Costing Area Thousands
02/24/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-up Could Take Dozens of Rochester Cops, Firefighters off the Streets; Already Costing Area Thousands
02/23/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-up Could Take Dozens of Syracuse First Responders off the Streets; Already Costing Area Thousands
02/14/03 Schumer, Lowey Unveil New Plan to Protect New York Airports from Wartime Stinger Missile Attack
02/09/03 Schumer, Rep. Israel Unveil New Plan to Protect NYC Airports from Wartime Stinger Missile Attack
02/06/03 Schumer Urges State to Remove Militant Clerics Right Away; NY Prison Chaplains Spreading Al Qaeda- Type Extremism to Inmates
02/03/03 Schumer: Reservist Call-ups Could Take Hundreds of NYC and LI NYPD, FDNY, EMT off the Streets, Cost Area Millions of Dollars

January 2003
01/27/03 Schumer Calls for Probe into Cheating on Federal Airport Security Screener Tests
01/27/03 Schumer to Head up New Homeland Security Task Force for Senate Democrats
01/17/03 Schumer Presses FBI on How it Plans to Pursue Anti-terror Agenda in Wake of
GOP Effort to Lay off 1,200 Agents
01/17/03 Senate Passes Schumer Effort to Provide $150 Million to Strengthen Port Security, Stop Nuclear Bombs from Being Smuggled into US
01/15/03 Schumer, Kyl Introduce Moussaoui-fix
01/08/03 Schumer Urges Cornell Not to Close Vital Long Island Labor Training Facility

December 2002
12/22/02 Schumer: 8 Million Unsecured Trucks Going in and out of New York City Every Year Pose Serious Terrorist Threat
12/10/02 Schumer Urges NRC to Launch Safety Probe at Indian Point
12/05/02 Schumer, Boehlert Urge More Funding for Rome Cyberscience Lab
12/05/02 Schumer: Guy Molinari Is a Perfect Choice for the 9/11 Commission
12/04/02 Schumer: New Federal Budget Cuts Endanger NYC Hospitals' Ability to Deal with Future Terror Attacks
12/04/02 Schumer: Saudis Are Suffering From Arafat Double Talk Syndrome

November 2002
11/22/02 Schumer Joins FEMA and Pace University Officials to Announce FEMA Grant
For 9/11 Recovery
11/21/02 Schumer: Feds must Scrap Emergency Wall Street Plan That Will Send Thousands of High Paying Financial Jobs out of NYC
11/20/02 Schumer Initiative Gives Terrorism Victims Access to Frozen Assets of Terrorist States for First Time Ever
11/20/02 Schumer: Country's Focus on Homeland Security and War Against Terrorism Could Lead to Major Job Growth in Hudson Valley
11/19/02 Schumer Provision in Homeland Security Bill Will Boost Information Sharing Between Feds and Local Law Enforcement
11/19/02 Schumer Takes Pentagon to Task over Failure to Repair Seneca Army Depot
11/18/02 Schumer: Great Lakes Communities like Rochester Overlooked in Federal Homeland Security Effort
11/14/02 Schumer: Champlain Border Lacks Important Technology to Increase Security and Speed Traffic
11/14/02 Schumer Outraged at Decision to Exclude 9/11 Commission from Homeland Security Bill

October 2002
10/21/02 Schumer Says Federal Efforts on Northern Border Security Fall Short
10/16/02 On Eve of Ashcroft Visit to Buffalo, Schumer Urges A.G. to Take Specific Action on Border Security
10/10/02 Schumer, Clinton: Fort Drum to Get $18.3 Million in Improvements
10/08/02 Schumer to Powell: US-Canada Border Crossing Agreement Could Cripple Buffalo Resources
10/02/02 Schumer: Experts Say Gas, Heating Oil Prices in NY Could Skyrocket If There Is an Iraq War
10/01/02 Schumer Presses FEMA on Reimbursing Oswego County for Security Expenses

September 2002
09/27/02 Schumer Unveils New Cargo Security Program for Port of New York/New Jersey
09/22/02 New Schumer Homeland Security Report: Federal Effort to Protect New York from Future Attack Is Severely Lagging
09/12/02 Schumer to Customs Department: Why Was Uranium Smuggled into New York Harbor?
09/10/02 Schumer on 9/11: We're Safer than a Year Ago but We Still Have a Long Way to Go
09/09/02 Schumer, Clinton Unveil 9/11 Recovery Agenda

August 2002
08/25/02 Schumer Reveals Cargo Inspections Severely down since 9/11 at JFK, Potential Danger to New York
08/01/02 Schumer: Extradite Sheikh Yassin and Other Hamas Leaders to Stand Trial In U.S. for Murder of 5 U.S. Citizens

July 2002
07/23/02 Schumer, Clinton Secure Nearly $5.5 Million for Rome Air Force Research Laboratory
07/22/02 Schumer: Funds for Syracuse Univ. Program That Could Aid Homeland Security Clears 1st Hurdle
07/19/02 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Committee Approves $13 Million for Long Island Defense Technologies
07/19/02 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Committee Approves Funding for Technology Projects in Buffalo Region
07/18/02 Schumer, Clinton: Senate Committee Approves Funding to Help Watervliet Attract Investors
07/03/02 Schumer Fights for Federal Program That Helped Upstate Businesses Secure
$8.4 Million in Government Contracts
07/01/02 Schumer Delivers Defense Department Small Business Program to Finger Lakes

June 2002
06/27/02 Schumer, Warner Introduce Nuclear Security Legislation to Detect Weapons of Mass Destruction at Ports, Border Crossings
06/27/02 Schumer, Ben Affleck Call on Bush To Support Nuclear Security Legislation
06/20/02 Schumer Wants Defense Department Small Business Program in The Finger Lakes
06/16/02 Schumer Announces Bill to Counter "Dirty Bomb" Threat to New York, nation
06/13/02 "Dirty Bomb" Plot Spurs Schumer to Call For US Marshals to Guard Nuclear Waste
That Would Go Through New York
06/05/02 Schumer, Kyl to Introduce Moussaoui-fix

May 2002
05/30/02 Schumer Fights for Federal Program That Helped Local Businesses Secure
$94 Million in Government Contracts
05/30/02 Schumer Fights For Federal Program That Helped Local Businesses Secure $94 Million in Government Contracts
05/12/02 Schumer: New York Dangerously Unprepared For Nuclear Terrorist Threat
05/08/02 New Schumer Survey Shows That Upstate Security Costs Are Continuing to Mount
05/02/02 Schumer, Smith Announce New Bill to Investigate Charities with Links to Terrorism

April 2002
04/25/02 Schumer, Clinton Denounce Rise of Anti-Semitic Violence in Europe
04/25/02 Schumer Presses Feds on Reimbursing Local Airports For Security Costs
04/23/02 Schumer Pitches PARC Facility to U.S. Customs Service, Urging it to Site a New Border Patrol Aviation Base There
04/11/02 With Nuclear Sites Seeking Delay on Upgrades, Schumer Urges NRC to Help Plants Tighten Security
04/01/02 Schumer Calls on State Dept., INS to Grant Temporary Protected Status For Colombians

March 2002
03/27/02 Schumer: RIT Playing Key Role In Military Preparedness
03/27/02 Schumer Bill Would Help FBI Work With Western NY Police to Prevent Terror Attacks
03/27/02 Schumer Bill Would Help FBI Work With Rochester Police to Prevent Terror Attacks
03/26/02 Schumer Bill Would Make it Easier For the FBI to Enlist Help of Central New York Police in Preventing Terrorist Attacks
03/22/02 Schumer Bill Would Make it Easier for the FBI to Enlist Help of Westchester Police in Preventing Terrorist Attacks
03/22/02 Schumer, Clinton Want to Arm National Guard Troops on The Border
03/20/02 Schumer Calls For Creation of Law Enforcement Supercomputer
03/05/02 Schumer Introduces Bill to Increase Cyber Security And Protect New York From Terrorist Hack Attack

February 2002
02/27/02 Schumer Tells INS its Boat Plan Must Protect North Country's Summertime Economy and the Nation's Security
02/17/02 Schumer: New York Dangerously Unprepared For Cyber Terrorist Attack
02/13/02 Senate Hearing Reveals New Evidence Showing U.S. Vulnerable to Massive Cyber-Terrorist Attack From Iran, Iraq, Al Qaeda
02/06/02 New York's Northern Border To Get 62 New Customs Officers
02/04/02 Schumer Calls for Peace Bridge to Be Pilot Site for New Border Upgrades

December 2001
12/20/01 Schumer and Israel Secure $6 Million for Long Island Military Projects
12/20/01 Schumer, Clinton Secure Almost $22 Million for Buffalo Companies to Develop Simulators for Navy and Air Force
12/20/01 Schumer, Slaughter Secure $3 Million for RIT Project in Defense Bill
12/13/01 Schumer: Peace Can Only Come Once The US Gives Israel the Green Light to Eliminate Hamas and the Hezbollah
12/09/01 Schumer: Inadequate Security Poses Severe Terrorist Threat to NY, US Ports
12/07/01 Schumer Presses Canadian Ambassador on Consolidation of Peace Bridge Border Crossings
12/07/01 Schumer Secures $19 Million for Watervliet in Senate Defense Bill
12/07/01 Schumer: Senate Gives National Guard Called up by Governor Civil Relief Benefits
12/05/01 Schumer: Border Security Is Vital Part of Homeland Security
12/04/01 Schumer and Clinton Announce New Federal Funding for New York
12/03/01 Schumer: Peace Can Only Come Once the US Gives Israel the Green Light to Eliminate Hamas and the Hezbollah

November 2001

11/14/01

Schumer Calls On Homeland Security Office And NRC To Boost Safety At New York Nuclear Sites

11/13/01 Schumer Announces Agreement With State Dept And US Embassy To Expedite Visa Approvals For Families Of Flight 587 Victims To Travel To US For Funerals
11/05/01 Schumer Calls On USDA To Conduct Full And Immediate Security Overview Of Plum Island

October 2001

10/15/01

Schumer: Drivers Could See Some Relief From Traffic Congestion At Area Border Crossings


September 2001

09/20/01

Schumer Urges Nation To Heed President's Call For Patience And Resolve As Nation Embarks On Campaign To Eradicate Terrorism

09/13/01 Floor Statement Of Senator Charles E. Schumer
09/12/01 Floor Statement Of Senator Charles E. Schumer
09/11/01 Statement From U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer
09/09/01 Schumer To Diplomat Scofflaws: Pay Your Tickets Or Lose Foreign Aid
09/04/01 Schumer Commends Bush On Withdrawal From UN Racism Conference

August 2001

08/09/01

Schumer: Today’s Suicide Bombing In Jerusalem Underscores Need For Aggressive Israeli Defense Tactics


July 2001

07/30/01

Schumer To Bush: Listen To The People, Stop The Bombing Now

07/26/01

Senate Overwhelmingly Passes Re-Authorization Of Iran-Libya Sanctions Act For Five Years

07/09/01

Schumer Calls On Israel And US To Begin Negotiating Timetable For US Embassy Move


June 2001

06/30/01

Schumer Announces Trip To Israel

06/14/01

Schumer, Clinton Call For Eradication Of Hate Rhetoric By The Palestinian Authority

06/07/01

Schumer, Smith Introduce Bill To Renew Sanctions Against Iran And Libya

06/03/01

Schumer To Congress: Fund New US Embassy Construction Before American Lives Are Threatened Again


May 2001

05/25/01

Schumer: Momentum Building To Get Bush To Endorse Medal Of Honor For Local WWI Hero Henry Johnson

05/21/01

Schumer Says Mitchell Report "Falls Far Short" Of Balance Needed To Stop Cycle Of Violence

05/08/01

Schumer, Smith Urge German Ambassador To Help Block Sale Of Oil Assets In Libya To German Firm


April 2001

04/23/01

Schumer Leads Rally To Urge President To Endorse Medal Of Honor For Local WWI Hero Henry Johnson

04/08/01

Schumer, Ackerman Call On Powell To Intervene In Case Against Queens Businessman Being Held In South Korea


March 2001

03/31/01

Schumer, Clinton Praise Bush For Taking Tough Stance Against Arafat; Say President Should Not Deal With PLO Leader Until Arafat Abandons Violence


February 2001

02/27/01

Schumer Calls On Defense Department To Help Deliver Emergency Relief Supplies To El Salvador

02/27/01

Schumer, McNulty Fight To Pave Way For Local Group To Get Emergency Supplies To El Salvador

02/19/01

Schumer: Sharon Is Right To Reject Negotiations Until Arafat Stops The Violence


Januaru 2001

01/18/01

Army Recommends Medal Of Honor For World War I Hero Henry Johnson


December 2000

12/11/00

Schumer To State Department: Stop Omitting Palestinians From Terrorism Website


November 2000

11/22/00

Schumer To Annan: Oppose Push To Send International Peacekeepers To Stop Violence In Middle East

11/07/00

Schumer Demands Return Of Kidnapped Israel Defense Forces Soldiers

11/04/00

Schumer: President Was Right To Veto The Intelligence Authorization Act

11/01/00

Schumer: Lame Duck Session Offers Congress One Last Chance To Pass UDI To Protect Israeli Security

11/01/00

Schumer: Intelligence Authorization Act Violates Core Purpose Of First Amendment


October 2000

10/27/00

Schumer: Intelligence Authorization Act Violates Core Purpose Of First Amendment

10/12/00

Schumer Calls Arafat's Failure To Stop Violence In Middle East "Simply Unacceptable"


September 2000

09/21/00

Schumer Condemns Appeals Court Verdict In Iranian Jews Espionage Trial

09/11/00

Schumer: "Palenistian Delay Of Statehood Declaration Not Enough"

09/06/00

Schumer Calls For State And Justice Department Crackdown On Charity Organizations With Terrorist Ties


July 2000

07/25/00

Statement Of Senator Charles Schumer On The Collapse Of The Middle East Peace Talks

07/19/00

Schumer: Buffalo Tech Firms Will Receive $43.4 Million From Defense Appropriations


June 2000

06/25/00

Preliminary Government Report On West Nile Virus: U.S. Labs Are Unprepared For Bioterrorist Attack; Lab Capacity Insufficient To Handle Major Viral Outbreak

06/21/00

Senate Clears Schumer-Bennett Bill Requiring Federal Agencies & Pentagon To Report On Cyber-Defense Plans

06/15/00

Schumer, McNulty, Moynihan Announce Watervliet Arsenal Has Won Lucrative Howitzer Contract From Navy

06/15/00

Statement: Brookings Institution Symposium On Technological Change And American Security


May 2000

05/04/00

Senate Passes Schumer Resolution Calling On President To Condemn Arrest And Trial Of 13 Jews In Iran


November 1999

11/19/99

Schumer, McNulty Resolution Honoring Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing Passed By Congress

11/04/99

Schumer Introduces Legislation To Bring Justice To WWII Slave Laborers


September 1999

09/27/99

Schumer Issues Comprehensive Approach To Combating Weapons Proliferation


March 1999

03/24/99

Statement Of Senator Charles E. Schumer On NATO Action In Kosovo


 
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