WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Paul D. Tonko today spoke before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to highlight his bipartisan Helping Experts Accelerate Rare Treatments (HEART) Act, legislation he introduced alongside Congressman David B. McKinley (R-WV) that advances a collection of reforms at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to strengthen the agency’s review and… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Just over one year since the passage of the American Rescue Plan, Congressman Paul D. Tonko announced nearly $150 million in funding to universities and other educational institutes serving Capital Region students. These landmark investments are already helping make institutions of higher education—especially community colleges—more affordable during the COVID-19 pandemic,… Read more »
AMSTERDAM, NY—Congressman Paul D. Tonko today announced that Capital Region schools and libraries are being delivered $8,907,780 in funding from the American Rescue Plan’s Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF). The program, established under the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), helps students connect to the internet at home by providing broadband access, laptops, Wi-Fi hotspots, and… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Paul D. Tonko cheered the passage of legislation he led, H.R. 4192, the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Commission Reauthorization Act to reauthorize the Commission for 15 years as part of the bipartisan omnibus spending package advanced through Congress and expected to be signed into law by the President today. This reauthorization will ensure that… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Tonko announced today transformative investments delivered in H.R. 2471, bipartisan government funding legislation that will help working families with the cost of living, create American jobs, and support the vulnerable.
“The historic investments advanced in our bipartisan omnibus package are a reflection of America’s deepest values,” Congressman Tonko said.… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Paul D. Tonko today cheered the news that all 10 of the Capital Region Community Projects he has fought to include in the FY2022 federal budget have been added as part of the larger omnibus spending bill. This group of ten diverse projects, ranging from clean energy initiatives and broadband internet expansion to water infrastructure upgrades and public health… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Following Congressman Paul D. Tonko’s announcement of 10 Capital Region Community Projects included in the federal budget, project and community leaders celebrated the transformational funding and commended the Congressman for championing these local projects. The package is expected to be advanced and signed into law this week.
Rep. Tonko’s release heralding the funding… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Paul D. Tonko today led the full New York delegation in a letter to Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo calling for the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) and National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP)—created under the CHIPS for America Act—to be established in New York State.
This letter speaks to the goals outlined in… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Paul D. Tonko today voted to advance H.R. 3967, the Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act or Honoring our PACT Act, which will finally treat toxic exposure as a cost of war by addressing the full range of issues impacting toxic-exposed veterans’, and includes Tonko’s Fort McClellan Health Registry Act. Tonko’s bill establishes a health… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Following President Biden’s State of the Union address where he called for the removal of barriers in addiction treatment, Representatives Paul D. Tonko (D-NY) and Michael Turner (R-OH) renewed their call for Congress to pass their Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act. The bipartisan legislation would vastly increase access to life-saving addiction medicine by… Read more »
