U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, (D-NY), co-chair of the Great Lakes Task Force, announced $1.2 million for SUNY Brockport to monitor wetlands along the shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. ...

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter on Thursday remembered the service and sacrifice of fallen Rochester Police Officer Daryl Pierson by passing a bill to name the East Rochester Post Office in his honor. “I come before the House today to honor ...

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter wants New York state to remove unnecessary bureaucratic barriers in its Medicaid reimbursement protocol that are delaying benefits for Monroe County school districts. Current state guidelines require school superintendents to submit private, personally identifiable information like ...

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter will host a tele-town hall meeting tonight to discuss jobs, trade and the economy. She will talk to 25th Congressional District residents at 7 p.m. To register, https://louise.house.gov/telephone-town-hall.

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter Monday kicked off National Consumer Protection Week, which runs through Saturday. Throughout the week, she will highlight free consumer resources that help people avoid scams, prevent identity theft and make more informed decisions as a consumer. ...

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, a member of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, was to introduce Webster Firefighter Ted Scardino today at a bipartisan forum in Washington on gun trafficking prevention. Scardino was wounded Christmas Eve when a gunman ...

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As the Friday deadline approaches and the heat intensifies, more details on how the series of automatic spending cuts known as the “sequester” will affect Americans are emerging, although the exact impact locally remains unclear. The political brinksmanship in Congress, ...

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While company leadership was in bankruptcy court Monday morning, Hickey Freeman workers, joined by U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y,, and U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, for a rally in support of the high-end suit maker. The parent company, HMX ...

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The Fair Election Practices Committee has ruled a New York State Democratic Committee-paid mailer on behalf of U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, is “inaccurate and overstated.” The mailer is similar to a Slaughter TV ad that attempts to put a ...

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Public and private funding will be used to dredge the Port of Rochester this year, making it accessible once again to ships and barges bringing in raw materials relied upon by area businesses. Plans were announced Thursday by U.S. Rep. ...

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U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter on Monday announced $1.5 million will be given to the New York State Department of Transportation for planning and design of a new passenger intermodal rail station on Central Avenue.

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Rep. Louise Slaughter of Fairport has been honored with the highest honor awarded by the Rochester Institute of Technology. She was presented with the Presidential Medallion on Wednesday ...

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