Press Releases
RHINEBECK, NY – Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) visited Red Hook, Milton, and Ellenville to speak with farmers, local elected officials, and small business owners about COVID-19 relief. The Congressman highlighted American Rescue Plan provisions to support farmers and producers, local governments, our tourism industry, and small businesses.
RHINEBECK, NY – The Lugar Center, founded by the late former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, named U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) as one of the most bipartisan members of the House of Representatives. Rep.
RHINEBECK, NY – Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) announced that restaurants, food trucks, bars, bakeries, breweries, wineries, and other entities in upstate New York will be able to apply for direct relief through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund beginning TODAY, May 3, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
RHINEBECK, NY – Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19), along with Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Don Beyer (VA-08), Mike Kelly (PA-16), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and Don Bacon (NE-02) reintroduced the Military Spouse Hiring Act, bipartisan legislation that incentivizes employers to hire spouses of members of the United States Armed Forces.
RHINEBECK, NY – U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s Joint Address to Congress:
RHINEBECK, NY – Ahead of President Biden's Joint Address to Congress, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) released statistics highlighting the new federal resources that New York families and upstate communities have received as a result of the historic American Rescue Plan.
RHINEBECK, NY – Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to release new practice guidelines to allow practitioners to more easily prescribe a proven effective opioid addiction treatment to patients. This guidance answers U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado’s (NY-19) call to remove the “x-waiver.” In 2019, Rep.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Antonio Delgado (NY-19) and Nancy Mace (SC-01) introduced the VA Peer Support Enhancement for MST Survivors Act. The bipartisan bill establishes a peer support program at the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) for survivors of Military Sexual Trauma (MST).
CEO of Otsego Rural Electric Cooperative and OEConnect Testifies in House Agriculture Committee Rural Broadband Hearing
WASHINGTON – Today, Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit (CEEC) Antonio Delgado (NY-19) introduced Tim Johnson, CEO, Otsego Rural Electric Cooperative and OEConnect, to the House Committee on Agriculture. Mr.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) successfully amended H.R. 1309, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, bipartisan legislation to address workplace violence in health care and social services sectors.