The COVID pandemic crushed small businesses. I worked with my collegues in Congress to extend the PPP deadline to expand access for our local busineses and ensured farmers and self-employed businesses were included.

I proudly voted to help pass the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, which is now law. This legislation helps provide children with access to lifesaving treatment.

Elise successfully led the effort to get Governor Cuomo to backtrack on his dangerous and reckless executive order to have the National Guard confiscate North Country ventilators and send them downstate.

Elise rewrote and co-led the bipartisan Older Americans Act, to improve the delivery of important services, like Meals on Wheels, to our seniors so they can stay in our communities. This law also includes Elise’s provisions to improve family caregiver services and ensure the protection of seniors with early onset Alzheimers.

Elise cosponsored important legislation that will bring security to our pharmaceutical supply chain and bring our pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing home from China and back to the U.S. 

Elise partnered with state and local officials to lead the effort urging our local businesses and manufacturers to donate PPE to our county health departments. Many of them have gone above and beyond to help our communities and get these important resources to our county health departments.