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2:55 Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was in Colonie Monday to announce he is prioritizing restaurants in a new COVID-19 relief bill. The New York Democrat was at TORO Cantina, a Mexican restaurant forced by the pandemic to close its doors six hours into last March’s grand opening, the same day the state s shutdown went into effect. Schumer says the bi-partisan Restaurants Act, included in the next COVID-relief bill, would pump $25 billion dollars into eateries across the country. Restaurant employment in the Capital Region has been down 50 percent in the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, the Glens Falls metro area had the nation s 15th highest density of restaurants. So that shows you how important it is. And some restaurants have about 80 percent of their revenues down. How do they survive? How do they pay the rent? How do they pay the insurance? How do they pay the mortgage? And restaurants want to keep their employees. A restaurant is an organic place. The chef, the

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