health
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06.21.11
Bipartisan Group Of Senators Calls On Veterans Affairs To Do More To Prevent Veteran Suicides
A bipartisan group of six Senators called on Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to do more to stem the "unacceptable" level of suicides among veterans currently estimated to be 18 per day. The call came in a letter sent to the Administration...Read More
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06.14.11
Gillibrand Continues To Fight For Healthier School Meals
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) urged the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee to protect new rules to make school meals healthier under the Child Nutrition bill-the first major nutritional overhaul in 15 years. The House...Read More
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06.07.11
As Unknown E. Coli Strain Claims Lives Overseas, Gillibrand Fights To Protect Funding For Historic New Food Safety Laws From GOP Attacks - Introduces Meat Safety Legislation To Regulate Unchecked, Deadly E. Coli Strains In Meat Supply
As a previously unknown strain of E. coli is claiming lives in Europe, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is fighting to protect funding for the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, the first major update to America's food safety laws in...Read More
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06.06.11
Slaughter, Gillibrand Introduce Legislation To Give Women In Uniform Same Reproductive Rights As Civilians
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28) and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today announced that they have introduced legislation that would provide America's women in uniform with the same rights to reproductive choice as most other employees of the...Read More
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05.05.11
Gillibrand Statement on Senate Republicans' Attack on Women's Health
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement in response to the introduction of legislation by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and 29 of their Republican colleagues attacking women's health by going beyo...Read More
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04.18.11
During Autism Awareness Month, Gillibrand Joins Senate Colleagues to Introduce Bill to Establish a National Autism Strategy
During a month set aside to highlight the growing need for concern and awareness about autism, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Casey (D-PA), Bob Menendez (D-NM), and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) in introducing legi...Read More
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04.13.11
Gillibrand, Senate Democratic Women Call on Republicans to End Continued Assault on Women’s Health
Today, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, together with Senate Democratic women, urged their Republican colleagues to vote against the upcoming resolutions that would eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and roll back health care reform, and to e...Read More
