U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is joining a push to fund the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) program. HUD-VASH is a rental assistance program for chronically homeless veterans. It also offers case...
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for increased funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grants to States program, the only federal program that provides federal funding exclusively for libraries across the country. LSTA funding provides...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand led a bipartisan push calling for $350 million in federal funding for USDA’s Rural Broadband Access Grant, Loan and Loan Guarantee Program to be included in the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations bill. The rural broadband...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) led a group of 19 senators to call for robust federal funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) lead-based paint abatement, inspection, and enforcement programs. The senators noted that despite a decline in...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a video press conference to announce her bipartisan legislation to expedite provisional FDA approval of drugs intended to treat ALS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other life-threatening diseases. The standard FDA approval...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand chaired a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena. Watch her opening statement here, and read her remarks as prepared for delivery below: The hearing will come to order. I...
Federal Funding To Support Economic Growth In Low-Income Communities; Recent Survey Shows It Costs Black Business Owners Approximately $5,000 More To Start A Business Than Their Non-Black Peers HARLEM, N.Y. —Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a press...
24% of Service Members Experience Food Insecurity, Posing a Threat To Military Readiness and National Security Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, chair of the Senate Armed Services Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee and member of the Senate...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) announced the introduction of the bipartisan Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance Fairness Act....
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Grace Meng call on the Department of Justice to provide an overview of National Incident-Based Reporting System compliance by law enforcement agencies throughout the nation U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S....