Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, issued the following statement after the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) released millions of dollars that it owed to the Gateway...
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced legislation to guarantee paid sick leave for workers across the country. The bill, cosponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and 28 Senate Democratic colleagues, would ensure workers can take time off to care for...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), alongside Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), reintroduced the Rural Innovation for a Stronger Economy (RISE) Reauthorization Act, legislation that would reauthorize and improve the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) RISE...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee, released the following statement after the Trump administration disbursed an initial $30 million tranche of federal funding Friday evening and...
U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced the 21st Century WIC Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at modernizing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) while strengthening safeguards to...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) released the following statement regarding Republicans’ refusal to negotiate much-needed reforms and fund the Department of Homeland Security: “While the president is gutting health care for working New Yorkers, he's...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) issued the following statement after the Trump administration repealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding related to emissions. The endangerment finding is the scientific determination that...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement after the White House fired newly appointed interim U.S. Attorney for New York’s Northern District, Donald T. Kinsella: “This is the latest example of the chaos of the Trump administration failing...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Lake Champlain Basin Program Enhancements Act, a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would renew funding for the Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) for five years at $35 million. The legislation supports...
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the Financial Disclosure Modernization Act to increase transparency around government officials’ financial disclosures. This commonsense legislation would update and expand the monetary values that elected and...