Press Releases
Ahead Of Reconciliation Negotiations, Gillibrand Introduces Legislation To Close Gap In 9-11 Health Funding; Commits To Pushing Inclusion In Reconciliation
9-11 Health Program Facing a Projected Funding Shortfall in 2025; Gillibrand Pushes For Urgent Congressional Action to Support the Over 110,000 9-11 Survivors and Responders Who Will Lose Health Benefits If Program Fails
Gillibrand Statement On The Passing Of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Addressing the passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement: “The world and the labor movement have lost a giant. Richard Trumka’s life took him from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the...
Gillibrand Calls On The Department Of The Treasury To Implement Bold Economic Policies To Combat The Climate Crisis
In A Letter to the Treasury Department’s First Climate Counselor, Gillibrand Calls For Bold Action And Financial Leverage To Tackle Climate Change
ICYMI: At The Urging Of Senator Gillibrand, Jon Stewart, And Veterans Advocates, The Department Of Veterans Affairs Announces Expanded Benefits For Disability Claims For Conditions Related To Certain Toxic Exposures
Jon Stewart On Fox News Addressing the VA’s Announcement: “This is the cost of war”
In Wake Of Increased Politicization, Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Establish A Code Of Ethics For The Supreme Court Of The United States
Supreme Court Justices Are the Only Federal Judges in the United States Exempt from the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct
Schumer, Gillibrand, Bowman, And Jones Announce Over $8.1 Million In Federal Funds For The Westchester County Airport
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman, and U.S. Representative Mondaire Jones today announced $8,161,540 in federal funding for the Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York. The...
With The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Underway, Gillibrand Announces Equal Pay Bill For U.S. National Teams
Despite Success on the Field, the U.S. Soccer Federation Pays Women Team Members Just 38 Cents for Every Dollar Paid to Their Male Counterparts; In 2020, Women Earned 82 Cents for Every Dollar Their Male Counterparts Earned
Gillibrand Calls For Senate Appropriations Committee To Support Israel’s Emergency Request For Iron Dome Assistance
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) urging them to support Israel’s recent emergency request of $1...
Gillibrand Successfully Pushes For Emergency Funding To Protect Afghan Allies Who Supported U.S. Forces
Gillibrand’s Continued Drive to Protect Afghan Allies Results in $1.125 Billion in Funding and Assistance
Gillibrand, Colleagues Introduce National Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights Alongside National Domestic Workers Alliance
Today, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), introduced the National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. If enacted, the legislation would extend common workplace rights to the 2.2 million...