Press Releases
After Congressional Republicans Gut SNAP Benefits For Low-Income Families In The House Farm Bill, Gillibrand Introduces SNAP For Kids Act As An Amendment To Senate Farm Bill To Expand Food Assistance For Vulnerable Children
Gillibrand’s Provision Would Help Ensure Vulnerable Children Have Enough Food to Make It Through the End of Each Month Before Their Parents’ Next Paycheck Comes
Senator Gillibrand And Bipartisan Group Of Senators Announce Passage Of Amendment Requiring VA To Release Nursing Home Ratings Data
Amendment Would Require Transparency After Troubling Reports of Poorly Performing VA Nursing Homes Nationwide
After Gillibrand, Schumer Called Out Administration Officials For Attempting To Cover Up Department Of Health And Human Services Study On Dangerous Effects of PFAS Chemicals, Report Has Finally Been Releases To The Public
Top EPA and Other Administration Officials Had Previously Attempted To Keep Secret a Study Showing That PFAS Pose a Danger to Human Health at Exposure Levels that are Seven to Ten Times Lower than What EPA Had Told the Public; Gillibrand, Schumer Led the Call on EPA Administrator to Release Department of Health and Human Services Study to the Public
As Rural Communities Throughout New York State Face Declines In Businesses And Jobs, Gillibrand Includes Bipartisan Amendment In The Senate Farm Bill That Invests In New Rural Businesses And Creates Rural Jobs
Nearly 60 Percent of Rural Communities Throughout New York State Have Experienced Declining Number of Businesses; Gillibrand’s Proposal, Which Has Bipartisan Support in the Senate, Would Help Attract Investment to Upstate New York and Create a Federal Grant Program to Help Entrepreneurs Start and Grow Their Businesses and Promote Job Growth
With Historically Low Milk Prices Continuing To Hurt Dairy Farmers Across New York, Gillibrand Proposes Farm Bill Amendment For Immediate Emergency Funding To Support Dairy Farms
Gillibrand: This is a Crisis for our Rural Upstate New York Communities, and USDA Needs to Extend the Same Emergency Relief to Dairy Farmers That Has Been Given to Other Struggling Agricultural Industries
Gillibrand Proposes Amendment To Ban Public Schools From Serving Fruits And Vegetables Sprayed With Dangerous Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
Toxic Chemical Chlorpyrifos was Banned from Household Use Nearly 20 Years Ago, But is Still Widely Used as a Pesticide on Fruits and Vegetables; Exposure to Low Levels of Chlorpyrifos Early in Life Can Lead to Increased Risk of Learning Disabilities, Including Reductions in IQ, Developmental Delay, and Behavioral Problems Such as ADHD
As Senate Debates Farm Bill, Gillibrand Speaks On Senate Floor To Urge Colleagues To Support Struggling Dairy Producers And Protect And Expand SNAP Benefits For Millions Of Low-Income Children
**WATCH Senator Gillibrand’s Speech on the Senate Floor HERE** Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today took to the Senate floor to lay out two of her most important priorities for this...
As Trump-Era Drug Policies Continue To Target Communities Of Color For Low-Level Marijuana Possession, Senator Gillibrand And Assemblymember Peoples-Stokes Push Legislation To Legalize Marijuana
In Buffalo, Black and Latino Communities Make Up 50 Percent of the Population, Yet Make Up 86 Percent of the Arrests for Marijuana Possession, Despite National Studies that Show Nearly Equal Rates of Marijuana Use; Public Support for Marijuana Legalization is at an All-Time High, With Over 60 Percent of Americans Supporting Legalization
After Major Push By Schumer And Gillibrand, Just-Passed Senate Defense Bill Approves $14 Million In Federal Funding For New Training Center For NFARS; Senators Say Training Center Will Improve Mission Readiness
Schumer And Gillibrand Today Announced That The Newly Passed NDAA Authorizes $14 Million In Federal Funding For Key Infrastructure Upgrades At NFARS, Including The Construction Of A New Training Center; Senators Say Upgrades Are Vital To NFARS’ Mission Readiness And Vow To See Funding Through The Appropriations Process; Senators: New Training Center Will Enhance The Capabilities Of The Units Serving At NFARS
As New Yorkers Continue To Suffer Due To PFAS Contamination, Schumer, Gillibrand Announce That After Their Push, $20 Million To Study The Health Effects Of PFAS Water Contamination Passes Senate
The Recently-Passed Senate Defense Bill Provides $20 Million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to Conduct a Public Health Assessment for Sites Affected by PFAS Contamination; Schumer, Gillibrand Fought to Include this Funding in the Senate Defense Bill Following Multi-Year Effort to Secure this CDC-Led Study