Press Releases
After Major Push By Schumer and Gillibrand, Just-Passed Senate Defense Bill Approves $14.2 Million Federal Funding To Enhance Perimeter Security At Rome Lab
The Air Force Research Laboratory In Rome, New York Is Nation’s Premier Research Organizations For Command, Control, Communications, Cyber and Intelligence Technologies; Schumer and Gillibrand Today Announced That The Newly-Passed NDAA Authorizes $14.2 Million In Federal Funding For Security Enhancements At The Lab; Senators Say They Will Work Tirelessly Through The Appropriations Process To Ensure That The Lab’s Anti-Terrorism Perimeter Security And Entry Control Point Is Fully Funded By The U
Following Reports That Defense Department Is Sending Jags To Southern Border To Prosecute Immigration Cases, Senators Gillibrand, Ernst, Leahy Demand Answers From Secretary Mattis, Urge Him To Immediately Reverse This Inappropriate Policy
Military Lawyers Are Not Trained In Immigration Law; DoD Decision Would Exacerbate Shortage of Military Justice-Trained JAGs; Senators: Pulling 21 Trial Counsel From Military Courtrooms To Prosecute Immigration Cases Is An Inappropriate Misapplication Of Military Personnel
Following New AP Report That Babies And Toddlers Are Being Held In “Tender Age” Detention Camps At Southern Border, Gillibrand Takes To Senate Floor To Urge End To Government’s Immoral Family Separation Policy, Record Details Of These Detention Camps In Official Senate Record
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Confirms Over 2,000 Children Have Been Separated from Their Parents as Families Enter the United States; Gillibrand: I Want the Details of This Horror Recorded and Documented in the Official Senate Record, So When Americans Years from Now Look Back At Us, They Will See How Wrong We Were
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce University At Albany Receives Prestigious Academic Excellence In Cyber Defense Education Designation
Designation is Awarded to Universities that Offer Rigorous Bachelor’s and Graduate Degree Programs that Prepare Students for the Nation’s Cyber Defense Needs
Following Her Successful Push, Gillibrand Announces That Her Bipartisan Legislation To Help Create New Manufacturing Jobs And Revive Local Economies Across New York State Just Passed The Senate
Gillibrand’s Bipartisan Legislation Would Create New Program to Designate Manufacturing Hubs that Create Jobs, Invest In Workers, and Grow Local Economies Across New York State and the Country
As DHS Continues To Tear Children Away From Their Parents At The Border, Gillibrand Speaks On Senate Floor, Calls On Trump Administration To End Cruel Family Separation Policy
Nearly 12,000 Minors Now Being Held by DHS; Cruel, Inhumane Stories Include Mother Whose Infant Was Ripped from Her Arms While She Was Breastfeeding; Gillibrand: If This Isn’t Government Overreach, Then What Is? This Is the Kind of Thing We Read About in a History Book and Shake Our Heads at in Disgust
Senators Gillibrand And Wicker Announce Passage Of Bipartisan Resolution Designating “Juneteenth Independence Day”
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) today announced the passage of their resolution designating June 19, 2018, as “Juneteenth Independence Day,” in recognition of June 19, 1865, the day slavery legally...
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce $100,000 In Federal Funding For Drug Prevention And Treatment Programs In The North Country To Address The Scourge Of Opioids
Funding Will Help North Country Drug Initiatives Address Opioid-Related Deaths Through Coordinated Prevention and Treatment Efforts
Gillibrand Calls On Trump Administration To Reject Atlantic Seismic Testing Permits In The Atlantic Ocean To Protect Environment, Marine Ecosystems and Mammals
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to Dr. Walter Cruickshank, Acting Director of the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Chris Oliver, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries at the National Oceanic and...
Following Her Push, Gillibrand Successfully Adds Reauthorization And Expansion Of The Northern Border Regional Commission To Senate Farm Bill
Gillibrand Pushed in Senate Agriculture Committee for Amendment that Would Reauthorize the NBRC for an Additional Five Years and Improve Support for Business Retention and Expansion, Increase Access to High-Speed Internet, Invest in Critical Infrastructure Development, and Promote Job Creation; NBRC Has Invested Over $57 Million Throughout the North Country and Central New York for Economic Development Projects