Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
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“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”
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“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
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“We had the highest number of (military) sexual assaults ever reported in the last year” and “we had the lowest conviction rate and the lowest…
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“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”
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"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an…
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A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all."
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"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."
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"Remember after the shooting in Las Vegas, (President Donald Trump) said, ‘Yeah, yeah, we’re going to ban the bump stocks.’ Did he ban the bump…
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"I actually in 2005 ran on Medicare for all."
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For Cabinet posts, "I have the best voting record against Trump nominees of anyone else running for president"