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Kirsten Gillibrand

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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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 3, 2024 a newsletter for constituents
“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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By Conor Amendola, Brooke Johnpier • February 20, 2024
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”
True
By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 an interview with WNYC
“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 prosecution rate.”
Mostly True
By Landon Allison, Cassidey Kavathas • March 25, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 21, 2020 a tweet
“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”
Mostly True
By John Pullano • May 7, 2020
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate
"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 op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 9, 2019 a campaign event
A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all." 
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 26, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 10, 2019 an interview
"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 21, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 2, 2019 a Fox News town hall
"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 stocks? No."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on May 10, 2019 a campaign stop
"I actually in 2005 ran on Medicare for all."
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 22, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 18, 2019 a town hall
For Cabinet posts, "I have the best voting record against Trump nominees of anyone else running for president"  
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 29, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 25, 2019 in a news conference
"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 9, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 7, 2019 a tweet
"A black woman in New York City is 12 times more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman."
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on November 12, 2018 a television interview
"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 16, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 a tweet
"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."
True
By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on December 15, 2017 Buffalo
"The truth is this tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • December 22, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on May 16, 2017 a speech at a conference
A national paid leave program "would potentially put into the economy $21 billion dollars annually."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • June 15, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh
The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 16, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
"We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on June 9, 2013 an interview on Face the Nation
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's issue. More than half of the victims are men."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • June 11, 2013
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 23, 2013 an interview with MSNBC
"One in five" women in the military "are receiving unwanted sexual contact," as are "3.3 percent of men."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2013
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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2019 a Facebook post
Says presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said, "Social Security must (be) expanded to illegal immigration, it’s their right."
False
By Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2019
America First
America First
stated on March 1, 2019 a tweet
Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 7, 2019
Chele Farley
Chele Farley
stated on April 23, 2018 an interview on Capital Tonight
"Kirsten Gillibrand has put forward 331 bills since she's been in Congress. Do you know how many of them have been passed into law? Zero!"
Half-True
By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 11, 2018 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
"I don’t need a lecture from Kirsten Gillibrand or anybody else who protected and defended and harbored a sitting president who had sexual relations in the Oval Office and was impeached for lying."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • February 16, 2018
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
stated on August 3, 2017 an email blast to supporters
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "no longer supports the fight to combat the international delegitimization of Israel."
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By Dan Clark • September 8, 2017
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