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Gillibrand, Colleagues Urge Education Department To Expand Debt Relief For Student Loan Borrowers

July 14, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined nearly two dozen of her Senate colleagues in urging Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to expand student debt relief in the Department’s upcoming higher education rulemaking.

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Gillibrand, Cassidy Push To Fund Centers Of Excellence To Fortify Emergency Response Preparedness, Build Resiliency Against Future Pandemics

July 1, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) are pushing for funding to establish a COVID-19 and Pandemic Response Centers of Excellence Program to designate academic medical centers as research and communication hubs that will improve the United States’ ability to swiftly respond to emerging public health threats and to continue battling COVID-19.

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Gillibrand: As Landmark Veterans Toxic Exposure Bill Heads To House Vote, Senate Must Act Swiftly To Protect Toxic-Exposed Vets

June 30, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today applauded the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs vote to send the Honoring Our PACT Act to a full floor vote.

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Gillibrand, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation To Stop Polluters From Contaminating Waterways With Toxic Levels Of PFAS

June 1, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representatives Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Antonio Delgado (D-NY) reintroduced their bicameral Clean Water Standards for PFAS Act, which would regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals under the Clean Water Act to finally stop manufacturers and other polluters from contaminating our nation’s waterways with toxic levels of PFAS.

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Gillibrand Reintroduces Safe School Meals For Kids Act

May 28, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, reintroduced the Safe School Meals for Kids Act to eliminate harmful pesticides from produce served in kids’ school meals.

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Gillibrand Announces Senate Passage Of Amendment Calling For Transparent, Thorough Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins

May 27, 2021 Contributor

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan amendment offered by U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Roger Marshall M.D. (R-KS) that calls for transparency into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) potentially flawed report on the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak, which largely dismissed the possibility that the virus had accidentally escaped from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.

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Gillibrand Releases Statement On DOD Report Showing Reports Of Sexual Assault Remain At Record Highs, Conviction Rates Continue To Decrease

May 14, 2021 Contributor

Yesterday, the Department of Defense released its FY20 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, and the data demonstrates that reports of sexual assault in the military remain at record highs, that the number of cases that went to trial after substantiation of allegations of sexual assault decreased, and conviction rates dropped significantly.

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Schumer, Gillibrand Re-Up Senate Plan To Set Federal Limousine Safety Regulations, Close Safety Loopholes To Get Dangerous Limos Off The Road

May 6, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will re-introduce three pieces of legislation to increase the safety of stretch limousines for all of the Americans and New Yorkers who ride in them: the Safety, Accountability, and Federal Enforcement of Limos Act (SAFE Limos Act), the Take Unsafe Limos Off the Road Act, and the End the Limo Loophole Act.

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Gillibrand Applauds Inclusion Of National Paid Leave, Critical Investment Of Care Infrastructure In American Families Plan

April 28, 2021 Contributor

Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement touting the inclusion of national paid leave and care infrastructure investment in President Biden’s American Families Plan.

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Gillibrand Joins Colleagues To Reintroduce Bicameral Legislation To Establish National Paid Sick Day Policy

April 27, 2021 Contributor

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined her colleagues, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to reintroduce bicameral legislation to establish a long-overdue national paid sick day policy.

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