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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
stated on February 3, 2024 in 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.”

By Conor Amendola • February 20, 2024
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 20, 2023 in a speech at John Jay College of Criminal Justice:

“Many law enforcement agencies didn’t submit their (hate crime) data to the FBI.”

By Cameron Carr • April 25, 2023
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 23, 2021 in 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.”

By Landon Allison • March 25, 2021
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 21, 2020 in a tweet:

“Immigrants make up a majority of essential workers in places like New York City.”

By Jaren Holmes • May 7, 2020
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 in 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.’"

By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on May 31, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said, "Social Security must (be) expanded to illegal immigration, it’s their right."

By Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2019
America First
stated on March 1, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "have both said they would tear down the wall if elected president."

By Miriam Valverde • March 7, 2019
Chele Farley
stated on April 23, 2018 in 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!"

By Dan Clark • May 4, 2018
Kellyanne Conway
stated on February 11, 2018 in 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."

By Dan Clark • February 16, 2018
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
stated on August 3, 2017 in an email blast to supporters:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "no longer supports the fight to combat the international delegitimization of Israel."

By Dan Clark • September 8, 2017

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