Kirsten Gillibrand
American lawyer and politician
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| 2025 | Completed her service on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry after 16 years of continuous membership. |
| 2024 | Re-elected to the Senate. |
| 2024 | Kirsten Gillibrand introduced a new bill to address traumatic brain injuries in military veterans and service members. |
| 2024 | Kirsten Gillibrand is seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate, running against Republican nominee Mike Sapraicone, an ex-NYPD detective and businessman. |
| 2024 | Gillibrand was reelected to a full term in the United States Senate. |
| July 2023 | Introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Josh Hawley to ban stock ownership for members of Congress and senior executive branch members. |
| 2021 | Ended her service on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
| 2020 | The Gillibrands sold their house in Brunswick, and Kirsten stated that her family was looking for a house in the North Country. |
| 2019 | Fired a male staffer after a female former aide's sexual harassment complaint was brought to light through a Politico inquiry. |
| 2019 | Gillibrand was criticized by a former female aide for retaining a male staffer despite the aide's sexual harassment complaint against him. |
| August 28 2019 | After failing to qualify for the third debate, Gillibrand withdrew from the presidential race. |
| July 31 2019 | Gillibrand participated in the second Democratic presidential debate, again on the second night of the event. |
| June 27 2019 | Kirsten Gillibrand participated in the first Democratic presidential debate, taking part in the second night of the event. |
| March 17 2019 | Gillibrand officially announced her candidacy for president via a Twitter post, pledging not to accept campaign donations from political action committees. |
| March 17 2019 | Gillibrand officially announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. |
| January 15 2019 | Kirsten Gillibrand announced the formation of an exploratory committee to consider running for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election, stating 'I am going to run' during her appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. |
| 2018 | Supported rejecting corporate PAC funds and focused on online fundraising, with 97% of campaign donations in 2018 being $100 or less. |
| 2018 | Re-elected to the Senate. |
| 2018 | Kirsten Gillibrand called ICE a 'deportation force' and became the first sitting senator to support abolishing ICE. |
| 2018 | Gillibrand was designated as part of the 'Hell-No Caucus' by Politico for her voting record against Trump's administration nominees. |
| 2018 | Gillibrand was reelected to another full term in the United States Senate. |
| July 2018 | The New York Times noted that Gillibrand was infusing her portfolio with economic populism similar to Bernie Sanders’s campaign. |
| May 2018 | City & State reported that Gillibrand had moved sharply leftward on economic issues. |
| February 2018 | In a 60 Minutes profile, Gillibrand expressed that she felt 'embarrassed and ashamed' about her past positions on immigration and guns from her tenure in the House. |
| 2017 | Called for Senator Al Franken to resign, being the first in her caucus to do so as part of her 'zero tolerance' doctrine regarding sexual misconduct accusations. |
| 2017 | Gillibrand co-sponsored a Medicare-for-all bill introduced by Bernie Sanders. |
| November 2017 | Amid the #MeToo movement, Gillibrand became the first high-profile Democrat to say that Bill Clinton should have resigned. |
| July 2017 | Gillibrand announced her opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act in its current form, stating that it should only apply to companies and not individuals. |
| May 2017 | Gillibrand co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S.270). |
| 2016 | Kirsten Gillibrand was a supporter of Medicare-for-all since her first House run. |
| 2015 | Gillibrand invited campus activist Emma Sulkowicz to attend the State of the Union Address to promote the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which she co-sponsored. |
| 2014 | Kirsten Gillibrand published her first book, Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World, which gained media attention for its discussion of sexism in the Senate and speculation about her future presidential ambitions. The book debuted at number 8 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover nonfiction. |
| 2014 | Gillibrand was included in the annual Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. |
| December 2014 | Gillibrand introduced the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, aiming to provide paid family leave. |
| 2013 | Gillibrand proposed legislation to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command, which was co-sponsored by Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. |
| December 2013 | Introduced the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, which would have provided paid family leave. |
| 2012 | Kirsten Gillibrand was inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society, as an honoris causa initiate at SUNY Plattsburgh. |
| 2012 | Gillibrand authored a portion of the STOCK Act, which placed limitations on insider trading by members of Congress, leading to its passage in April 2012. |
| 2012 | Gillibrand's special election victory earlier in 2012 allowed her to serve the remainder of Hillary Clinton's second term, which concluded in January 2013. |
| November 2012 | Kirsten Gillibrand won a full six-year term in the U.S. Senate in the general election, defeating Wendy E. Long with 72.2% of the vote. This victory marked the largest victory margin for a statewide candidate in New York history, as she carried all counties except for two in western New York. |
| 2011 | Concluded her term on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. |
| 2011 | The Gillibrands sold their house in Hudson and purchased a home in Brunswick to be closer to Gillibrand's family in Albany. |
| March 2011 | Gillibrand co-sponsored the PROTECT IP Act, which aimed to restrict access to websites infringing copyrights, but later announced she would not support the bill in its current form due to public criticism. |
| January 2011 | Secured the passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, reopening the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and establishing the World Trade Center Health Program. |
| 2010 | During the lame duck session of the 111th Congress, Gillibrand achieved significant legislative victories with the passage of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act and the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. |
| 2010 | Gillibrand won a special election to retain her Senate seat. |
| November 2010 | Kirsten Gillibrand won the general election against former Republican congressman Joseph DioGuardi with a vote margin of 63% to 35%. |
| September 14 2010 | Kirsten Gillibrand won the Democratic primary election, receiving 76% of the vote against her opponent Gail Goode. |
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