Kirsten Gillibrand

Well, thank you very much.

Thank you so much, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this hearing.

Food insecurity can impair nutrition, increasing the likelihood of chronic health conditions among older adults.

Americans should not have to worry about where their next meal will come from.

I recently sent a bicameral, bipartisan letter... requesting that the final Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill include $1.93 billion in funding for older Americans.

South Carolina is a leader in telehealth innovation.

In 2021, I introduced the Telehealth Modernization Act with Senator Schatz and a bipartisan group including Senators Collins and Warnock.

During today's hearing, we have heard and learned about many programs and services aimed at helping families that are not set up to accommodate grandfamilies or kinship families.

As you know, because of COVID we have seen so much more mental health needs grow exponentially.

Elder abuse has a physical, mental, and financial impact on older adults.

We must address the stigma surrounding mental health issues.

There is so much that needs to be done here, but funding for elder abuse and justice programs... is a first step.

We need to make sure that every single voter understands that the Republican Party and Mitch McConnell does not believe that their daughters, that their mothers., that their sisters have rights to make fundamental life and death decisions…

I hope every human being in this country understands that when you take away a woman's right to make her decisions about her health and well-being, she is no longer a full citizen. She no longer has freedom. She no longer has bodily…

I would like to speak to America’s men for one minute. Imagine you do not have authority over your own body for ten months. Imagine if that decision-making would not be taken away even if you would die in childbirth. If even if you…

It is an outrage that we have five justices on the Supreme Court who lied, lied in their confirmation hearings in order to be confirmed.

I ask to be recognized notwithstanding the order that no business be conducted during today's pro forma session. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Thank you very much, and thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this important hearing.

I have introduced legislation, the Housing Temperature Safety Act, which would require the installation of heat sensors in federally subsidized housing.

Most older adults prefer to remain in their homes and communities as they age, yet many older adults face significant challenges to safety and independence because of modifiable risk factors in their homes.

Thank you, and just one question for Mr. Kingsmore.

That is why I am a champion of Senator Bob Casey's Better Care Better Jobs Act and its commitment to a massive care infrastructure investment as well as my proposal for a national paid leave program.

I secured $3 billion in the American Rescue Plan to establish the Health Force.

Our national investment in rural areas and small towns has not always matched their contribution.

The good news is, Chris, that Europe has only woken up, our NATO allies are ready to stand tall and to stand to defend any other NATO ally.