Kirsten Gillibrand

Your commitment to addressing rural poverty, particularly the persistent poverty that robs too many children in rural areas of their future, has really been important and remarkable.

I do think the program needs to be adjusted because it has not worked well.

So they did not get as much money as they would have thought, and so they really found the program to be unhelpful.

I just want to associate myself with the questions that were asked by Senator Bennet as well as Senator Leahy.

Hillary believes women deserve equal pay for equal work. The choice in this election could not be clearer.

Donald Trump actually stood on a debate stage and said that wages are too high. Hillary knows that in the richest country in the world, it is unacceptable that a mom with two kids working full-time still lives in poverty.

We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave. Many women can't even get a paid day off to give birth. Most parents work outside the home, yet child care can cost as much as college tuition…

No one outside of our military who are trained to use these weapons needs to have access to a weapon that can fire hundreds of bullets in a minute, hundreds of bullets in a minute.

They basically said, it is not our concern; we don't have a concern; industry standard is we have redundancy.

The NRC should be taking this issue much more seriously.

I just want to thank Senator Booker and the other sponsors for taking one of my concerns into account by adding a comment period so that communities could have a chance to be heard on the placement of plants.

My amendment addresses a very specific issue to this nuclear plant we have in New York State called Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.

I really think it is important.

Therefore, on behalf of our 17 million constituents who live within range of the plant, I offer this amendment to force the NRC to finish the root cause analysis before allowing Unit 2 reactor to restart.

I feel they are not doing their jobs. They are avoiding authority, which is absurd.

All my amendment does it ask the NRC to look at it.

What we saw after Superstorm Sandy is a warning.

I am sure you are aware of the problems that Long Island and New York City face in terms of managing their solid waste and preventing contamination into our waterways.

We had this issue with microbeads, and we were successfully able in Congress to ban them because it had so many horrible effects for killing fish in a lot of our rivers and water bodies.

Many of my constituents on Long Island and I support the idea of turning it into a wildlife refuge in order to conserve this piece of land for future generations.

What do you think is the line that the Department and military should draw when it comes to lobbying for or against legislation?

I'm obviously very troubled by these allegations that the Department, and specifically the military, provided misleading information to Congress.

One of the issues that some of us work on is rescheduling marijuana to become a Schedule 2 drug so more research can be done and so patients that have been prescribed the medication can get access to it more regularly.

Although the prevalence for military sexual trauma is higher among women, given the significantly larger portion of men in the Armed Forces, there are similar numbers of men and women who have survived sexual trauma.

Last December, there was a study completed by the VA researchers that was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on the link between military sexual trauma and death by suicide.