Kirsten Gillibrand

Farmers are the backbone of New York’s economy, but as climate change worsens, extreme weather events are becoming more common and are wreaking havoc on growers across the state.

Veterans put their lives on the line to defend our nation, and we have both a promise and responsibility to ensure their care.

It’s outrageous that federal employees convicted of sex crimes are eligible to collect their taxpayer-funded pension.

Caregiving for an aging parent, relative with a disability, or ailing loved one is a full-time job.

Every student deserves the chance to succeed both inside and outside the classroom.

For too long, nondisclosure agreements have been used to silence survivors of child sexual abuse and shield perpetrators from accountability.

The Schenectady VA provides care to more than 1,500 veterans in the Capital Region who have served our country, and the decision to close this facility will have devastating consequences.

This project will improve safety and help modernize the airport so that it remains a state-of-the-art, safe facility that everyone who travels through our state deserves.

I rise to support our legislation, which I just spoke on, about Fort Ontario. I want to thank Senator Hawley for his leadership and making sure we had a bipartisan effort to get this done. With his collaboration, we have literally…

I think the Republican majority is at risk because of a series of recruitment failures, damaging primaries and their very toxic plan that slashes Medicaid and spikes costs.

I'm optimistic this bill will be passed swiftly in the Senate.

As a leader of a city as diverse as New York City with 8 million people, as the largest Jewish population in the country, he should denounce it. And that’s it. Period.

We have a lot of work to do, and we’re going to work on a bipartisan basis over the next month.

If you talk to our LGBT community, you talk to our Black community, you talk to our Hispanic community, there are words and there are imagery and there are things that are said that they will hear and feel it as a dagger to their throat.

When you use a word like intifada, to many Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are permissive for violence against Jews.

It doesn’t matter what meaning you have in your brain, it is now how the word is received.

References to global jihad

I am confident my party would have formidable candidates in both Maine and North Carolina.

I was alarmed by past positions, specifically references to global jihad.

The left-wing candidate, who is Muslim, is a threat to public safety

This is a very serious issue, because people that glorify the slaughter of Jews create fear in our communities.

The caller is exactly the New York constituents that I’ve spoken to that are alarmed. They are alarmed by past public statements.

This is something I care deeply about, and so I will be an advocate on these issues. These are things that I think are important to New Yorkers.

It is a serious word. It is a word that has deep meaning. It has been used for wars across time and violence and destruction and slaughter and murder against the Jews.

It doesn’t matter what meaning you have in your brain, it is not how the word is received. And when you use a word like ‘intifada,’ to many Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are permissive for violence against Jews.