Kirsten Gillibrand

There are few, if any issues, more important than the health of our children and the air they breathe every day.

I applaud the EPA for heeding the science and proposing to strengthen the ozone standard to be more protective of public health.

Having ground troops go into Syria is what ISIL wants.

These veterans deserve equal treatment with other veterans who set 'boots on the ground' during the Vietnam War.

Thank you for introducing the 'Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act'.

Agent Orange was dangerous. It was toxic. It was poisonous. It filled the air and poisoned the water and severely damaged the health of the people who were exposed to it.

Today's hearing on S. 681, the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015, is a very important piece of legislation that I have talked to veterans over the last 10 years about.

If one in three kids are obese in this country, what are we doing?

If we are cutting the standards for school meals, I think the kids get the biggest hit.

We should not cut the standards.

I can't support a bill that prohibits States from acting on their own to protect children from chemicals.

I think it is very important for us to recognize that today in a vote on this amendment.

I appreciate the tireless work of our colleagues on this bill to craft a bill that is worthy of Frank Lautenberg's legacy and name.

The Chemical Safety Board is tasked with the important role of investigating industrial chemical incidents.

I hope the change in leadership will quickly reverse the downward trajectory of the CSB.

Can you talk about the benefits of this program? And is SOCOM taking into full account the range of benefits that would come from female participation in Special Ops in its analysis of combat integration?

Because I want to be able to prioritize that in budget debates and also when we write the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that we need more resources in this particular area.

Every leader we talked to, both U.S. and the foreign leaders, they did--very grateful for the work the United States was doing.

Counterterrorism can only be addressed partly through military action, that, in fact, to be effective, you had to combine that with work by the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a more holistic strategy…

I would like a thoughtful analysis about what you would do in the worst case scenario given Fukushima.

I want a fuller discussion of an evacuation plan if you have the perfect storm, if you have a nuclear incident.

I would like a unique approach to absolutely be planned for and analyzed to know what the limitations are and to think it through.

The safety of our nuclear power sector is of great importance to me and New Yorkers.

It's key to the partnership there.

I thought their cyber training was very impressive when I was last there.