Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat for U.S. Senate
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Feb02
Senate Approves Ban on Insider Trading by Congress
The Senate passed a sweeping new ethics bill on Thursday that would ban insider trading by members of Congress and require prompt disclosure of stock transactions by lawmakers and by thousands of officials in the executive branch of government.
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Feb02
Equal Representation, A Better America
2012 marks a momentous year for women in politics. This year, we have the opportunity to rise above the GOP's attempts to set women's rights back and turn 2012 into Women's Historic Year.
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Feb02
Senators Urge Komen Foundation to Reverse ‘Troubling’ Planned Parenthood Funding Cut
Twenty-six Democratic senators today sent a letter to Nancy Brinker, the founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen Foundation, urging it to reconsider the decision to cut funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings for the poor.
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Jan31
Gillibrand: Congress Must Put Economy First
Despite a fractured Congress, lawmakers must come together to ensure that people are working and businesses are growing, said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, during a meeting with the Editorial Board of The Journal News and LoHud.com.
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Jan30
Restoring Americans' Faith In Congress
in November, I introduced The STOCK Act in the Senate. This bipartisan common sense legislation would close the insider trading loophole and take the first step in beginning to restore the American people's trust in their elected leaders.
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Jan30
Hoping to regain public trust, unpopular Congress tries to police itself on inside trading
“We can start restoring some of the faith that’s been lost in our government by taking this common sense step of making members of Congress play by the exact same rules as everyone else,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.