May 21, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand

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Gillibrand Gets Big Endorsement

The New York Times | Posted 10.21.2012 | New York

Voters this year will choose United States senators who will face tough policy choices regardless of who wins the White House. Tax policy, deficit red...

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Senate Challenger Says Soldiers Don't Fight For Right To Contraception

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 07.05.2012 | Politics

A New York GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate has included in her stump speech the claim that America's fighting men and women are not risking their li...

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10 Political Women To Watch

The Daily Beast | Posted 06.13.2012 | Women

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You already know the women to watch in politics-Nancy, Hillary, Sarah, and the others who make news by tweeting a thought, making an endorsement, or s...

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Bill Would Put Women On Front Lines In Battle

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military opened more jobs to women this week that are closer to combat, but a new bill being introduced in the Senate would all...

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Weiner's Successor Announces Bid For Higher Office

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.13.2012 | Politics

Six months after his upset victory in a special election for Congress, U.S. Rep. Bob Turner (R-N.Y.) has announced that he will seek the Republican no...

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A Vision of Power: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi And Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Deborah Stambler | Posted 11.23.2011 | Women

Power and ambition are still not considered ladylike terms. Rather than despair over the image of Lady Macbeth and her murderous power play, I went to New York City last week for The WIE Symposium, where I had the opportunity to speak with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. I asked them both about how we can change the largely negative connotations our culture has surrounding women, power and ambition.

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Kirsten Gillibrand Blasts Eric Cantor Over Disaster Relief

YNN | By Web Staff | Posted 10.31.2011 | Politics

Senator Gillibrand said, "I think it's irresponsible, and I think he lacked judgement, and I think he should come and begin to meet with the homes, th...

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Personal Democracy Forum 2011 -- Agents of Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.20.2011 | Technology

When dictators understand the power of social and mobile, they move toward controlling it or shutting it down. There was hearty agreement that access to the Internet should be an "international right."

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Dem Senator On Afghanistan: 'We've Been There Too Long'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) expressed frustration with the duration of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan in an interview with ABC News, p...

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Gun Violence Victims Deserve "Do Something" Congress

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

If there is one thing the new Congress and President Obama ought to agree on, it's that gun violence victims deserve their support, their leadership, and their determination.

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Harry Reid Praises Kirsten Gillibrand's Looks: 'The Hottest Member' Of The Senate

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gave some awkwardly timed and very forward admiration to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) at a New York City fundrai...

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Gillibrand Lauded By Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence, Two Years After Being Hailed By NRA

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR'-sten JIL'-uh-brand) has been endorsed for election by a leading gun control gr...

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Kirsten Gillibrand: Last Woman Standing

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

She's the Rodney Dangerfield of New York politics. More than a year after she was named to replace Hillary Clinton, New York's junior senator is still getting no respect. Nevertheless, Gillibrand looks like a winner.

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Marc Mukasey, Son Of Michael Mukasey, May Run For NY Senate

New York Post | Maggie Haberman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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Marc Mukasey, the son of Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey, is mulling mounting a challenge to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...

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