Sentences with phrase «york junior senator»

The New York junior senator says she's supporting laws that would allow police and state governments to take guns away from people found guilty of domestic abuse.

WASHINGTON - As the U.S. Senate gets set to again take up the Farm Bill in the coming weeks, New York Junior Senator Senator is saying there needs to be long - term support and a fair safety net for small dairy farmers in New York State and across the... [Read more...]

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The junior Senator from New York deserves all this new found attention as she has proven to be an excellent advocate for the state and its issues down in DC.

The DSCC spokesman just so happens to be Matt Canter, who used to work for New York's junior senator until last March.

The Long Island congressman and New York's junior senator fired off a letter to Lawrence F. Probst, chair of the US Olympic Committee, asking that he and the Board of Directors «take immediate steps to guarantee that this embarrassment does not happen again by voting that any future contracts for Olympic uniforms are made in America.»

A source close to attorney Wendy Long confirmed City & State's report that she is indeed aiming to announce a challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this week, making her the second Republican aiming to oust New York's Democratic junior senator from her perch this fall.

I don't see City folks — who we all know are pretty liberal — picking a right - wing, anti-choice, anti-birth control, anti-woman gal as New York's junior senator.

But the junior senator was not eager to tee off on her two fellow Democrats who are mounting political comebacks in the New York City elections this fall after being felled by sex scandals in recent years.

New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, released her 2016 return, revealing she earned 16 times more than her husband.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's standing with New York voters has hit an all - time Q poll high since she ascended last winter to the seat once held by Hillary Clinton, but the junior senator isn't out of the woods yet when it comes to the fall elections.

Vielkind also used the backdrop of the campaign event, the «Women for Gillibrand» luncheon, to ask if New York's junior senator had a preference in the race for Attorney General.

New York's junior senator said she believes Congress should hold Trump accountable for the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him, and hold hearings if he's unwilling to resign.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch won't back Rep. Bob Turner in his bid to unseat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, he told BuzzFeed, saying he's firmly in the corner of New York's junior senator despite backing Turner in his special election last year.

55 % of the state's electorate wants President - elect Barack Obama to select New York's junior senator as his Secretary of State while 31 % think Clinton should remain in the U.S. Senate.

Not one, but two Republicans connected to the veteran operative have been approached by party leaders and asked to consider challenging New York's junior senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, next fall.

Hundreds attended the event, which is the first in a series of town hall meetings New York's junior senator plans to hold across the state.

So Kirsten Gillibrand, New York's flip - flopping junior US senator, may get a serious challenger next year after all.

The little - known Long was last seen on the campaign trail in 2012 when she ran against New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand.

For now, Gillibrand will be in Schumer's shadow, but New York's junior senator has been building her profile as an advocate for women and the sexually abused.

That sum, collected in the first three months of this year, is about $ 1 million more than her previous best quarter, said a campaign aide for Gillibrand, a Democrat and the junior senator from New York.

DADT became something of a cause celebre for the junior senator from New York, and she was in the forefront of the (eventually successful) push for its repeal late last year.

«I am honored to stand with a solid majority of New Yorkers who support the effort to finally bring full marriage equality to New York,» the Democratic junior senator wrote, reiterating her own «full support for marriage equality.»

New York's Junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has had very close ties to the White House, ever since she was appointed to fill Hillary Clinton's vacant seat.

The Manhattan attorney says Gillibrand is speaking out of two megaphones: one to New Yorkers, and one to celebrities and environmentalists, and that the junior senator from New York should do more to support it.

New York's newly appointed junior senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been in office for a little over...

So far, Cuomo has yet to hold any such press conference, and he continues (as a matter of course, beyond issues related to the presidential campaign) to shun the Sunday mornings shows, where Schumer regularly pushes the president's talking points, and where New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand recently took a turn attacking Republicans for their «war on women.»

In a statement first published on the site Medium, the junior senator from New York highlighted her part in passing strict sanctions on the Islamic theocracy that she claimed «compelled its leaders to face us at the negotiating table.»

The Democratic junior senator from New York has endeared herself to liberals in recent weeks by voting against the bulk of Trump's Cabinet picks.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has dived into New York's Democratic primaries, endorsing, funding and advising several first - time congressional candidates in a test of the junior senator's own star power.

Today's Siena poll found New York's junior senator is enjoying her highest favorable rating ever: 57 - 18 percent, up from 50 - 24 percent just four months ago.

The protests come as New York's junior senator, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, is seen as tougher by liberals on opposing Trump's nominations.

The president also called New York's junior senator a «total flunky» who blindly follows Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

The congresswoman from New York City announced Friday she would not challenge the state's junior senator, fellow Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand.

Just hours after New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, declared she would support the deal — and in the middle of the first Republican Party presidential debate — Mr. Schumer posted a statement on the website Medium declaring his intention to vote no on the agreement, which Secretary of State John Kerry played a key part in negotiating.

But the junior senator from New York, who holds Clinton's former seat and is often overshadowed by the state's better - known political figures, is quietly building a résumé that would allow her to be taken seriously should she ever decide to run for president.

State Senator James Seward recently welcomed Homer High School senior Emma Murphy, Dryden High School junior Laurel Deacon, and Cortland High School freshman Abigail Bowker to Albany for the 17th annual Students Inside Albany conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation.

«New York's junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, has withdrawn her co-sponsorship of the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (S. 720), sending a powerful message to her constituents that she no longer supports the fight to combat the international delegitimization of Israel,» the email said.

New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, was officially nominated for re-election Friday at a meeting of the State Democratic Party in Albany, where she said she will serve out her entire six - year term if she wins the race in November.

But none of this seems to faze New York's junior senator, heiress to the legacy of an Albany political family who is already earning mention as a Democratic presidential possibility in 2020.

New York State's junior Senator is urging swift action on the confirmation of President Obama's nominee for the Attorney General's post.

There's the junior senator from New York — and candidate for re-election next year — who notes approvingly that Occupy Wall Street «has become a vehicle for people to vent their frustration with the economy.»

But Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, immediately parachuted into New York and suddenly Mr. Schumer was the most junior senior senator around.

Actually, to say that New York's junior senator is white is to undersell whiteness.

Her friendship with Kirsten Gillibrand goes back so far that Sewell calls New York's junior senator by an old nickname: «Tina.»

I wish you would because I despised the the fact that you are New York's junior Senator.

Clinton, of course, has her connections to New York politics, having served as the state's junior U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009.

According to the Marist Poll, Giuliani would start the race as the morning line favorite against New York's junior senator.

Clinton worked with most of the delegation when she was the junior senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

Gillibrand — the Democrat who replaced Hillary Clinton as the junior senator from New York in 2009 — said that Blake has the «determination, experience and energy» to help rebuild the Democratic Party after the hemorrhaging of the past two election cycles.

New York's junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who is also up for reelection in 2018, is, like Cuomo considered a potential 2020 Presidential candidate.