Kirsten Gillibrand

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s top priorities in the United States Senate include creating more well-paying jobs to rebuild the middle class, increasing access to good, affordable healthcare and improving educational opportunities from pre-k to college or vocational training.

Throughout her time in the Senate, Senator Gillibrand has been a leader in some of the toughest fights in Washington. She led the effort to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that banned gay people from serving openly in the military; she wrote the STOCK Act, which made it illegal for members of Congress to trade stocks on insider information; and she won the long fight to provide permanent health care and compensation to the 9/11 first responders and community survivors who are sick with diseases caused by the toxins at Ground Zero.

Senator Gillibrand believes the tax system is broken, with too many special interests and billionaires not paying their fair share. She’s sponsored legislation, the End Outsourcing Act, to stop companies from shipping jobs overseas, and supports rolling back the Trump tax bill that allows the most profitable companies in America to pay less in taxes than working people.

And Senator Gillibrand believes that accountability and transparency are essential to open and honest government. She was the first member of Congress ever to post her official daily meetings, earmarks, and personal financial disclosures online.

On the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Gillibrand represents the interests of New York, which has been the top terror target in the United States since before 9/11, and works closely with the NYPD and NY Department of Homeland Security to keep our state safe. She is also working to better prepare the nation for the barrage of cyber-attacks that have targeted local institutions and private businesses alike by focusing on hardening both public and private sector cyber defenses.

It’s clear that lawlessness in the data privacy space can give rise to new, unexpected forms of injustice. Senator Gillibrand believes that our country is facing a data privacy crisis, and that Americans deserve to be in control of their own data. Senator Gillibrand leads landmark legislation, the Data Protection Act, which would create the Data Protection Agency (DPA), an independent federal agency that would protect Americans’ data, safeguard their privacy, and ensure data practices are fair and transparent.