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26 Jan 2015, 4:27 am by SHG
Perhaps the wording of the segment was chosen for subtlety, to avoid the appearance of being a campaign ad for New York’s junior Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, who was accompanied to the State of Union address by Columbia University’s mattress girl, Emma Sulkowicz, despite the fact that her alleged rapist has been twice exonerated. [read post]
25 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Kirsten Gillibrand [KC Johnson, Minding the Campus] Smith College: “the word crazy was censored from the transcript, replaced with the term ‘ableist slur.'” [Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe] “Community College Courtesy of the Federal Taxpayer? [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 7:57 am by Michael Markarian
Editor's note: This post was originally published at 7:34 p.m. on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 As the gavel comes down on the 113th Congress (which spanned January 2013 to December 2014), and the new 114th Congress begins its work today, it’s a good time to take stock of what was achieved and what lies ahead for animals in the New Year. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 4:34 pm by Michael Markarian
As the gavel comes down on the 113th Congress (which spanned January 2013 to December 2014) and the new 114th Congress begins its work today, it’s a good time to take stock of what was achieved and what lies ahead for animals in the New Year. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm by Lydia Zuraw
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg with their questions about how the agency will monitor success of the guidance and ensure compliance with the VFD. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 10:03 pm by Lydia Zuraw
In September, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) urged the president to include $15 million in his FY 2016 budget request for the system. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 10:02 pm by News Desk
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday to Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Burwell, co-chairs of the newly formed Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, to ask how this task force will address gaps in how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently addressing the public health threat posed by the overuse of antibiotics in food animals. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 9:52 am by Tom Smith
., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., were citing the Virginia gang rape as evidence of the problem, but now that the story has been exposed as bogus, they're telling us that, regardless of that isolated incident, there's still a huge campus rape problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 10:59 pm by News Desk
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) expressed her support Thursday for additional funding for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Senator from Wisconsin); Kirsten Gillibrand (U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 11:03 pm by News Desk
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to step up animal antibiotic tracking. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 5:48 pm by Jon Gelman
“As a mom, I was disturbed to learn that some products children will be using for Halloween tested positive for toxic chemicals,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (New York). [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 1:54 pm by Cathy Siegner
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a joint statement, along with their Senate colleague, Richard Durbin (D-IL), noting that they had written to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack WHAT ELSE. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 10:01 pm by News Desk
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are urging the president to include $15 million in his fiscal year 2016 budget request for the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), which tracks antibiotic resistance in foodborne pathogens. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 7:45 am by Robert Kraft
Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, are asking the FDA to pull from the market laparoscopic morcellators “until regulators have further studied the technology’s potential to spread cancer during uterine surgery. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 10:49 am
She writes in her book that a male labor leader said "You're too fat to be elected statewide" and a male colleague said she was getting "porky," another said she's "even pretty when [she's] fat," and yet another made physical contact and said he liked "chubby" girls. [read post]