Honorable Kirsten Gillibrand
United States Senator, New York, Democrat
Senator Gillibrand was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2009 and elected to a full term in 2010. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009. She sits on the following committees: Armed Services, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Personnel; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing, and Agriculture Security; and the Select Committee on Aging. The following is from Senator Gillibrand’s opening statement at a March 13, 2013, oversight hearing on Sexual Assaults in the Military, held by the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Senate Armed Services…
