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Kirsten Gillibrand is the junior senator from New York. Born in December 1966, Gillibrand was named on January 23, 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton's empty Senate seat.
Gillibrand represented New York's 20th congressional district from 2007 until her selection. She was born in Albany and attended Dartmouth College and UCLA.
She is in the Special Committee on Aging, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Committee on Environment and Public Works and Committee on Foreign Relations.
Gillibrand represented New York's 20th congressional district from 2007 until her selection. She was born in Albany and attended Dartmouth College and UCLA.
She is in the Special Committee on Aging, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Committee on Environment and Public Works and Committee on Foreign Relations.
Kirsten Gillibrand is the junior senator from New York. Born in December 1966, Gillibrand was named on January 23, 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton's empty Senate seat.
Gillibrand represented New York's 20th congressional district from 2007 until her selection. She was born in Albany and attended Dartmouth College and UCLA.
She is in the Special Committee on Aging, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Committee on Environment and Public Works and Committee on Foreign Relations.
Gillibrand represented New York's 20th congressional district from 2007 until her selection. She was born in Albany and attended Dartmouth College and UCLA.
She is in the Special Committee on Aging, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Committee on Environment and Public Works and Committee on Foreign Relations.
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Allen West's disappointing debut
He belittled the sexual assaults facing women in the military and cast doubts on their battlefield contributions. And in so doing, former Florida Congressman Allen West made the inglorious transition from public servant to a talking head willing to say...
Tags: Entertainment, U.S. Department of Defense, Abusive Behavior, Allen West, Sexual Assault
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For U.S. military, an enemy within
The Philadelphia InquirerThe following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, June 13: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been leading the charge against the sexual assault crisis in the military, which has been struggling to curb the culture that yielded 26,000...Tags: Justice System, Prosecution, Sexual Misconduct, Armed Forces, Defense
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Military sexual assault: Senate approves new procedures
The Senate Armed Services Committee endorsed several steps to improve prosecution of military sexual assault on Wednesday during a rare open debate of its annual defense policy bill, but it killed a controversial proposal opposed by Pentagon leaders....
Tags: Prosecution, Armed Forces, Jeanne Shaheen, Carl Levin, John McCain
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Washington's enablers of sexual assault in U.S. military
The Miami HeraldThe following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Friday, June 7: Sexual assault in the military is a crime. Cluelessness should be, too. Then, perhaps, the gaggle of gob-smacked military leaders who appeared before the Senate Armed Services...Tags: Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Armed Forces, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Defense
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The military still doesn't get it
The military's top uniformed leaders did themselves no favors in their testimony Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee about sexual assaults in the military. Certainly, they were willing to give the problem lip service, but in refusing to...Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Politics, Abusive Behavior, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sexual Assault
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Saturday TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Premium Rush' on Starz
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of June 9 - 15, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES In the Flesh This three-part tale about...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Mark Udall, China, BBC, Dwayne Johnson
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Brass seeks to temper military justice overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) — American military commanders wield substantial power to discipline the troops they lead. But an epidemic of sexual assaults roiling the armed forces has Congress about to rein in that authority. The only question is by how much?...
Tags: Prosecution, Sexual Misconduct, Armed Forces, Mike Turner, Crime, Law and Justice
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Boxer, with more women in Senate, pushes military to end sexual assaults
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Sen. Barbara Boxer says she never imagined how long she'd have to keep fighting to protect women and men in uniform from sexual assault. It's been more than 20 years since the California Democrat was elected to the Senate as an outsider...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Fort Hood (military base), Barbara Boxer, Susan Collins, Dianne Feinstein
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So far, sequester's effects seem small but destabilizing
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The $85 billion in federal budget cuts called the sequester, which some warned would shake the nation like an earthquake, seems like a series of isolated tremors that are easily overlooked but still destabilizing. Taken as a whole, the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Executive Branch, Government, Lisa Murkowski, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Looming food stamp cuts split Democrats, anger anti-hunger groups
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Billions of dollars in funding cuts for food stamps, contained in bills moving through Congress, have split Democratic lawmakers and angered advocates for the poor, who criticize the cuts as heartless attempts to reduce the federal budget...Tags: Justice System, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Budgets and Budgeting, Mo Cowan, Sherrod Brown
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Equal treatment
Lawmakers are right to make stricter penalties for military personnel found guilty of sexually assault against other veterans. The House Armed Services Committee began consideration on Wednesday of a sweeping, $638 billion defense policy bill for the...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Sex Crimes, U.S. Department of Defense, Assault, U.S. House Committee on Armed Services
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Military is on the spot over sexual assaults
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both major parties rebuked the Pentagon on Tuesday for failing to curtail sexual assaults in the military, arguing that the inability of commanders to solve the problem may mean they need to be stripped of the power to...
Tags: Justice System, Claire McCaskill, Courts-Martial, Prosecution, U.S. Department of Defense
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