Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Democrat · NY · U.S. Senate
Bio
Kirsten Elizabeth Gillibrand is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from New York since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- Chambers
- House 2.1y, Senate 17.6y
- First took office
- 2007 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 26 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 59
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Albany, NY · 518-431-0120
- Buffalo, NY · 716-854-9725
- Lowville, NY · 315-376-6118
- New York, NY · 212-688-6262
- Melville, NY · 631-249-2825
- Rochester, NY · 585-263-6250
- Syracuse, NY · 315-448-0470
- Yonkers, NY · 845-875-4585
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $465k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $465k – $1.1M
- Since 2018
- +$610k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Kirsten E. Gillibrand's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Kirsten E. Gillibrand (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Gillibrand?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Gillibrandsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Ranking Member)Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Gillibrand's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Democrats Line Up Behind Abdul El-Sayed as He Clinches US Senate Nomination in MichiganDemocrats from across the ideological spectrum lined up behind Abdul El-Sayed on Wednesday after he clinched the party's nomination for a US Senate seat in Michigan.Shortly after The Associated Press projected El-Sayed as the victor in the closely watched pri…
Common Dreams · August 5, 2026- At Least Get Better At Stitching Up Elections
If I were upset about primary successes of The Left, I'd be mad at the Professional Democrats in charge of making that not happen. For months, Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had made their unof…
Eschatonblog.com · August 2, 2026 
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Grills Hegseth On Administration's Lies About IranSen. Kirsten Gillibrand took our lying "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth through the wood chipper this Tuesday during a hearing on emergency funding to replenish the $80 billion this administration has blown through during this illegal war with Iran. It's been …
Crooksandliars.com · July 22, 2026
Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist SaysCritics lit into US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he demanded on Tuesday that Congress pass President Donald Trump's plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget.While testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hegseth once again made a pitch f…
Common Dreams · July 22, 2026
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