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
- 19.7 years
- Chambers
- House 2.1y, Senate 17.7y
- 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.
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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 · 28 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
N.Y. Sen. Gillibrand says new allegations in Cornell case are 'serious and horrific'NPR's Juana Summers talks with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand about the reopening of the rape case at Cornell University, and her history of pushing legislation to curb campus sexual assault.
NPR · September 29, 2026
Navy Secretary Sends Letter to USS Abraham Lincoln Crew Amid Extended DeploymentActing Navy Secretary Hung Cao sent a letter to the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group addressing the ship’s extended deployment, according to a Navy statement and the letter cited by CNN and other outlets [1][2][3]. The letter was delivered…
Naturalnews.com · September 26, 2026
Congress Seeks to End Discrimination Against Living Organ DonorsSenators Tom Cotton and Kirsten Gillibrand Lead Protection Bill Organ Donors and Kidney Patients Ramp Up Grassroots Support WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the nation's largest and oldest independ…
PRNewswire · September 24, 2026
Wave of Suicide Attempts on USS Lincoln Expose Horror of Trump’s WarEight sailors tried to kill themselves on the USS Lincoln strike group—one of the longest-deployed aircraft carriers in military history.According to a letter from acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, first reported by CNN, two sailors tried to jump overboard, one…
The New Republic · September 24, 2026
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