Kirsten E. Gillibrand D

BACKGROUND

• Gillibrand, 57, an Albany resident, is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines in the general election. She is seeking a third full term in the U.S. Senate. 
• Gillibrand won a seat in the U.S. House in 2006 and won reelection in 2008. She was appointed in 2009 to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 for the Senate seat and won again in 2012 and 2018 for full six-year terms.  
• She graduated from Dartmouth University and UCLA School of Law, and clerked for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She was a partner at the Boies, Schiller and Flexner law firm.

ISSUES

• Gillibrand is lead sponsor of a bill to provide full funding for the World Trade Center Health Program.
• Gillibrand is campaigning on protecting reproductive rights, and has proposed bills and supports legislation to combat gun violence.
• She also seeks to ban all stock trading by members of Congress.