Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

State:: New York
Party:: Democrat

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2009-2019	Senator	New York
2007-2009	Representative	New York's 20^th District

Track Her

Official Website: http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov

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Sponsorship Analysis

Gillibrand is a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Gillibrand to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Kirsten Gillibrand sits on the following committees:

Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management
- Member, Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research
Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Personnel
- Member, Subcommittee on Airland
- Member, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Member, Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Member, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
Senate Special Committee on Aging

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Gillibrand’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2009 to May 2013, Gillibrand missed 12 of 1,295 roll call votes, which is 0.9%. This is better than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2009 Jan-Mar	103	4	3.9%	90^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	43^rd
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	0	0.0%	0^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	38^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	55^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	42^nd
2011 Jan-Mar	46	1	2.2%	54^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	50^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	1	2.0%	53^rd
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-May	36	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
of Kirsten Gillibrand for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

May 16, 2013 1:51 p.m.