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Kirsten E. Gillibrand was first sworn in as United States Senator
from New York in January 2009. In November 2012, Gillibrand was elected
to her first six-year Senate term with 72 percent of the vote, winning
60 of New Yorkâ??s 62 counties.
Prior to her service in the
Senate, Gillibrand served in the U.S. House of Representatives,
representing New York's 20th Congressional District, which spanned 10
counties in upstate New York.
Throughout her time in Congress, Senator Gillibrand has been
committed to open and honest government. When she was first elected, she
pledged to bring unprecedented transparency and access to her post. And
she did, becoming the first Member of Congress to post her official
public schedule, personal financial disclosure, and federal earmark
requests online. The New York Times called Gillibrand's
commitment to transparency a "quiet touch of revolution" in Washington,
and The Sunlight Foundation, the leading advocacy organization dedicated
to making government more open and transparent, praised Senator
Gillibrand as a pioneer for her work. For more information, visit Senator Gillibrand's Sunlight Report at http://gillibrand.senate.gov/sunlight/
More at http://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/about/biography