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Women of the 2009-2010 Senate: Day 1

By Rachel Rawlings
When Hillary Clinton left the U.S. Senate to become Secretary of State on the 21st, the Senate was briefly one woman short. However, with this weekend's appointment of Albany-area Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to replace her, there is once again a female Senator from New York, restoring us to a total of 17 women in the current Senate – the highest…
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Kirsten Gillibrand, Who Are You?

By Laura Baudo Sillerman
These are immutable facts.  Kirsten Gillibrand was born in 1966.  She graduated from Dartmouth.  She is a woman.  And one thing more: We are in a laboratory now. This is going to be a test of walking the walk, not talking the talk.  And a test of women of a certain stripe to see if we can wait and see…
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Extra! All-Gillibrand Newsmix

By Womens Voices for Change
WVFC is still buzzing about the choice of 42-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand to be the next Senator from New York. To accompany our interview of her, above, here are some links of commentary by others, as well as  the transcript of her remarks and those by New York Governor David Paterson. Time Magazine’s profile notes that “Rep. Kristen [sic] Gillibrand is…
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