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      <excerpt>...15 human rights practices, including torture, workers' rights and women's rights. Cingranelli sent a letter to U.S. senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer to express his views on Coburn's criticism. In the letter, Cingranelli said that last </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...that he's said to be out of the governor's race, Republican Rudy Giuliani must decide whether to challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - a prospect that carries its own special drama and risk.This is the same U.S. Senate seat he was pursuing 10 y</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the Republican is &quot;more interested in running for Senate.&quot; He would seek the New York seat currently held by Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the post last winter.The New York political world buzzed all day after news organizatio</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that he told them he wouldn't run for governor next year but may challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand .&quot;Rudy doesn't want to have anything to do with Albany; it's a mess up there,&quot; said one source who worked in Ci</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the decision and said Giuliani appears to be strongly considering a run next year for the U.S. Senate against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who Republicans view as vulnerable after she was appointed to the seat in January. &quot;Within Republican circl</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...public concern that meat companies and federal regulators are not doing enough to make ground beef safe, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation that would require companies to test for a deadly E. coli strain. The bill, the E. Coli </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, has introduced the E. coli Eradication Act, legislation that would for the first time federally mandate testing of all ground beef for E. coli. The annual number of national recalls </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...form. Citing public concern that meat companies and federal regulators are not doing enough to make ground beef safe, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation that would require companies to test for a deadly E. coli strain. The bill,</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...affecting low income women who are most likely to seek coverage through the exchange. It is simply an outrageous measure and I am committed to ensuring that any similar language is defeated in the Senate and is stripped from the final bill in conference</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Giuliani Would Beat Gillibrand - A new Marist Poll in New York shows that Rudy Giuliani (D) would a formidable challenger to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and now holds a 14 point lead, 5... 47 minutes ago ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...magazine last month. The Times story linked here mentions recent talk that Rudy could challenge incumbent Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. But I doubt it. From my NY mag story: Even though a recent poll had Giuliani beating [Gillibrand] by nine po</excerpt>
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