Kirsten Gillibrand in Survey of 2006 Senate campaign websites

On Education: More funds for NCLB and early education

Education
• Reform and fully fund ‘No Child Left Behind’
• Make $10,000 in college tuition, tax deductible
• Increase access to early childhood education

On Energy & Oil: Raise CAFE; plus alternative energy R&D

Energy & Environment
• End the tax giveaways for Big Oil
• Increase R&D for alternative energies
• Gradually increase CAFE standards
• Offer tax incentives to consumers and business that build “green” buildings

On Free Trade: Protect American jobs from going overseas

Labor
• Protect American jobs from going overseas
• Supports indexing the minimum wage to inflation
• Reject trade agreements that hurt our workers

On Government Reform: No lobbyist gifts

Ethics & Lobbying Reform
• Pledged to not accept gifts or trips from lobbyists
• Supports establishing a non-partisan congressional ethics committee
• Discloses all meetings that she has with lobbyists

On Health Care: Medicare for all; allow drug reimportation

Healthcare
• Allow anyone to buy into Medicare
• Increase funding and access to rural health care
• Insure every child in America Prescription Drugs
• Allow the government to negotiate directly with the drug companies for Medicare
• Allow the U.S. to import drugs from Canada

On Social Security: Against privatization

Social Security
• Against privatization

On War & Peace: Iraq: exit strategy & redeploy troops

Iraq
• Establish an end point and an exit strategy
• Redeploy troops to focus on fighting terrorism

National Security
• Increase the resources available to first responders
• Invest in antiterrorism measures, including increased infrastructure, port, air and rail security

Veterans
• Reform the G.I. Bill of Rights to take care of those who have served honorably
• Supports a comprehensive healthcare and education benefits plan for all veterans