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Now are a monthly call your senator segment.

My questions and yours for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

New Yorkers, call your senator if you have a question or you can ask for help with a government benefit or a bureaucratic hurdle.

We get calls for hers like that sometimes.

Or with any micro-lobying you want to do in the

short time you'll have on the air. 212-433 WNYC. People not in New York may also call. 212-433-9-6-9-2, call or text.

My questions today will be mostly on the new risk that much of the government

will shut down tomorrow night because President Trump and Elon Musk rejected a bipartisan

spending deal. Senator Gillibrand's request to President Biden that he declared the equal

rights amendment ratified her take on the threat level from any of the drones that people

are seeing. I think she has a new letter to officials about that this week, her take on some of the

nominees. And as a member of the Armed Services Committee, her take on the new defense spending

bill, which Congress did pass this week, even though many Democrats are

unhappy that it includes a ban on covering gender-related health care for children of service members.

Anyway, Senator Gillibrand, always good to have you do these call your senator segments.

We really appreciate it. Welcome

back to WNYC. Thanks so much. I'm happy to be on the show. And again, listeners, your questions,

requests for help with the bureaucracy, and micro-lobbing. Welcome here at 212-433. WNYC, call or text. Let's start with the ERA, the Equal Rights Amendment.

What are you asking President Biden to do and with what legal rationale?

So we are asking President Biden to stand up for what he believes in, which is equality for all women.

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