The Buffalo News: Gillibrand’s stature in capital skyrockets
The Buffalo News reports:
Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand may or may not win this week when the Senate finally votes on her legislation putting the prosecution of sexual assaults in the military in the hands of trained prosecutors rather than commanders.
But in a sense, she’s won no matter what.
Gillibrand, a New York Democrat who was appointed to office five years ago and who spent her first years in the Senate in the shadow of her predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton, now finds her stature in the capital skyrocketing. And her relentless – and, to some, overbearing – effort to win passage of her military sexual assault bill is one big reason for it.
