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Gillibrand: President's Budget Important First Step For Middle Class Families & Important Investment To Fight Campus Sexual Assault

Statement

Date: Feb. 2, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Government Budget and Spending Education Criminal Justice Family

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement on the President's budget, announced today:

"The President's budget is not just a starting point for discussions with Congress, it is fundamentally a statement of values. With his proposal, the President rightly makes the growth of the middle class a priority and focuses on addressing the challenges working families across the country face. On issues like paid family leave, affordable child care and early childhood education, the President's budget provides an important first step toward fair economic policies that will strengthen our workforce and economy. I believe we can and must go farther, and will reintroduce the FAMILY Act to ensure that working Americans, no matter where they live, have access to paid leave.

"I also want to applaud the President's addition of $31 million for the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for addressing campus sexual assault complaints. The ability to hire and train new staff focused on sexual violence is part of the comprehensive reform that survivors and advocates have urged us to adopt."


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