Kirsten Gillibrand [New York State Senator]. (n.d.). Retrieved February 7, 2010, from United States Senator Web site: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/

Chapter 9- Political Institutions

For this assignment, I located the Senator and Congressional Representatives of New York state which is my home town. The two senators of New York state are Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer. The Congressional Representative is Carolyn Mcarthy. Both websites offer you adequate and sufficient information. They both offer you information on social issues such as the senators website offers you information about the economy, health care, education, etc. The Congressional Representatives website also offers information about education and health care but this particular website gives you more choices of issues to choose from and read about, whereas the senators website is a little more narrow. Information on each website is adequate and they offer a lot of information. Both seem to focus from a liberal point of view with their focuses both being on social justice and their views of health care. On Senators Kirsten Gillibrand's website, she makes reference to the economy. She states that economic development and job creations were her first priority when she became senator. Congressional Representative Carolyn Mcarthy makes reference to the health care issues. It says that she has been working hard to provide a well trained and strong forced health care workforce that can meet growing demands. Governor David Paterson also has a lot of information on his website as well, only this information doesn't really seem to be about anything besides his speeches and bill reforms.