the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to improve the Lifeline program and ensure that more Americans can afford access, and have means of access, to broadband and phone service". In May 2018, Gillibrand voted for a bill that would reinstate net neutrality rules and thereby overturn the FCC's repeal via a law authorizing Congress to reverse regulatory actions by a simple majority vote. Government Gillibrand expressed support for preserving the Senate filibuster during an interview in 2019, saying it's "useful" because it encourages bipartisan consensus seeking, and saying "if you’re not able to get 60 votes on something, it just means you haven’t worked hard enough, talking to enough people and trying to listen to their concerns and then coming up with a solution that they can support [...] it just means you haven’t done enough advocacy and you need to work a lot harder". Campaign finance Gillibrand opposed the Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United and supports the DISCLOSE Act. In January 2016, Gillibrand was one of twenty-nine senators to sign a letter to President Obama urging him to issue a final executive order that would require federal contractors to disclose political donations, arguing that form of disclosure was "a modest step that would expose an especially troubling type of secret money: campaign contributions that have the potential to influence government contracting practices." Ethics Gillibrand made ethics a central theme of her campaign in 2010, outlining a 4-part plan for reform: Make Federal Funding Requests Fully Transparent An earmark database Reduce Corporate Special Interest Influence on Elections If a corporation wants to run an advertisement during a political campaign, the CEO would have to appear at the end of the ad and approve the message. If an advocacy organization is behind the ad, the head of the organization, and whoever is funding the ad would have to appear in the ad and approve it. They would also have to list the top five funders paying for the ad. Foreign-owned companies would be banned from spending unlimited sums of money through their U.S.-based subsidiaries. No company with government contracts with over $50,000 could spend money on elections, and no company taking any taxpayer-funded assistance, such as TARP money, could spend money on elections. End Automatic Congressional Pay Raises Ban Anonymous Holds on Legislation Transparency Gillibrand's office has published a "Sunlight Report" since she began her tenure as a member