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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, CENSUS BUREAU DIRECTOR CHECK IN ON NEARBY LOCAL CENSUS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Census Bureau Director Ken Prewitt, Congressional Census Subcommittee Chairman Dan Miller (R-FL), and Census Subcommittee Ranking-Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) visited a local census office in Alexandria, Virginia.
STATEMENT BY CONGRESSWOMAN CAROLYN MALONEY ON THE RELEASE BY THE REPUBLICAN CENSUS MONITORING BOARD'S REPORT TO CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Mr. Blackwell spent this past weekend in California busy campaigning for his Republican presidential hopeful, Steve Forbes. Maybe if Mr. Blackwell were focused on attending to just one of his two day jobs, he would have noticed that his office released an irrelevant report to the Congress on the 2000 Census. There are three reasons why this report is irrelevant :
STATEMENT BY CONGRESSWOMAN CAROLYN MALONEY ON THE RELEASE BY THE REPUBLICAN CENSUS MONITORING BOARD'S REPORT TO CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Mr. Blackwell spent this past weekend in California busy campaigning for his Republican presidential hopeful, Steve Forbes. Maybe if Mr. Blackwell were focused on attending to just one of his two day jobs, he would have noticed that his office released an irrelevant report to the Congress on the 2000 Census. There are three reasons why this report is irrelevant :
GAO EXPERTS VERIFY NEED BEHIND BUREAU'S REQUEST FOR $4.5 BILLION TO CONDUCT 2000 CENSUS
On September 22, 1999 the GAO released a report which verified the accuracy of the Census Bureau's financial plan for the 2000 Census. With less than 200 days until Census Day 2000, the Census Bureau needs to buy advertising time, and recruit and interview over 3 million prospective employees in order to hire 860,000 enumerators to actually do the Census. The Bureau needs and deserves funding which is adequate consistent, and predictable. The GAO found the Census Bureau to be helpful, open, and meticulous in sharing information. They that the Census Bureau has crafted itself a smart, timely, and conservative plan for operating the 2000 Census.
GAO REPORT BACKS CENSUS BUREAU ON BUDGET REQUEST
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Carolyn Maloney released the following statement upon the release of GAO's review of the Census Bureau's budget request:
STATEMENT BY CONGRESSWOMAN CAROLYN MALONEY ON THE PASSAGE OF THE HUTCHISON OIL ROYALTY AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "I want to commend both Senator Durbin, Senator Feingold, and especially Senator Boxer for their hard work to defeat this special interest legislation in the Senate. I am outraged that their opponents in the US Senate continue to defend this inexcusable special interest rider. Their opponents are obviously more interested in protecting the greasy hands of big-oil special interests, than in giving America's schoolchildren the money they are entitled to."
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) Remarks on the Sweeney Amendment (#21)to the Shays-Meehan Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill
Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Sweeney Amendment.
Statement by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney On Shays-Meehan Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill
WASHINGTON, DC - "I am confident that tomorrow Congress will rise from its own ashes of big-money influence and do the one thing Americans have been asking us to do for decades: pass campaign finance reform.
STATEMENT BY CONGRESSWOMAN CAROLYN MALONEY (D-NY) ON THE DEFEAT OF THE HUTCHISON OIL ROYALTY AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "Today's defeat in the Senate of the oil royalties rider proves once again that whenever we debate these issues out in the open, the tax payers always win. Whenever big-money, big-oil companies are able to do their dealings in backrooms, the tax payers always lose.
STATEMENT ISSUED FOLLOWING THE SENATE'S ADOPTION OF THE HUTCHISON AMENDMENT TO THE INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS BILL
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) issued the below statement following the Senate's adoption of the Hutchison Amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill.
