Washington, D.C. – Today, as America marks “Equal Pay Day” Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) re-introduced her “Ending Tax Breaks for Discrimination Act of 2012” legislation that would end tax breaks for doing business at clubs that discriminate, such as Augusta National Golf Club, home to golf’s celebrated Masters.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, today backed President Obama’s proposals to improve enforcement and curb manipulation in the oil futures markets.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), a senior member of the New York House delegation reacted to Rep. Ed Towns’ announcement that he would not run for re-election:
New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan & Queens) today presented a mock check from the federal government for $500,000 to officials charged with creating the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The display check symbolizes the half-million dollar appropriation that Congresswoman Maloney helped secure to support the Park’s construction.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), former ranking member of the Census Subcommittee, today applauded Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves after he announced his departure from the Bureau to become Provost of Georgetown University.
Highland Park, New Jersey - Today on Good Friday, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) visited with Indonesian Christians who came to America to escape severe religious persecution, and who are fighting a deportation order by seeking sanctuary at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in central New Jersey. She was scheduled to be joined on the visit by her House colleague, Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ).
WASHINGTON - Representatives Marsha Blackburn and Carolyn Maloney yesterday sent a bipartisan letter to Google questioning how the company’s advertising practices addresses human trafficking.
In response to this week’s vote by the Science/Technical Advisory Committee, U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, along with U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, the prime sponsors of the Act, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius requesting a meeting to discuss the process of how the Department will proceed with a decision on whether to add certain cancers to the list of covered conditions in the World Trade Center Health Program. A copy of the letter appears below.