Media Center
Nov 3, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - In the wake of repeated postponements by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on deciding Plan B emergency contraception's over-the-counter status, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced legislation requiring a decision on Plan B (text of bill: http://maloney.house.gov/sites/maloney.house.gov/files/documents/olddocs/choice/110305PlanBBill.pdf) . The legislation was introduced by Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Christopher Shays (R-CT), Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Joe Crowley (D-NY), all members of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus.
Oct 27, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - After months of concern and bad news about $125 million the Bush administration aims to take back from injured 9/11 responders, New York’s Senators scored a victory yesterday in the Senate. Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer successfully attached an amendment to the Labor-HHS Appropriations bill that covers the $125 million. The version of the bill that already passed the House of Representatives would take back the money, which was originally appropriated in 2001's emergency 9/11 spending bill.
Oct 27, 2005
Press Release
NEW YORK, NY - Today, eleven New York Members of Congress sent a letter to Veterans Administration Secretary Jim Nicholson requesting that the VA keep the Manhattan and Brooklyn VA Hospitals open and ready to serve New York vets.
Oct 26, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - Yesterday, for the third time, White House spokesman Scott McClellan was directly asked if President Bush supports birth control, and for the third time, he could not give a direct answer (transcript below). A day after Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 31 of her colleagues sent a letter to the president asking again if he opposes birth control, White House correspondent Les Kinsolving raised the question with McClellan. Kinsolving also has asked the question the two previous times.
Oct 23, 2005
Press Release
QUEENS, NY - In front of a shut-down fire station in Queens, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan demanded that crucial homeland security grants be distributed according to threat assessments, not politics. They were joined by Gerald J. Walsh, President, Dutch Kills Civic Association, Kurt Hill, Director of Outreach, People's Firehouse, Inc., and numerous community and civilian fire-safety advocates.
Oct 20, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - Two weeks after the Congress disallowed the forgiveness of loans for cash-strapped Gulf Coast municipalities, there is new Congressional legislation that would reverse course and allow those loans to be forgiven. The Bush administration and Republican Congress’s hard-line stance in opposition to forgiving Gulf Coast loans is in stark contrast to their hard-line stance that the Iraqi reconstruction not be burdened with loans.
Oct 19, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - Often-overlooked, military rape victims would get much-needed help from legislation reintroduced today in Congress. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) reintroduced the Preventing Sexual Assaults in the Military Act, which would authorize three years of funds
Oct 18, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - As the Associated Press and Washington Post reported today, an examination of former FEMA Director Michael Brown’s e-mails immediately after Hurricane Katrina shows many levels of confusion and inaction in the federal response to the catastrophe. This new information has reinforced demands for an independent commission, similar to the one created to investigate 9/11.
Oct 7, 2005
Newsletter
Dear neighbors:
I hope everyone had a wonderful summer and was able to stay cool in the sweltering weather. Members of Congress have returned to Washington – unfortunately, we were immediately confronted with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation’s history.
In this E-Newsletter:
Oct 7, 2005
Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and ten of her colleagues sent a letter to President Bush expressing their strong concerns about rights for Iraqi women under the draft Iraqi constitution and the need to address other challenges that Iraqi women currently are facing.