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WASHINGTON, DC - Key border protection agencies under the Department of Homeland Security will be unable to add new agents due to a hiring freeze caused by either budget shortfall or a computer glitch that created the shortfall. The Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaus are affected by the freeze.
U.S. Rep. Maloney Joins PRLDEF In Urging Better Test Outreach & Better Count from U.S. Census Bureau
WASHINGTON, DC - In a statement on the House floor on March 25, 2004 commemorating Greek Independence Day, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-14) said, “Mr. Speaker, I rise with my colleague and dear friend, the gentleman from Florida Congressman Bilirakis, with whom I founded and co-chair the Hellenic Caucus, to celebrate the 183rd anniversary of Greece's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY), who has been heavily involved in the long and difficult effort to win federal funds for the health monitoring of 9/11 rescue workers, released the following statement today in response to yesterday’s announcement by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson that HHS would finally award $81 million to medical institutions for the screening of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Alliance for Retired Americans, a national organization representing three million retirees around the country, recently released its annual Congressional Voting Record, which rates Members of Congress on key votes to protect Medicare and Social Security and reflects their commitment to older Americans. New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (Queens, Manhattan) received a score of 100%.
WASHINGTON, DC - The United States cast the lone “no” vote as health policy leaders from Latin American and Carribean countries overwhelmingly decided to reaffirm support for the U.N.’s Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) today in Santiago, Chile. This action of disapproval for the so-called Cairo Consensus - the international community’s approach to family planning adopted by 179 countries - came as Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) and a dozen other Members of Congress sent a letter of concern to Secretary of State Colin Powell about the Bush Administration’s disdain for the Cairo Consensus. It also comes two days after International Women’s Day.
NEW YORK,NY - Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) met with a visiting delegation of Iraqi women leaders at the United Nations on the day the historic Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) was signed.