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WASHINGTON, DC - Joining a bipartisan letter of October 14, 2004, signed by 11 leading members of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Maloney strongly criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission for proposing rules that would ignore congressional intent in the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act and prevent banks from continuing to provide self-directed IRA, bond trustee and other traditional services to customers.
WASHINGTON, DC - By adjourning without voting on an extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), the Republican majority in Congress failed to provide New York with critical protection, according to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14).
WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) joined the House Democratic Leadership and eighty other Democrats by signing a letter to Michael Powell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to request an FCC investigation into the decision by Sinclair Broadcasting Company to pre-empt news programming for its 62 affiliates across the country to air a 90-minute anti-Kerry film right before the November 2 election. In response to a similar Senate letter led by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Powell has said he will not take action.
WASHINGTON, DC - While President Bush and the Republican majority in Congress are touting H.R. 4520, the corporate tax bill Congress passed Columbus Day weekend, Representative Carolyn Maloney joined Senator John Kerry and many other Democrats in strongly criticizing the bill for sending jobs overseas.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, legislation that will ensure that DNA technology is used to convict rapists and free the innocent, while also protecting the rights of crime victims, unanimously passed the Senate and will soon be on the president’s desk. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-14) commended the Senate for unanimously passing HR 5107, the “Justice For All Act,” which includes “The Debbie Smith Act,” rape DNA legislation originally authored by Maloney. HR 5107 passed the House of Representatives earlier this week by a vote of 393-14.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Department of Labor released statistics showing that only 96,000 jobs were created last month, only two-thirds of what Wall Street analysts expected and far short of the 150,000 new jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics states are needed just to keep pace with the number of people coming into the job market. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14), member of the Joint Economic Committee and ranking member on the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology, said the following: