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WASHINGTON—Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) today joined with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to introduce the Affordable Housing Preservation Act. The legislation will fund the creation of community-owned cooperatives for low-income people, helping to alleviate the affordable housing crisis while allowing people to communally own the homes they live in.
Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) released the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
“This week marks 106 years since the Ottoman Empire began its systematic and reprehensible genocide of 1.5 million Armenians.
For nearly 50 years, generations of feminists in the U.S. have marched, lobbied and advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)—a simple but crucial amendment that would enshrine gender equality in the Constitution. And all the while, protectors of the status quo have taken extreme measures to block their path.
In 1996, Purdue Pharma released OxyContin, the prescription painkiller largely blamed for the opioid addiction crisis that has killed about 500,000 Americans in recent decades.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) today reintroduced the Public Housing Solar Equity Act. This legislation will ensure that when a public housing authority (PHA), such as NYCHA, sells or leases assets to private companies for the installation of solar panels, residents’ needs come first.
Washington — The House voted Thursday on a bill that would admit Washington, D.C., as the 51st state, although the measure is likely to fail in the evenly divided Senate. The legislation passed along party lines with a vote of 216 to 208, with no Republicans voting in favor.
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation that would make Washington, D.C., the country’s 51st state, a move that would grant residents of the nation’s capital full voting rights and representation in Congress.
The bill, H.R. 51, passed along party lines. The vote will bring D.C. closer to statehood than it has been in at least three decades.