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"As we argue the merits of various budget proposals, we must not forget that the wallets and savings accounts of our mothers, sisters, and daughters are not as heavy as they should be. Today, on Equal Pay Day, we recognize the discrimination women continue to experience each time they receive a paycheck.
“Dennis Walcott is an excellent choice to lead the Department of Education. In working with him, I have found him to be deeply committed to our city’s children and responsive to the educational needs of the district I represent. I look forward to working with him to address school overcrowding in my district, waitlists, and other challenges facing our school system in the years ahead. I know that Dennis and Mayor Bloomberg are dedicated to ensuring that all our city’s children receive a world-class education.”
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“For months, terrorists from Gaza have been playing Russian roulette with Israeli lives and today one of their missiles struck a schoolbus with a schoolboy and a driver on board. My heart goes out to their families and I am praying that the injured will recover. Thankfully, the bus driver had dropped off most of his young passengers before the missile struck. The toll could have been much higher had the missile landed earlier when the bus had dozens of students on board.
WASHINGTON, DC – At a legislative hearing of the House Financial Services Committee today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) assailed Republican legislation to “delay and diffuse” the authority of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), scheduled to open for business in July.
“Today’s announcement of 216,000 private sector jobs created in March and a drop in the unemployment rate from 8.9 to 8.8 percent—and a full point drop in just the last four months--marks the rise of employment for the 13th straight month. So after two years of hard work on the part of the administration and Democrats in Congress, our efforts are bearing fruit, slowly but surely.
“While the proposed cuts would be devastating to Americans as a whole, this bill will change the daily lives of women for the worse,” Maloney said in her report, viewable here. “This is a distinct, frontal attack on the needs of women, from birth to old age:
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), today issued the following statement on publication of the results of the 2010 Decennial Census.
“I along with many in New York are concerned that the results of the 2010 decennial census may not reflect the growth in the City that many of us believe occurred over the last ten years. I am particularly concerned by the difference between the results of the Decennial Census in many of New York City’s communities and the estimates the Census Bureau made last year as to the City’s current population, as well as the difference between the 7.8% vacancy rate measured by the Census Bureau and the 2.7% vacancy rate found in the 2008 New York Housing and Vacancy Survey.