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WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today praised Augusta National Golf Club’s invitation to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore to become the first female members when the club opens for a new season in October 2012.
Rep. Maloney applauds NYS settlement with Standard Chartered Bank over Iran money-laundering charges
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, today applauded the settlement between the New York State Department of Financial Services and Standard Chartered Bank over money-laundering charges with Iran.
New York – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) applauded the announcement by the Commission on Presidential Debates that Candy Crowley, the widely respected political journalist and anchor of “State of the Union” on the Cable News Network (CNN), to serve as the moderator of the presidential debate taking place in Hempstead, New York on October 16, 2012. Crowley is the first woman reporter to moderate a presidential debate since Carole Simpson of ABC News in 1992. Today’s announcement followed a movement to urge the Commission to select a female moderator, which included an on-line petition drive organized by high school students in New Jersey and a joint letter from several Members of Congress to the Commission that was initiated by Congresswoman Maloney.
New York – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) joined House colleagues in writing to the Co-Chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates to urge its members to select a woman moderator for one of the three U.S. Presidential debates scheduled to take place this fall.
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) along with Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Michael Grimm (R-NY) have introduced the “Interstate Land Sales Disclosure Act Update of 2012” (S. 3499/H.R. 6337) to allow condominium developers and their lenders some certainty as the economy continues to recover.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 12 co-sponsors today introduced a resolution supporting the importance of census surveys and the data they produce. In showing strong support for census programs, including the American Community Survey and the Economic Census, this resolution highlights the high value of the information provided to the nation in these surveys to both the public and private sectors. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced a companion resolution in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, DC – Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Mike Honda (D-CA), and Charles Rangel (D-NY) have introduced H.R.6263, legislation to create a Federal commission to study the impact of government policies upon the millions of Americans living overseas.
New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) celebrated the news this week that tunnel-boring had been completed on the East Side Access project, which will connect Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to Grand Central Terminal, and is the largest mass transit initiative under construction anywhere in the United States.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) today reintroduced the Give Workplace Gender Violence Victims Their Day in Court Act, to prevent employers from using workers compensation to avoid liability when employer negligence led to the crime and victims of workplace sexual violence sue their employers.
New York, NY - Today, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) condemned the decision of the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) to issue a permit allowing the City to erect a massive marine garbage transfer station (MTS) on the East River waterfront and vowed to keep fighting the proposal. The facility would have a significant impact on Asphalt Green and residents of Yorkville, with hundreds of garbage trucks expected to drive through playing fields and residential buildings on their way to the expanded garbage station in the East River.