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WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) issued the following statement upon release by the U.S. Census Bureau of the “Census Coverage Measurement,” a statistical survey whose results are measured against actual census data in order to measure efficiency of the decennial Census:
New York, NY - Today, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney; State Senator Liz Krueger; NYS Assembly Members Micah Kellner and Dan Quart; City Council Member Jessica Lappin; Residents for Sane Trash Solutions; tenants from the Stanley Isaacs Houses and John Haynes Holmes Towers public housing developments; supporters of the Asphalt Green recreational facility; members of the Gracie Point Community Council; and other local leaders and residents joined to reiterate their strong opposition to the City's effort to construct a massive garbage marine transfer station (MTS) on the East River waterfront at East 91st Street.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) introduced legislation, H.R. 5828, with Reps. Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) and Michael Honda (D-CA), which would help eliminate uncertainty for military and overseas voters when they request an absentee ballot this year that they will get ballots for each of the elections for the complete general election cycle when voting absentee.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) voted against the House Majority’s version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization, which passed the House today by a vote of 222 – 205.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, today issued the following statement upon Senate passage of the Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2012:
Washington, DC – Over Mother’s Day weekend, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney visited members of the United States armed forces serving in Afghanistan, joining a bipartisan congressional delegation that also included House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Jean Schmidt (R-OH) and Terri Sewell (D-AL). The lawmakers met with troops in the field and participated in important discussions with American and Afghan government and military officials as well as with Afghan women leaders and organizations. On the trip, they visited Helmand and Kandahar provinces, two of the most war-torn areas in the current conflict in Afghanistan, and yesterday traveled to Kabul, the nation’s capital. It was the first congressional delegation to visit Afghanistan since the historic Strategic Partnership Agreement signed by President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on May 1, 2012.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, introduced H.Res. 650, a resolution that urges the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to work within the framework of the United Nations process with Greece to achieve longstanding United States and United Nations policy goals of resolving the name dispute and encourages the United States to work with its NATO allies to uphold previous NATO Summits decisions, with regard to the enlargement issue.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), former ranking member of the Census subcommittee, offered the following comment after the House voted to de-fund the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (Roll Call #232: 232 - 190) : “The Republicans have earned a reputation as the ‘do-nothing party’ and now they want to also be the ‘know-nothing party’. This vote repeals the work done by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama and six Congresses to modernize the Census, and does so without even a hearing or full debate.”
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) applauded President Barack Obama’s statement of support for marriage equality for same-sex couples. In a statement issued after the President’s statement this afternoon, Congresswoman Maloney said:
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, along with 46 cosponsors, this week introduced the “Overdraft Protection Act” which would require a consumer’s affirmative opt-in to overdraft plans with clear disclosure of coverage and fees, require overdraft fees be “reasonable and proportional” to the cost of the transaction, limit the quantity of fees that can be charged to one per month and six per year, improve notice to consumers when an overdraft is incurred, and ban the manipulation of transaction posting order in a way that maximizes fees paid to banks.