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Oct 31, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) expressed strong disapproval of today’s decision by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to grant membership to the Palestinians.

Oct 26, 2011 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Hellenic Caucus co-founder and co-chair, joined her fellow Caucus co-chair and lead sponsor Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL), and fellow New Yorker Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) in introducing H.R. 3131, bipartisan legislation that expresses gratitude to the government of Greece for preventing the Gaza flotilla from setting sail in contravention of Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza. 

Oct 19, 2011 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee and one of the authors of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), today hailed the appointment of Hubert H. “Skip” Humphrey, former Attorney General of Minnesota, and the new chief of the Office of Older Americans within the CFPB.

Oct 18, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) celebrated the news of the release of Gilad Shalit:

Oct 17, 2011 Press Release

(Long Island City, NY) -- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Michael Gianaris, Long Island City Partnership President Gayle Baron, and business and community leaders in Queens today voiced their strong support for Applied Sciences NYC, a Bloomberg administration initiative to site a state-of-the-art applied sciences campus in New York City, and specifically for a City-owned site on Roosevelt Island and to provide the new engineering institution with up to $100 million in infrastructure investments.

Oct 14, 2011 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, applauded the agreement announced today between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to rebuild St. Nicholas Church at 130 Liberty Street in lower Manhattan.  The original St. Nicholas Church was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Oct 12, 2011 Press Release

 

Queens, NY – U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velázquez, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan today joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Judith Enck, Superfund Director Walter Mugdan and New York City Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland on a boat tour of the Newtown Creek Superfund cleanup area.  The tour, led by Administrator Enck, took the lawmakers to several of the major sources of pollution in Newtown Creek, and showed the lawmakers areas where the EPA has taken core samples and conducted other preliminary environmental sampling to determine the extent and severity of pollution in the waterway.   
Oct 7, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) issued the following statement this week following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will create a source of financing for the construction of an esplanade along the East River from 38th to 60th Streets...

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