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New York, NY – Today at City Hall, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) announced the introduction of H.R. 2759, the Business Transparency on Trafficking & Slavery Act, which would require companies to disclose any measures taken to identify and address instances of human trafficking, slavery, and child labor in their supply chains.
WASHINGTON, DC-- Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney issued the following statement after voting "no" on S. 365, the bill which would raise the debt ceiling and make massive cuts over ten years to the federal budget.
ASTORIA, NY -- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Michael Gianaris, Assembly Member Aravella Simotas, and City Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr., today announced that they had sent a joint letter to U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe urging the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep open the Grand Station post office in Astoria.
WASHINGTON, DC-- Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) praised Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s announcement of Obama Administration approval of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recommendations on preventive services, which would make breastfeeding counseling and rental of breastfeeding equipment freely available to women who choose to breastfeed.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley have introduced the Breastfeeding Promotion Act of 2011. The legislation helps ensure that more working mothers can continue to breastfeed their babies after they return to work, providing health benefits to their children. The Breastfeeding Promotion Act reflects elements of a 2007 Oregon law passed under Merkley’s leadership to ensure workers have private areas and breaks to pump during the workday.
Rep. Maloney, Sen. Lautenberg introduce bill to ensure women are not denied access to contraceptives
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the release of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report recommending that birth control be made available without copays because of its importance for women’s preventive health care, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced legislation to protect a woman’s fundamental right of access to legal contraception.
New York, NY – Today, U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, released the following statement on the announcement by 9/11 Health Program Administrator Dr. John Howard that cancers will not yet be considered covered conditions under the Zadroga Act.
NEW YORK, NY – Following last night’s televised statements by President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) released the following statement on extending the national debt ceiling, which the U.S. Treasury Department has said is set to be reached on August 2, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY - Today, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) had agreed to the request she and her colleagues in local government – State Senator Liz Krueger, Assemblyman Micah Kellner, former Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Councilmembers Dan Garodnick and Jessica Lappin – made on June 14, 2011 that it solicit public comment on the City's effort to secure a permit to construct a new dock in the East River, which is needed to open a controversial garbage transfer station in the middle of a densely residential neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), ranking member of the House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, and a member of last year’s Dodd-Frank conference committee which created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, today opposed the Republican bill (HR 1315) which restructures the CFPB just as it opens its doors today.