110th Congress

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CDC Takes Measures to Address 9/11 Health Concerns

New York, NY – Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will issue a solicitation for sources to provide federally-funded medical monitoring and treatment to thousands of 9/11 responders who live outside metropolitan New York City.  (Click here for a copy of the CDC’s announcement.)  In December, the Administration suddenly announced that it had abandoned plans to create such a program.  At the time, the CDC expressed concerns over the availability of continued funding, even though Congress was in the process of approving another $108 million for 9/11 health care.

Rep. Maloney Introduces Legislation Naming New Census Headquarters for Founding Father Thomas Jefferson

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), along with Reps. Albert Wynn (D-MD), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Thomas M. Davis (R-VA), Michael Turner (R-OH), Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Chris Cannon (R-UT), Michael Honda (D-CA) and Charles Gonzalez (D-TX) introduced legislation (H.R. 5599) to name the new state-of-the-art Census Bureau Headquarters in Suitland Maryland, the “Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Building.”

Chairwoman Maloney’s Statement on Why the Consumer Witness Panel Was Pulled From This Morning’s Credit Card Hearing

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, issued the following statement to explain why the panel of consumer witnesses for her subcommittee hearing, The Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights: Providing New Protections for Consumers, was pulled at the last minute:

Prepared Remarks of Chairwoman Maloney for Subcommittee Hearing on the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chair of the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, delivered the following prepared remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing, The Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights: Providing New Protections for Consumers:

Maloney Federal Procurement Oversight Bill Advances

Washington, DC – The “Contractors and Federal Spending Accountability Act” (H.R. 3033), legislation introduced by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) to create a comprehensive, centralized database that would more efficiently monitor the federal procurement system and help protect U.S. taxpayer dollars, advanced in the House today.  Currently, no central database exists to track fraudulent federal contractors and prevent them from continuing to do business with the federal government.  Maloney’s bill was marked-up and voted out of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  The bill can now advance to the floor for a full House vote.  

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