Democrats are calling for the elimination of a question on citizenship slated to be placed on census forms starting in 2020, arguing that its addition is a "discriminatory decision" by the Trump administration.
The Democratic backlash follows the Department of Commerce's announcement that the citizenship question would be reinstated Mondayevening.
NEW YORK—Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) and Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul hosted The Future is Female: Making a Difference in our Communities and in Congress with the Lower East Side Girls Club to highlight the importance of gender equality and discuss important initiatives to support women and girls, including state and federal Equal Rights Amendments, the establishment of a Smithsonian Women’s History Museum, and New York’s Women’s Agenda.
Funding research to cure breast cancer is an important goal of the new Breast Cancer Awareness commemorative coin program.
At the launch ceremony March 15 in Washington, D.C., Rep. Carolyn Maloney said, “Not only will sales of these coins help spread awareness, they also have the potential to raise up to $8 million in private funds for breast cancer research without any cost to taxpayers. This coin program takes us another step closer to finding a cure.”
Maloney was a congressional co-sponsor who first introduced the commemorative legislation in Congress.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), today expressed her support to Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan for a commemorative stamp in honor of the late New York Representative Bella S. Abzug.
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) and Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), today led a group of their New York and New Jersey colleagues in voicing their continued opposition to helicopter tourism in light of the March 11 helicopter crash in New York City’s East River that killed five passengers. They are also asking for more information about the crash from the FAA and the NTSB who are conducting the investigation. Joining Reps. Maloney and Nadler on the letter were Donald M. Payne Jr. (NJ-10), Nydia M. Velazquez (NY-7), Albio Sires (NJ-8), Bill Pascrell Jr.
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), co-chair and co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, today introduced a House Resolution calling for a fair and mutually agreed-upon name for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or FYROM, according to U.S. foreign policy priorities.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), author of H.R. 19, Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act, released the following statement on the inclusion of $2 million designated for the Smithsonian Women’s Initiative in the FY2018 Omnibus spending package.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), author of HR1832, a bill to repeal the Dickey Amendment and fund gun violence research at the Centers for Disease Control, applauded language included in the Omnibus spending bill to remove the ban on such research.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Senate passed the bipartisan H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which includes an amendment added in the House to incorporate provisions of S. 1693, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). After Senate passage of the FOSTA-SESTA legislative package, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), co-chair and co-founder of the Human Trafficking Caucus, released the following statement: