Carolyn Maloney

Before we further increase natural gas production, we need to evaluate this, the methane and how that is being controlled.

I thought 501(c)(4)s had a tax treatment that was favorable to them.

Ratification of CEDAW would continue our nation's proud bipartisan tradition of promoting and protecting rights for all.

The Paycheck Fairness Act... is important particularly as it relates to women.

The CBO also projected it would lift nearly 1 million people out of poverty.

The minimum wage... has to be done carefully.

We need those policies for those Americans who are not employed.

Quality affordable child care is another issue, as well as expanding family and medical leave.

This money would be plowed right back into the economy, effectively be a stimulus for our economy.

The minimum wage is now effectively lower than it has been at any time since 1968.

I have introduced a bill that I modeled after a bill in London that has worked very well called the Flexibility for Working Families Act.

We need to extend unemployment insurance. That is incredibly important for these citizens.

Public housing is critically important in our Nation.

Mr. Connolly, the Ranking Member, and I share your concerns over waste, fraud and abuse that undermines the support of public housing.

I find too often women's issues are swept under the carpet, or ignored, or not paid any attention to at all.

I describe it as a death by a thousand cuts, cut here, cut there, but put it all together and it will hinder tremendously the ability of the CFPB to be effective.

In just 3 years, the CFPB has made huge strides on a number of important consumer protections, from mortgage disclosures to helping veterans, seniors, credit cards, to remittance transfers.

I agreed very much with Mr. Pincus' opening statement that industry should support consumers because that helps industry.

Forcing the Bureau to define 'an abusive financial practice' in just 15 days strikes me as almost reckless.

All of these financial things for which we are underpaid, or not paid as much, ends up in making, at the time that report said the largest segment of people living in poverty were older women.

As Madeleine Albright used to say, there's a very special place in hell for women who do not help other women.

But to write a rule, a major rule in 15 days, I think is unreasonable.

We lost roughly $18 trillion of wealth in this country.

One of the key lessons that we have learned from the financial crisis was that nonbank financial institutions that pose greater systemic risks need to be subject to stricter prudential standards.

The U.S. capital markets are the envy of the world. They offer investors liquidity, transparency, and flexibility.