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Carolyn Maloney is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 12th congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held various leadership roles within Congress and is known for her advocacy on issues such as women's rights, economic equality, and gun control. Throughout her tenure, Maloney has been involved in significant legislative efforts, including those aimed at supporting the garment industry in New York City.
Fees should not be attached to unemployment benefits. Look, the taxpayers are paying for it to help Americans. Particularly these fees should not be attached by banks that are getting TARP money or being supported by the taxpayers' dollars.
Beyond working on mortgage reform, this committee is working on regulatory reform, including a discussion of creating a systemic risk regulator.
Congress worked closely with President Obama to swiftly pass the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act last month in order to stem job losses and put people back to work as quickly as possible.
Rising unemployment adds urgency for the Senate to act on the Helping Families Save Their Homes bill that just passed in the House of Representatives yesterday.
The gut-wrenching job losses in today's report highlight the misery and dislocation that American families have been enduring since the start of this recession more than a year ago.
Congress should seek ways to expand the law and to extend coverage to all workers and their families, including those led by same-sex couples.
One option to remedy this glaring inequity would be for Congress to pass the Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act.
How can you justify paying bonuses to managers who were running their company into the ground to the point that they were forced into a merger?
Couldn't this reasonably be described as looting the company prior to the merger?
But recently, Secretary Geithner said that we were shoring up banks not for the sake of the banks, but for the sake of American taxpayers.
Over the past 6 months, the Fed has been tremendously proactive in its efforts to preserve liquidity and help our economy to recover.
What gets me is we keep trying so many things, and what I am hearing from the public and what I hear from my colleagues in Congress is that the loans are not getting out to the public.
They would like to know how that money was spent and who were the counterparties and what were the guarantees.
We have to keep working, we have to pass it. There is a lot of push-back from the financial industry.
We have to keep working. We have to pass it. There is a lot of pushback from the financial industry.
The problem has been, credit card companies get away with whatever they want, as long as they put it in the fine print, right?
Exactly. They all have this provision that says they can raise the rate any time, any reason.
My question is, what has he been doing all this time? His job is to protect the American people. I don't see what he's proposing is any different from what he's been charged with from day one.
I rise today in strong support of the so-called Frank amendment to delete $1.2 billion in deficit spending for the Pentagon. Once again, Congress seems intent on fueling our constituents' anger over totally unnecessary deficit spending…
I rise in strong support of the resolution, and I commend the chairman for bringing this important bill to the floor and the gentleman from New Jersey and others for sponsoring it. Mr. Speaker, in my district in New York City I am proud to…
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