Sean Patrick Maloney

Reform week is here. The most important reform--campaign finance, will not get reformed. Everyone knows that money plays too much of a role in politics, everyone except the Republican Congress. Under their extreme bill, a wealthy…

Last winter I received a notice in the mail that my health insurance coverage, by law, would no longer cover abortion. It was one small notice in the mail but a giant step backwards for a woman's right to choose. As a Member of the other…

Under the Istook amendment, teenagers who are too afraid to consult their parents for advice will not get any advice at all. That could cost them their health, their future fertility, even their lives. We need a policy for the real world…

I rise in support of the Lowey-Castle amendment. Two years ago, the NRA waged a campaign against the President's crime bill, saying programs like shelters for battered women and rehab for drug addicts were nothing more than "pork." Now…

Mr. Chairman, if I had been here, I would have risen reluctantly in opposition to the amendment offered by my friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Brown], and in support of a 10-percent, $13 million Federal funding for the National…

First of all, there is no torture in New York and the crime rate has gone down dramatically with the anticrime bill that President Clinton initiated and that we passed. Second, I would just merely like to ask the gentleman how he justifies…

I do support the adoption bill, but it simply does not go far enough. What about the 400,000 children in foster care who are not candidates for adoption? As David Liederman of the Child Welfare League writes in today's New York Times…

I would just like to add to my colleague's statement that this is a very bipartisan effort. The lead sponsor is the gentlewoman from New York, Susan Molinari. We have 57 Republican cosponsors, and 63 Democrats cosponsors. It has been very…

in fact, the 1983 law still does not cover about 90 percent of all Federal housing, or 3.7 million units. This is an issue of fairness. My amendment today would give those seniors and disabled living in non-senior or disabled-designated…

my amendment only allows common household pets. It does not include exotic animals, reptiles or dangerous or menacing animals, but common household pets.

Senior citizens and people with disabilities should not be forced to choose between their pets and their opportunities to affordable housing. Mr. Chairman, under current Federal law, senior citizens living in federally assisted senior…

Currently, as my dear friend from New York knows, the Federal law allows seniors to have pets in federally designated senior housing and housing for the disabled. This merely extends that right to seniors and the disabled in regular…

the bill allows local housing authorities to come forward with the rules and regulations. The one thing that they cannot do is say absolutely under no circumstances can a senior citizen or a disabled person have a fine, quiet pet.

it would require every housing authority to allow pets for seniors and the disabled in all Federal housing, not just senior-designated, but it also allows the local housing authority to come forward with their own commonsense rules and…

in 1937 we made a commitment to provide decent, affordable housing to our Nation's lower income citizens. That is a commitment I am not willing to scrap. Public housing can work. It has been a tremendous success in New York City, where…

this bill is extreme. Three out of four Americans support the assault weapons ban. Two out of three gun owners support the assault weapons ban. This bill contradicts what the Republican majority claims they stand for. You cannot be…

I rise today to honor as my Woman of the Year a former Congressman, New York's tireless advocate for women, Bella Abzug. On behalf of women everywhere, I salute this remarkable woman, whose dedication and courage deserves recognition as we…

I first of all want to thank very much the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Bilirakis] for organizing this special order to celebrate Greek independence day. I am very fortunate and very pleased and privileged to represent Astoria, NY, one of…

I call on colleagues to support the Lowey amendment. This amendment attempts to correct ruthless public policy contained in this bill. For poor women, this bill would make fathers out of rapists. If this is the new majority's idea of…

today I am honored to rise with some of my colleagues in this special order to celebrate International Women's Day. This day is a celebration borne out of the fighting spirit of the women's labor movement in the great city that I am…

the shutdown of the Federal Government is a national disgrace. Yesterday the Senate acknowledged that enough was enough, that the point had been made, that the issue of a 7-year balanced budget was being actively negotiated, and that it…

for those of my colleagues who may have missed it, New York City is experiencing the steepest decline in violent crime since 1972. No one thought we could do it, but we did. With the help of the President's COPS Program, we have added well…

three decades ago the Democrats gave American seniors peace of mind when they created Medicare. Medicare led to a 50-percent drop in the number of seniors living at the poverty level. It led to a 50-percent increase in the number of…

one of the problems, when we say that it does not make us as competitive, No. 1, we dominate the world market with over 70 percent of sales. We have to remember that it is American tax dollars that create the research and development that…

my amendment deals with what sometimes lies within so-called procurement reform legislation. My amendment deals with a corporate subsidy in this bill that has nothing to do with procurement reform. The subsidy in question is the…