Sean Patrick Maloney

I am saying that it does not address what we are debating now, which is the Meyers-Collins amendment, which goes to the heart of procurement reform, the procurement debate, which the Small Business Administration and so many other small…

exactly 1 month ago today, I publicly congratulated Speaker Gingrich for his historic New Hampshire handshake with President Clinton. The Speaker agreed to establish a nonpartisan commission that would write campaign and political reform…

I rise this morning to commend President Clinton for vetoing a bill that took food out of the mouths of children, heat out of the homes of the elderly, and trees out of national forests. The bill cut student loans and summer jobs for young…

I support the rule. The new majority has a case of special interest amnesia. The special interests and polluters claim they are overregulated. So the new majority is forgetting the days when our rivers burned, when fish and wildlife…

if passed, the Republican contract's war on children will have a devastating impact on New York City. The Republican contract would cut assistance for children across the board including large reductions in: school lunches and breakfasts…

I do not make a habit of defending the Contract With America. But when this House passed the line-item veto last Monday night, important language from the contract was not included. And that is bad news for the American taxpayer. The bill…

there has been much rhetoric in this House about helping working families. Yet that rhetoric rings hollow when there is vocal opposition to raising the minimum wage. Where I come from, if you work full time making only $4.25 an hour, you…

Mr. Chairman, I rise very strongly in support of the amendment offered by my distinguished colleagues from the great States of New York and Wisconsin. The line item veto bill addresses the deficit by giving the President the power to cut…

Mr. Speaker, everyone knows that raising a child is the responsibility of both parents, so it is a national disgrace that we collect only 18 percent of all child support cases. Everyone knows that establishing paternity will increase…

I rise to state my reluctant opposition to H.R. 5, the Unfunded Mandates Relief Act. I am reluctant to oppose H.R. 5 because I think that its basic purpose is sound and important. Almost everyone in this body agrees that something must be…

the President called for a smaller, leaner, smarter government. I think we all agree. So today I am introducing a bill to eliminate the dumbest program in the entire Federal Government, the Civilian Marksmanship Program. This piece of…

my amendments would add to the list of exemptions, children. Surely if we are exempting seniors and social security, we should give the same support protection to our children. I regret, Mr. Chairman, that a bill of this magnitude was not…

I agree very much that we should know the costs of mandates and programs. I voted for a bill last year in the committee that required a cost analysis for every single program. But if the gentleman is so certain that the waivers and the…

I am reluctant to oppose H.R. 5, because I think that its basic purpose is sound and important. Gone are the days when Congress can heap miles of mandates upon State and local governments without regard to what these requirements cost. Let…

this was my amendment, and it is a printing record error. The Republicans voted against exempting the most vulnerable citizens in our society, children, that cannot vote, cannot speak for themselves in the unfunded mandates bill. But it is…