Carolyn Maloney

House Votes To End Census Survey Done Since Jefferson's Time

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Census, Census Cuts, Video, Budget Cuts, Chaka Fattah, Daniel Webster, 112th Congress, American Community Survey, American Community Survey Cut, House Republicans, Carolyn Maloney, Steve King, Politics News

WASHINGTON –- The House voted Wednesday to eliminate the detailed surveys of America that have been conducted by the Census Bureau since the nation...

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Undocumented Immigrant Offers To Leave, Gets Locked Up Instead

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Politics News, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Refugees, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrant, Refugees, Asylum, Deportation, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Kalsum Pangkey, a 56-year-old undocumented immigrant from Indonesia, went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on April 25 to report that ...

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Meryl Streep-Backed Museum Project In Jeopardy

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Susan Collins, Video, Meryl Streep, Sen. Susan Collins, National Mall, Washington DC, National Women's History Museum, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Support from donors and elected officials for a National Women's History Museum appears to have evaporated after a recent Huffington Pos...

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Scandal Highlights Lack Of Women In Secret Service

AP | ERIC TUCKER | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Secret-Service, Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, Video, Secret Service Scandal, Secret Service Diversity, Secret Service Women, Ed Donovan, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal – and male. A spiraling prost...

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Congresswoman Visits Church Serving As Sanctuary For Immigrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Indonesian Refugees, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Deportation, Refugees, Asylum, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Three men who fled persecution in their native Indonesia are now living in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation, as its pastor and members of Cong...

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Darrell Issa Apologizes For Calling Congresswoman A Liar

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.27.2012

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who notoriously presided over a mostly-male hearing on President Barack Obama's contraception mandate and rejected Democ...

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Hell Hath No Fury Like Women Scorned

Donna Henes | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Abortion, Birth Control, Rape, Republican War Against Women, Contraception, Transvaginal Ultrasound, Newt Gingrich, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

You've heard the saying, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Well, ladies, it is time for some serious fury! And men, I am talking to you, too -- all fathers, sons, brothers, lovers, and friends of women.

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Pollster: There's No Democrat Conspiracy On Sandra Fluke

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Obama Birth Control, Sandra Fluke Contraception, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Video, Celinda Lake, Sandra Fluke Birth Control, Anita Dunn, Darrell Issa, Reproductive Rights, Sandra Fluke, Obama Contraception Rule, Obama Contraception, Bill O'Reilly, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Pollster Celinda Lake responded on Friday to the rumblings of conservative commentators who claim the Obama administration planted Georgetown law stud...

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One Step Backwards, One Step Forward

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Sen. James Inhofe, Marine Transfer Station, Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, Epa, Eric Schneiderman, Residents for Sane Trash Solutions, Green Activism, Congressional Review Act, Carolyn Maloney, Liz Kruger, Clean Air Nyc, Asthma, Nyc Clean Air, Green News

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on behalf of New York and ten other states with the mission of compelling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution.

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Gender War Over Birth Control Boosts Democratic Campaigns

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 02.21.2012

Where are the women? The question, posed by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to an all-male panel at Thursday's House Oversight Committee hearing on a...

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WATCH: There Were How Few Women At The Contraception Rule Hearings?

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 02.17.2012

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How did hearings on whether religious organizations should be required to offer women contraception end up taking place with so few women in the room?...

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Why Post50 Women Will Lead the "Occupy ERA" Movement

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Women's Rights, Women, The Best of Everything After 50, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Barbara Grufferman, huffpost50, Fifty News, Carolyn Maloney, Baby Boomers, Boomers, Fifty News

Can a country that prides itself as the leader and protector of democracy in the world, and one which implores other countries to include the word "women" in their constitutions (Afghanistan and Iraq), still not protect the rights of women in its own?

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Iran Threat Reduction Act Actually Enhances Threat of War

Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Ed Markey, Ben Ray Lujan, Yvette Clark, Sam Farr, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Obama Administration, Diplomacy, Karen Bass, Janice Hahn, Laura Richardson, Chaka Fattah, Jared Polis, Jerrold Nadler, Emmanuel Cleaver, Iran, Frederica Wilso, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Hank Johnson, Jr., Rosa DeLauro, David Cicilline, Elijah Cummings, Steve Cohen, Charles Rangel, Corrine Brown, Iran Sanctions, Michael Honda, Jesse Jackson, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Frank Pallone, William Clay, Jan Schakowsky, Peter Welch, Linda Sanchez, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Robert Brady, Mazie Hirono, David Loebsack, Louise Slaughter, World News

Never in the history of this country has Congress ever restricted the right of the White House or State Department to meet with representatives of a foreign state, even in wartime. If this measure passes, it will establish a dangerous precedent.

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Get Your Stories Out!

Connie Lawn | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Women in Business, Congress, Euro-American Women's Council, Artemis Awards, Connie Lawn, US Congress, Carolyn Maloney, Women News

Get your stories out -- the failures as well as the successes!

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High Noon in the House

Carolyn Maloney | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Gun Control, Gun Control Laws, Carolyn B. Maloney, Concealed Weapons, Concealed Weapons Permits, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

The dangerous National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011, would authorize a person who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm in one state, like Arizona, to carry a concealed handgun in another state where the laws may be very different, like my home state of New York.

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$2.8 Billion Sept. 11 Fund Opens Doors

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The new September 11 Victim Compensation Fund took its first major step to begin helping people sickened and dying from the rescue and r...

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Ten Years on, Sick Ground Zero Workers Still Without Proper Care

Michelle Chen | Posted 11.10.2011

Read More: 9/11 First Responders, World Trade Center, Health Care, Ground Zero, Carolyn Maloney, Zadroga, September 11, 9/11 Cancer, 9/11 Firefighters, Decade After 9/11 - Lives Affected, September 11 Anniversary, Decade After 9/11 - Coping, Politics News

For thousands of workers, this anniversary of 9/11 is an especially deep measure of loss -- not just the immediate loss of life, but years of lost opportunities to make still-neglected victims whole.

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

Henry J. Stern | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Asphalt Green, Solid Waste, Upper East Side, Marine Transfer Facility, New York City Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Gifford Miller, New York City Council, Marine Transfer Station, Carolyn Maloney, New York News

For some years, New York City has been planning to construct a marine transfer station on the Manhattan side of the East River. Rhetoric on both sides has next to nothing to do with the merits of the project.

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National Women's History Museum Placates Conservatives To Get Bill Passed In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women, Women's History Month, Womens History, Historical Revisionism, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Smithsonian, Motherhood, Carolyn Maloney, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Conservatives, Margaret Sanger, Meryl Streep, Roe v. Wade, National Women's History Museum, Ralph Appelbaum, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Nearly a year after two alpha males on Capitol Hill slew a bill to allow a National Women's History Museum here, the head of the nascent...

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9/11 Health Czar: No Cancer Link To Ground Zero

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Veterans of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and cleanup who are stricken with cancer had their hopes dashed Tuesday -- at least temporari...

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The GQ Candidate Release Party (SLIDESHOW)

HuffingtonPost.com | Paige Lavender | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Novels, The GQ Candidate, Dc, Jamal Simmons, Keli Goff, Arianna Huffington, Artur Davis, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Blogger and political commentator Keli Goff was the guest of honor Thursday night at the Park Hyatt Hotel to celebrate the release of he...

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Gay Pride Parade Unlike Any Other in NYC: We Can Marry Now

Jim Luce | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Chris Quinn, Lgbt, New York State, Mike Bloomberg, New York Life, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Empire State, Dykes on Bikes, Gay Pride, Scott Stringer, John Lee, Fifth Avenue, Hetrick - Martin Institute, New Yorkers United for Marriage, Wells Fargo, Tom Duane, Politics, Csr, New York City, Carolyn Maloney, Gay Marriage, Nyc Pride Parade, Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps, Corporate America, Gay & Lesbian Issues, Sage, Republicans, Chuck Schumer, Mastercard, Heritage of Pride, Delta, Macy?S, New York News

A sea change in New York. Although I have attended the NYC Pride Parade since 1983 -- many as a marshal -- this one was different.

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Democrats Reintroduce Equal Rights Amendment Following Walmart Ruling

Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Equal Rights Amendment, Walmart, Gender Discrimination, Walmart Class Action Suit, Sex Discrimination, Robert Menendez, Carolyn Maloney, Era, Women News

On the heels of the Supreme Court's controversial ruling that female employees could not bring a class-action sex discrimination suit against Wal-mart...

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Let's Put It in Writing: Women Are Equal

Carolyn Maloney | Posted 08.10.2011

Most Americans believe women already have the same rights as men under our Constitution. But sadly they are mistaken.

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Dear GOP: It's the Truth, Coming Home to Roost

Carolyn Maloney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathy Hochul Election, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Ny-26, Paul Ryan Medicare, Medicare, Kathy Hochul, Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

It is beyond ironic that after years of grossly misleading Republican TV ads about "death panels," "government takeovers" and other nonsense, the Republicans are now complaining about a Democratic candidate who simply tells the truth.

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