54 Facts About Carolyn Maloney

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Carolyn Jane Maloney is an American politician who served as the US representative for from 2013 to 2023, and for from 1993 to 2013.

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Carolyn Maloney was the first woman to represent New York City's 7th Council district.

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Carolyn Maloney was the first woman to chair the Joint Economic Committee.

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On November 20,2019, Carolyn Maloney was formally chosen to succeed Cummings.

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Carolyn Maloney Jane Bosher was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 19,1946.

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Carolyn Maloney was elected to the New York City Council in 1982, defeating incumbent Robert Rodriguez in a heavily Spanish-speaking district based in East Harlem and parts of the South Bronx.

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Carolyn Maloney served as a council member for 10 years.

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Carolyn Maloney authored legislation creating the city's Vendex program, which established computerized systems tracking information on city contracts and vendors doing business with the city.

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Carolyn Maloney introduced the first measure in New York to recognize domestic partnerships, including those of same-sex couples.

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Carolyn Maloney was the first person to give birth while serving as a council member, and the first to offer a comprehensive package of legislation to make day care more available and affordable.

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In 1992, Carolyn Maloney ran for Congress in what was then the 14th district.

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Carolyn Maloney benefited from Bill Clinton's strong showing in the district.

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The core of Carolyn Maloney's district was the Upper East Side, an area with a history of electing moderate Republicans.

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In 2004, Carolyn Maloney faced a potential Democratic primary challenge from Robert Jereski, a former Green Party political candidate and unsuccessful candidate for delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention on the slate of Dennis Kucinich.

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Jereski opposed the Iraq War while Carolyn Maloney initially voted for the resolution to authorize force; she later renounced the war, including at a town hall meeting in her district with antiwar Congressman John Murtha, where her comments made headlines.

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In December 2008, Carolyn Maloney hired a public-relations firm to help bolster her efforts to be named by Governor David Paterson as Hillary Clinton's successor in the US Senate.

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Carolyn Maloney toured parts of the state, but was overshadowed by Caroline Kennedy's promotional tour for the same seat.

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In 2011, a Daily News survey found that Carolyn Maloney ranked first among New York's 28 representatives for activity with 36 proposed bills, resolutions, and amendments.

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Carolyn Maloney has supported Scientology's "New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project".

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In 2022, as chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Carolyn Maloney held a hearing that examined leading gun manufacturers' marketing and sales practices.

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Carolyn Maloney introduced a bill in October 2003 intended to enforce transparency in relation to military contracting in Iraq and subject the Coalition Provisional Authority to federal procurement law.

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In 2019, Carolyn Maloney introduced a bill that would require corporate entities to disclose the identities of beneficial owners to FinCEN, making it harder for them to hide assets and avoid taxes through a series of limited liability companies.

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In 2015 when roughly 33,000 responders and survivors were battling an assortment of ailments, Carolyn Maloney led the effort to extend the bill permanently.

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Carolyn Maloney has advocated for international women's health and family planning programs supported by the United Nations Population Fund.

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Carolyn Maloney has promoted scientifically discredited claims of a link between vaccines and autism.

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Carolyn Maloney partnered with The Floating Hospital and the New York City Housing Authority to establish a modular site to provide COVID-19 testing and vaccination services at Astoria Houses in northwest Queens.

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Carolyn Maloney serves on the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and is the Ranking Democratic member of the Joint Economic Committee.

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Carolyn Maloney previously chaired the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security.

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From 2009 to 2011, Carolyn Maloney chaired the Joint Economic Committee, the first woman to do so.

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Carolyn Maloney was the author of the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights, or the Credit CARD Act of 2009, while serving as chair of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, in the 110th Congress.

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Days after voting against cancellation of a $1 billion, 10-year subsidy plan for US sugar farmers within the 2007 US Farm Bill, Carolyn Maloney hosted a fundraising event that netted $9,500 in contributions from sugar growers and refiners, according to Federal Election Commission records.

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The Sunlight Foundation pointed out that among the 435 members of the House, Carolyn Maloney has the ninth-highest amount of investment in oil stocks.

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Carolyn Maloney received a perfect 100 rating from the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund in 2007, a perfect 100 rating from Environment America in 2008 and a perfect 100 from the League of Conservation Voters in 2008.

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Carolyn Maloney has been active on many other issues involving women, children and families since the beginning of her career.

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The effort to enact the bill was later the subject of a Lifetime Television movie, A Life Interrupted: The Debbie Smith Story, in which Carolyn Maloney was played by Lynne Adams.

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Carolyn Maloney introduced the Child Care Affordability Act of 2007 to increase access to child care by providing tax credits.

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Carolyn Maloney is the chief House sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment.

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In 2008 and again in 2009, Carolyn Maloney authored, and secured House passage of, a bill to provide four weeks of paid parental leave to federal employees.

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In March 2022, Carolyn Maloney sent US archivist David Ferriero a letter urging him to fulfill his statutory duty and publish the ERA.

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Carolyn Maloney has helped secure funding for major mass transit projects, resulting in the commitment of billions of federal dollars for New York State.

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Carolyn Maloney has been hailed as a champion of the Second Avenue Subway.

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In 2021, Carolyn Maloney protested the expansion of the New York Blood Center, a nonprofit biomedical research facility, from a three story-headquarters to a 16-story tower on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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On October 16,2001, Carolyn Maloney wore an Afghan burqa while giving a speech in the United States House of Representatives in support of Afghan women's rights and American military involvement against the Taliban.

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Carolyn Maloney subsequently defended it as being necessary to make her point.

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On July 20,2009, Carolyn Maloney apologized after saying the ethnic slur "nigger" while quoting a phone call she had received about US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in an interview with City Hall News.

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Carolyn Maloney apologized and dropped out of the race on August 7,2009, reportedly for different reasons.

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Carolyn Maloney claimed that her opponent, fellow incumbent Jerry Nadler, was "senile" and accused him of taking credit "for a woman's job".

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Many of Carolyn Maloney's activities were scrutinized, including her comments and legislation promoting the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.

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Carolyn Maloney told The New York Times that she thought he should not run in 2024.

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Carolyn Maloney later apologized and said that Biden should run again, though she maintained her belief that he would not.

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Investigators alleged Carolyn Maloney had sought an invitation for herself after being cut from the invite list in 2016.

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Carolyn Maloney called former president of the Met, Emily Rafferty, to request an invitation, according to testimony Rafferty gave investigators.

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Investigators found that Carolyn Maloney might have requested an invitation to the 2020 Met Gala, citing an email thread with a staffer in which she asked whether she was invited and how to contact the Met's government affairs staffer.

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Carolyn Maloney's husband died on a climbing expedition in 2009, after climbing the world's sixth-tallest peak, Cho Oyu in Tibet.