Tomasz "Tom" P Malinowski is an American politician and diplomat who was the US representative from New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 2019 to 2023.
33 Facts About Tom Malinowski
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Tom Malinowski was reelected in 2020 by a narrower margin against New Jersey State Senate's Minority Leader, Thomas Kean Jr.
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Tom Malinowski was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton High School in 1983, where he wrote for the school newspaper The Tower and was an intern in Senator Bill Bradley's office.
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Tom Malinowski received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and a Master of Philosophy from St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1991, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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Tom Malinowski worked as a special assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1988.
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Tom Malinowski worked for the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria, and later as a research assistant for the Ford Foundation in 1993.
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From 1994 to 1998, Tom Malinowski was a speechwriter for Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright as well as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State.
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From 1998 to 2001, Tom Malinowski served as senior director on the National Security Council at the White House.
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From 2001 to 2013, Tom Malinowski was the Washington director for Human Rights Watch.
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Tom Malinowski argued for the recognition of women's rights as a precondition to any peace talks with the Taliban.
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Tom Malinowski pushed for a no-fly zone in Syria during the ongoing civil war.
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Tom Malinowski opposed supplying Israel with cluster munitions because of their misuse in Lebanon and asked then-Senator Hillary Clinton to not support Israel's construction of a wall in the occupied West Bank.
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On July 8,2013, during Obama's second term, Tom Malinowski was nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
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Tom Malinowski testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 24,2013, and was confirmed by the US Senate on April 2,2014.
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In 2016, Tom Malinowski said the State Department planned to release a list of North Korean human rights abusers.
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Tom Malinowski backed the United Nations' efforts to investigate possible war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Tom Malinowski assisted with sanctioning Russian officials under the Magnitsky Act for human rights abuses.
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Tom Malinowski returned to Bahrain in December 2014 with the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
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On October 2,2017, Tom Malinowski announced his candidacy for New Jersey's 7th congressional district in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Tom Malinowski decided to run for Congress after the 2016 election of Donald Trump, which he saw as an indication that America was in "deep trouble".
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Tom Malinowski cited health care, immigration, diplomacy, environmental policy, and infrastructure as areas of focus.
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Tom Malinowski supports raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour as well as stronger collective bargaining rights and protections for workers.
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In terms of both absolute numbers and vote percentage, Tom Malinowski's race was the closest House race in the country to be won by a Democrat.
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When he took office in January 2019, Tom Malinowski became the first Democrat to represent the 7th since 1956.
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Tom Malinowski was the first member of the New Jersey House delegation to call to begin the impeachment inquiry against Trump in May 2019.
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Tom Malinowski endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in January 2020.
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Tom Malinowski advocated for accountability related to Saudi Arabia's role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Tom Malinowski's work contributed to the release of the Khashoggi Report and the subsequent Khashoggi ban.
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Tom Malinowski was appointed to the conference committee that finalized the bill.
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Tom Malinowski failed to disclose the trades within the period of time required by federal law; he said the failure to disclose the trades was an error.
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Two complaints were filed against him with the Office of Congressional Ethics, which announced in October 2021 that it found "substantial reason to believe" that Tom Malinowski had violated federal laws designed to defend against conflicts of interest.
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Tom Malinowski moved to Rocky Hill, New Jersey, close to where he grew up, in September 2017.
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Tom Malinowski has faced charges related to driving on a suspended license.