Now, as the United States faces the challenge of recovering from the first recession in 10 years, Rep. Maloney will work to ensure that the current Administration does not ignore the needs of America’s working families or continue to undermine the fiscal discipline of the past.

Since Rep. Maloney was elected to Congress in 1992:

• We’ve passed the Family and Medical Leave Act, a minimum wage increase, and the Violence Against Women Act.
• We cut crime with tougher enforcement, added more than 100,000 new community police officers, enacted a ban on assault weapons and the Brady law which has kept guns out of the hands felons, fugitives and stalkers.
• We have passed legislation that authorizes critical funding for processing the backlog of DNA evidence, for training Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners, and for training law enforcement in the collection and handling of forensic evidence, added coverage for cancer screening and cutting edge clinical trials. We've made a major investment in biomedical research. We made sure that people with disabilities could go to work without losing their health care, and that people could switch jobs without losing their coverage and we provided health coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program to two million previously uninsured children. Rep. Maloney has also continually succeeded in bringing home funding for the Second Avenue Subway.
• As chair of the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security, Rep. Maloney has worked with her colleagues to fund the government's response to the attacks on New York and the United States on September 11th and to provide needed funding to improve the security of Americans at home.

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