New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-New York) condemned the study authored by Al-Mutawakel Taha, a senior official with the Ministry of Information in Ramallah and posted on the Palestinian Authority’s website, which denies the historical connection between the Western Wall and Judaism.  The Western Wall is traditionally known as the only remaining wall of the Second Temple, built by the Jews during the reign of King Darius circa 520 BCE, renovated by King Herod the Great in 19 BCE and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Ever since, unless prevented by ruling authorities, Jews have visited Jerusalem to pray at the Wall.  In his report, Taha wrote the Western wall is a "Muslim wall and an integral part of al-Aqsa mosque and Haram al-Sharif" and claimed that Jews only began worshipping at the site in 1917 at the time of the Balfour Declaration.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, today released a letter signed by a bipartisan group of 29 House members urging Senate leaders to allow the Zadroga Act to proceed to a vote in the Senate without a filibuster. 

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) hailed the findings of a comprehensive, nine-month study prepared by the U.S. Department of Defense on servicemembers’ attitudes toward the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy barring openly gay, lesbian or bisexual persons from serving in the military, and again urged the Senate to move quickly to repeal the law.

WASHINGTON, DC-- Representatives Sander Levin (D-MI), Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) today sent letters to Commissioner Douglas Shulman of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) urging him to reverse a ruling that denies equipment used to help women breast feed as a health care expense-- excluding them from coverage under flexible health spending accounts and making them non-deductible on tax returns.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, released the following joint statement on the agreement reached today on the lawsuits filed by more than 10,500 workers who participated in rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero:

Washington, D.C. – This week, a bipartisan group of New York Representatives wrote to federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urging him to transfer to New York transit projects -including the Second Avenue Subway, East Side Access, and the new Moynihan Station- $3 billion in federal funding that had been slated for the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project, which was canceled in October by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Republicans blocked legislation to extend federal unemployment benefits for three months, despite the positive impact that unemployment benefits have in stimulating the economy. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) voted for the legislation, which would have prevented an estimated 160,000 unemployed workers in New York State, including 95,000 in New York City, from losing their benefits by the end of the year.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney today urged Queens residents who think they may have missed their tax refund check to contact the IRS immediately, either by telephone at 1-800-829-1954 or on the Internet by clicking on the Where’s My Refund? button on www.irs.gov. The IRS reports that the tax refund checks of 1,231 Queens residents, worth a total of more than $2 million, were returned to the agency because of mailing address errors.