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As Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, I will continue to aggressively push to address the serious economic crisis our country faces. The Committee will focus on the economic crisis and recession as they unfold, and will be actively involved with crafting our path to recovery.
The Joint Economic Committee, established under the Employment Act of 1946, was created by Congress to review economic conditions and to analyze the effectiveness of economic policy. As Chair, I am committed to providing an accurate and up to date picture of our economy by holding hearings and releasing reports that review crucial aspects of our nation’s economic policy. Each week, the JEC’s staff prepares the Weekly Economic Digest. The Digest tracks and analyzes the trends of key economic indicators, such as employment, productivity, inflation, retail sales, housing starts, and the financial markets. Members of Congress and others find the digest useful as a quick reference for recent statistics on the economy.
Legislation
03/09/95 - H.R.1183, Social Security Sanctions Reform Act [104th Congress]
08/06/93 - H.R.2698, Retroactive Income Tax Increase Prohibition Act [103rd Congress]
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New York, NY – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) today called for a restoration of emergency unemployment benefits that have expired for 110,000 New Yorkers and 1.3 million nationwide. She was joined by Rep. Jerry Nadler (NY-10), Organizing for Action New York, representatives from New York labor unions and area residents affected by the expiration of benefits.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), former chair of the Joint Economic Committee, today issued the following statement after the Department of Labor announced that the economy added 162,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent in July:
WASHINGTON, DC – New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D), Jerrold Nadler (D), and Peter King (R) today sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate and President Obama asking that the programs created by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act be exempted from the automatic budget cuts mandated by the 2011 debt-limit bill if no agreement is reached in deficit negotiations between the President and Congress to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.”
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-12-NY), former Chair of the Joint Economic Committee and Ranking Democratic member of JEC in the next Congress, issued the following statement on the news that the economy created 146,000 private sector jobs in November, reducing the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), senior member of the House Financial Services Committee and immediate past Chair of the Joint Economic Committee, offered the following statement on today’s jobs report: