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Nothing is more important to me than the quality of life in my district, and I am proud of the work I have done to improve infrastructure, preserve historic neighborhoods, fight for better zoning and create schools in my district. Whether working to create an academically rigorous public high school on the Upper East Side, seeking to restore the crumbling Queens seawall or fighting for a full build Second Avenue Subway, my first priority has always been to make my district a better place to live.
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New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) issued the following statement celebrating Black History Month, which occurs every February and pays tribute to the many contributions of the African-American community:
Queens, NY – Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) urged the passage of a full-year extension of President Obama’s payroll tax cut. This measure, which would cut an employee’s share of payroll taxes from 6.2 to 4.2 percent, would save each Queens worker an average of $531 over the next year – a tax cut of $1062 for a typical, two-wage-earner family. The House-Senate Joint Economic Committee, of which Maloney is a member and former chair, released a report today outlining the county-by-county benefits of a full-year payroll tax cut.
A Congressional conference committee is currently working on a compromise bill to extend the payroll tax cut, which Congress originally passed in 2010 and was extended for two months in December.
“There are a great many Queens families who could really use an extra $1,062 in their pockets this year – and they shouldn’t have to wait any longer for a full-year extension of the President’s payroll tax cut. In addition, we need to provide an extension of unemployment benefits and give doctors who serve Medicare patients the reassurance of a ‘doc fix’ that prevents a huge cut in their revenues.
“It’s time for Congress to get moving and finally address these issues, which are among the most important to the American people,” said Maloney.
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New York, NY – Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) urged the passage of a full-year extension of President Obama’s payroll tax cut. This measure, which would cut an employee’s share of payroll taxes from 6.2 to 4.2 percent, would save workers who live in Manhattan or on Roosevelt Island an average of $768 over the next year – a tax cut of $1,536 for a typical, two-wage-earner family. The House-Senate Joint Economic Committee, of which Maloney is a member and former chair, released a report today outlining the county-by-county benefits of a full-year payroll tax cut.
New York, NY - Today, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, and members of the East Side community joined to speak out against the City's move, reported this week, to seek competitive bids to construct a massive maritime garbage transfer station (MTS) on the East River waterfront despite the City's failure to secure the necessary permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) to move the project forward. This week they joined with other elected officials to write to the NYC Department of Sanitation expressing their opposition to the City’s move (see below).
Astoria, NY – U.S. Army veteran and Astoria resident Robert Song will be in the audience tomorrow night as President Obama delivers his 2012 State of the Union address. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) invited Song, who served our country in Afghanistan, to attend the address to thank him for his service to our nation. Maloney joined a group of House members, led by Reps. Marcia Fudge of Ohio and Tim Walz of Minnesota, who invited veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to this year’s address, as a show of Congress’s solidarity in support of our nation’s veterans.
Long Island City, NY – On Friday, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) joined U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas, New York District Director Andrea Quarantillo, Commissioner Fatima Shama of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assemblywoman Grace Meng, Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Councilman Daniel Dromm, and Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras at the opening of the new USCIS office in Long Island City – the first facility of its kind in New York City outside of Manhattan.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) encouraged constituents to take advantage of free tax preparation services available through the IRS Free File program.
Queens Leaders Hail $500K Federal Planning Grant for Zone 126 Program to Help Kids at Astoria Houses
Astoria, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Borough President Helen Marshall, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, City Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., and Astoria Houses Tenants’ Association Leader Claudia Coger today joined the directors of Zone 126 Promise Neighborhood and The Elmezzi Foundation to announce that Zone 126 has secured a new, $500,000 Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The Elmezzi Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting disadvantaged communities, created Zone 126 to improve educational opportunities for the children of western Queens.
New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) today hailed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s selection of a joint bid by Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a new applied-sciences campus on Roosevelt Island. The project, which is slated to cost approximately $2 billion, will ultimately house more than 2,000 students and 300 faculty members in a new, 2 million square foot campus. Roosevelt Island is located in the 14th Congressional District, which Maloney represents; the Congresswoman has been a strong supporter of locating the new campus on the Island.
NEW YORK, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney today announced that the New York District of the United States Postal Service (USPS) has removed the Roosevelt Island Station post office from the Postal Service’s discontinuance list. She received the notice today from the USPS’ headquarters in Washington, DC, which wrote to her office, “The New York District has removed the Roosevelt Island Station from the Post Office discontinuance list. After careful evaluation of the data, it was determined that it would not be feasible to close the office at this time.”