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Congress should be working to reduce crime by keeping dangerous weapons off our nation’s streets and ensuring that criminals pay their debts to society. I have been an outspoken advocate for strong gun control laws during my tenure in Congress. Additionally, I introduced legislation, "The Debbie Smith Act," that was signed into law to ensure that DNA evidence is processed in a timely manner so that rapists are put behind bars.

Legislation

07/28/2011 - H.R. 2688, Runaway Reporting Improvement Act of 2011 [112th Congress]

07/15/2011 - H.R. 2554, Stop Gun Trafficking and Strengthen Law Enforcement Act of 2011 [112th Congress]

04/13/2011 - H.R.1523, SAFER Act of 2011 [112th Congress]

03/09/05 - H.R.1193, Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2005

02/09/05 - H.R.714, Protecting the Rights of Workplace Victims of Violence

01/20/04 - H.R.3703, Protecting the Rights of Workplace Victims of Violence [108th Congress]

01/27/03 - H.R.374, Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2003 [108th Congress]

09/10/01 - H.R.2874, Debbie Smith Act [107th Congress]

02/14/01 - H.R.682, Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2001 [107th Congress]

01/30/01 - H.R.284, Protecting the Rights of Workplace Victims of Violence [107th Congress]

04/13/00 - H.R.4317, Hate Crime Statistics Improvement Act of 2000 [106th Congress]

10/19/99 - H.R.3106, Employer Liability for Gender-Related Violence Act of 1999 [106th Congress]

04/15/97 - H.R.1332, Employer Liability for Gender-Related Violence Act of 1997 [105th Congress]

Documents/Reports

03/09/04 - Letter To Sen. Majority Leader Frist Regarding Debbie Smith Act

More on Criminal Justice

Dec 4, 2014 Press Release
“The Justice Department is right to open a civil rights investigation into the tragic death of Eric Garner. There is something terribly wrong with our system if we cannot get an indictment in a death that the NYC Medical Examiner ruled a homicide. To say that it’s not even worth having a trial to determine if the officers involved have committed a crime is shocking and creates the impression that there are no limits on police action even when unarmed people are killed. (cont'd)
Dec 3, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON–Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) today released the following statement on the grand jury decision not to indict an NYPD office for the death of Eric Garner.

Oct 3, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON—Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) today released the following statement applauding Governor Cuomo and the State University of New York (SUNY) Board of Trustees on adopting a resolution to implement a comprehensive, system-wide and uniform set of practices to combat sexual assaults on SUNY campuses.

Oct 1, 2014 Press Release

NEW YORK – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney today announced that the President has just signed into law an extension of the Debbie Smith Act, a bill she authored which became law in 2004 and has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to address the nationwide rape kit DNA analysis backlog.

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