Ranking Member

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First elected to Congress in 1992, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney is recognized as a national leader with extensive accomplishments in the areas of financial services, national security, the economy, women’s rights and more. She has authored more than 70 measures that have been signed into law, either as stand-alone bills or as language incorporated into larger bills. She is the Ranking Democrat on the Joint Economic Committee, a senior member of both the House Financial Services Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and serves as regional whip for the Democratic Caucus.

Maloney’s career has been a series of firsts. She is the first woman to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District; the first woman to represent New York City’s 7th Council District (where she was the first woman to give birth while in office); and became the first woman to chair the Joint Economic Committee in 2009.

When Maloney became JEC Chair in January, 2009, the economy was still reeling under the shocks of the Great Recession. Under her leadership, the JEC closely monitored the employment situation and tracked its rebound. The Committee held close to 50 hearings and issued dozens of reports with an emphasis on creating jobs and reducing unemployment. Maloney took particular interest in how the economy affected women. The JEC held a series of hearings and published reports that together provide a comprehensive assessment of women's role in the economy, to inform the next set of policy decisions about how best to create an economy that fully unleashes the economic potential of women.

A senior member of the House Financial Services Committee (and Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises), Maloney has worked to modernize financial services laws and regulations, strengthen consumer protections and institute more vigilant oversight of the safety and soundness of our nation’s banking industry. She served on the  conference committee for the landmark Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. She also introduced and fought for the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights (the Credit CARD Act), legislation to protect credit cardholders against abuses like “fee harvester” cards and retroactive rate increases. The bill was signed into law by President Obama in the spring of 2009.

As a co-founder of the House 9/11 Commission Caucus, Maloney helped author and pass legislation to create the 9/11 Comission and later to implement all of the commission’s recommendations to protect the nation from terrorism. She also introduced a bill to provide health care and compensation for 9/11 first responders, residents and workers near Ground Zero, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Act, which passed Congress in 2010 and was signed into law by President Obama January 2, 2011. The measure was permanently extened in December 18, 2015.

Maloney has long championed women’s issues both domestically and internationally. She helped pass legislation that targets the ‘demand’ side of sex trafficking; provides annual mammograms for women on Medicare; and the Debbie Smith Act, which increased funding for law enforcement to process DNA rape kits. Her legislation to create Women’s Health Offices in five Federal agencies was part of the landmark health care reform legislation signed by President Obama.

Time magazine described Maloney as a “tenacious, resilient legislator.” The Village Voice called her “a tiger in the House on every dollar due New York.” The New York Sun said “her entire career has been marked by a kind of personal courage.” And The New York Times said, “New York's Congressional delegation stands out for their moxie, kind of the way New Yorkers themselves often do. Among the brashest members is Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat of Manhattan.”