Charlie Rose with Carolyn Maloney, David Martin & Gregory Vistica; Robert Pittman; David Blaine (May 23, 1997)
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Representative Carolyn Maloney said she hopes to introduce by the end of the year a measure that would grant green cards to 14 immigrants who lost family members on 9/11.
oyvayblog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Maybe the Republicans are getting some spine after all. First, as you can see in this video clip my uncle sent me, Senator Lindsey Graham makes mincemeat out of Eric Holder , who can't even answer the questions. In another instance, Congressman Kevin Brady from Texas didn't accept tax-cheat Geithner's blame-Bush excuses : "In a fiery exchange at Thursday's Joint Economic Committee hearing with...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner, speaking at a Joint Economic Hearing, got into a quite the tizzy with Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX). On one level, it's just two guys yelling at each other. On another level, it's a glimpse at why an idea as basic as "We should reform our profligate banking system" can break down when you run it through the political sausage factory. A taste of the skirmish, via Real...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) held a press conference yesterday with several of New York City's top women leaders to speak out against the House health care bill's anti-choice Stupak-Pitts amendment . Powerful women such as Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Gloria Steinem, Speaker of the NY City Council Christine Quinn, President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards, President of NARAL Pro-Choice NY Kelli Conlin,...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
By GottaLaff These two deserve kudos and extra crispy bonus donations: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) will join with other elected officials and national and local leaders of the women’s movement in New York on Monday to protest a provision in the House health care reform bill to limit federal funding for abortions . [...] Speakers at the news conference will...
The Daily Politics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Here's an invite to a fundraiser that was held in LA last night at the home of Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum on behalf of Jonathan Tasini, who is so far the lone 2010 primary challenger to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. From the host list, it's clear to see Tasini continues to enjoy support from the left wing of the Democratic Party - a similar situation to his last race in 2006 when he ran on an anti-war...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
There is much to praise in the ground breaking health care reform bill that just passed the House. It will provide an additional 36 million...
California Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
After the unemployment numbers were published this morning, even the NYTimes can’t sugarcoat what’s happening. Also after this month’s unemployment figures were released, Rep. Carolyn Maloney said that, yes, they’d pulled the economy back from the brink but that there’s still a long ways to go. NO KIDDING!!! Here’s the thing from the NYTimes’ article [...]
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Grammy-award winning singer Carole King has been raising her voice on the radio lately – not in song, this time, but in a plea for the Rocky Mountains. King hails from the mountains of Idaho; at the apex of her career, the Brooklyn native went looking for a place with fewer people and more space, and settled on a county in the center of the Gem State. She’s been active in the fight to...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Yesterday the House overwhelmingly passed-- though not without some tough fights-- Carolyn Maloney's H.R. 3639 , a much needed amendment to the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The idea was to establish an earlier effective date for the consumer protections inherent in the original bill. The credit card companies were none to keen to see that pass; and let me come...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Amid complaints about credit card interest rate spikes and new fees, US lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to speed up the implementation of sweeping new rules to guard against abusive practices. The House of Representatives approved the accelerated pace by an overwhelming 331-92 vote on Wednesday, but the legislation's fate in the Senate is unclear. "Card companies have redoubled many of the...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
C'mon, this is getting silly. Since more than half of the public companies are below the $75 million mark, this has potential to be very damaging to investors who are already beaten down. Companies are already doing audits so it's questionable how painful this argument really is. There have been enough problems related to audits (and the auditors, in particular) but to weaken the system any more seems...
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It looks like the elected officials who represent Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are bracing for the complex to default, and they're already reminding the complex's lenders--Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--about how the lenders themselves needed a bit of help last year. In a letter to Fannie and Freddie, the electeds--U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, Councilman Dan Garodnick, State Senator...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the administration's image as a champion for financial regulatory reform. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has been telling Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee that he supports amending the Investor Protection Act of 2009 --...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Penn Badgley celebrated his 23rd birthday on Halloween at 1Oak, where he ate a "Svedka birthday cake" (!) dressed as a "half-assed somebody." His girlfriend, Blake Lively, was dressed as a sexy flight attendant. Meanwhile, uncostumed co-star Leighton Meester performed with Weezer at the Hammerstein Ballroom, and some guy pulled a fake gun on Lindsay Lohan , to which she promptly...
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