New York, NY - Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) announced that she has introduced in the House the Small Business Job Creation Tax Act of 2010 (H.R.4585), legislation that would provide tax credits for small businesses that create jobs.  Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Robert Casey introduced the legislation in the Senate earlier this month.

(NEW YORK, NY) – Today Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) joined with leading human rights advocates and a prominent member of the clergy to protest the draconian “Anti-Homosexuality Law” proposed in the Ugandan parliament. Immediately following the protest held outside the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Uganda to the United Nations in Manhattan, Congresswoman Maloney delivered a letter to the Mission requesting that representatives of the Ugandan government meet with human rights advocates to discuss the depth and breadth of international opposition to the measure. She was joined at today’s news conference by representatives of leading human rights organizations, including Immigration Equality, the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch, and Human Rights First, as well as the Reverend Dr. Eugene Callender, former longtime pastor at St. James Presbyterian Church, Manhattan’s oldest African-American Presbyterian Church, who attended Thursday’s Congressional Prayer Breakfast at which President Barack Obama denounced Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan & Queens) issued the following statement today thanking President Barack Obama for speaking out against the “Anti-Homosexuality Law” proposed in the parliament of Uganda. The notorious and draconian legislation would apply criminal sanctions – including the death penalty – for the offense such “aggravated homosexuality” or LGBT advocacy.

New York, NY – Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan & Queens) today hailed the inclusion of $197 million for the Second Avenue Subway and $215 million for East Side Access in the Obama Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2011 Federal Transit Administration budget. Congresswoman Maloney has long championed the transit projects, which are both located almost entirely within New York’s 14th Congressional District that she represents.