Carolyn Maloney

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise to express my strong support for H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. For over 3 years, the Trump administration has waged an assault on organized labor, limiting unions' ability to fairly represent the American workforce while undermining safeguards that protect against discrimination and unsafe working conditions. This bill will protect our Nation's workforce against this erosion of their rights. The PRO Act introduces meaningful, enforceable penalties for companies that violate workers' rights to unionize, streamlines access to justice for workers who suffer retaliation, facilitates collective bargaining, and increases transparency in labor relations. Our Nation was not built by gold or silver but was built by labor. Protecting the rights of workers to organize strengthens our workforce, our economy, and our Nation. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this important bill.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 5214) to amend title 5, United States Code, to prevent fraud by representative payees.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the measure before us.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act is a commonsense bipartisan bill that would protect recipients of Federal pensions from unscrupulous representatives who use the money for their own benefit instead of the retirees'. Currently, representative payees can receive pension benefits on behalf of a recipient who is a minor, is designated mentally incompetent, or has another disability. Embezzlement or conversion of Social Security and veterans benefits by a representative payee is a Federal felony. However, there is no Federal penalty in current law for representative payees who embezzle or convert Federal retirement benefits to their own use. The Representative Payee Fraud Prevention Act would close this loophole and apply the same penalties to those representative payees who misuse Federal pension benefits. We must ensure that those who have spent their careers in public service receive the benefits they have earned. I want to thank my friend and colleague, Representative Tlaib, for her hard work, along with Representative Meadows. It is a bipartisan effort on this important issue. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense measure, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Tlaib).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. 5214. I thank Elijah Cummings for his hard work on this bill, too, and my colleagues, Mr. Meadows and Ms. Tlaib, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3830) to provide taxpayers with an improved understanding of Government programs through the disclosure of cost, performance, and areas of duplication among them, leverage existing data to achieve a functional Federal program inventory, and for other purposes, as amended.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the measure before us.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I support this bill and would like to thank Congressmen Walberg and Cooper for their hard work on it. The Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act is a bipartisan and commonsense solution that would help identify areas of inefficiency in the Federal Government. The bill would create an inventory of Federal programs that would be published on a government website and updated regularly. The information in the inventory would also be archived. Previous attempts at getting information from agencies on Federal programs have yielded incomplete and varied results, since agencies often have different ways of defining Federal programs. This bill aims to provide streamlined and uniformed insight into the activities of programs governmentwide. The Taxpayers Right-to-Know Act would require agencies to report on the spending, authorization, and purpose of a Federal program's activities. Information would also be required on any awards of financial assistance. Access to enhanced information would result in greater transparency into duplicative or inefficient programs. This bill would also provide a means to test a way in which this comprehensive inventory of Federal programs would be achieved across the Federal Government. It would require the Office of Management and Budget to report on how existing agency data would be used to create the program inventory or explain how the data will be presented and the results of a pilot program. Mr. Speaker, I support this good government measure, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from North Carolina has no further speakers, I am prepared to close.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time, and I urge passage of H.R. 3830, as amended.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Yes, I yield to the gentleman.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. 3830, as amended, and yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 2382) to amend title 5, United States Code, to repeal the requirement that the United States Postal Service prepay future retirement benefits, and for other purposes.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the measure before us.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, the bill before us, the U.S. Postal Service Fairness Act, which I am a very proud cosponsor, would make a small but very important change to help address the dire financial condition of the Postal Service. Common law requires the Postal Service to prefund the healthcare costs of its future retirees decades into the future. We are aware of no other entity, public or private, that faces this type of onerous financial burden. This mandate has cost the Postal Service billions of dollars since it was first imposed 14 years ago. The Postal Service has not made a payment into this fund since 2012. This bill won't solve all the Postal Service's financial problems. Eliminating the mandate will take some paper liabilities off the books of the Postal Service, but it will do nothing to improve its cash position. Without major structural reforms, the Postal Service will run out of cash in about 4 years. At that point, it will not be able to pay its own workers, and mail delivery would simply cease. The Postal Service has taken significant steps to control its costs, including shrinking its workforce by close to 300,000 employees over the past 20 years. Yet, it has incurred net annual losses for 13 straight years. The Postal Service currently funds universal mail service to nearly 159 million delivery points solely through the sale of postage. It is required to expand its network to deliver mail to approximately 1 million new addresses every year, even as the volume of mail continues to decline by a projected 45 billion mail pieces over the next decade. So while I support this bill, more must be done to stabilize the finances of this important American institution on which so much of our population relies. The Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Connolly in particular, is working on comprehensive legislation to do just that. We will continue to work on comprehensive legislation after this bill passes. Finally, I thank my good friend, Mr. DeFazio, for his tireless, passionate advocacy for this bill. I also thank Mr. Reed and Mr. Fitzpatrick, on the other side of the aisle, as well as Ms. Torres Small, for all of their hard work. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense measure, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), the author of the legislation.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Connolly), the distinguished subcommittee chairman.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from the great State of Michigan (Mrs. Lawrence).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer).

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch), my good friend and colleague.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I urge passage of H.R. 2382, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3941) to enhance the innovation, security, and availability of cloud computing services used in the Federal Government by establishing the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program within the General Services Administration and by establishing a risk management, authorization, and continuous monitoring process to enable the Federal Government to leverage cloud computing services using a risk-based approach consistent with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 and cloud-based operations, and for other purposes, as amended.

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the measure before us.