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A group of House Republicans from New York are calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate whether the state’s directive on COVID-19 patients returning to group homes violated civil rights and if the state accurately reported coronavirus deaths in these facilities.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis wasn’t alone in her thinking when she asked a simple question during a press conference at the Staten Island Skating Pavilion (SISP) in Charleston on Monday evening: Why is it OK for the venue to host 200 people (at 50 percent) free skating on a Friday night, but not for 12 youth hockey players to compete on the same ice in game competition?
March is Women’s History Month and a good time to reflect on whether we have moved beyond the idea, as Condoleezza Rice once said, that girls can be leaders to the expectation they should be leaders. If last fall’s election is any indication, we surely have.
One of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s harshest critics blasted the governor again Sunday, implying he was a hypocrite for refusing to resign after facing more accusations of sexual harassment that brought Cuomo’s list of accusers to at least five women.
The borough’s new congressional representative has introduced her first bill, legislation aimed at lowering tolls for Staten Islanders using money generated through split tolling.
Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis took the lead as a group of GOP freshmen blasted the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said she looks forward to assisting in bringing accountability, transparency and oversight of COVID-19 relief in her appointment to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) was the only freshman member of congress appointed to the subcommittee.
As a new Member of Congress, President Biden’s current $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package puts me in a quandary. While there are many components of the bill that I support, like providing aid to restaurants and small businesses that were mandated to close and providing assistance for the unemployed, and returning taxpayer money to citizens in the form of a “stimulus” check, it is in no way tailored to the specific needs of our nation or its struggling citizens.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., had should have called out Gov. Andrew Cuomo sooner for his mishandling of the coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said Saturday.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis R-N.Y., blasted New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on "America Reports" Thursday, claiming that "nobody is surprised" that he allegedly threatened lawmakers over questions about his role in his administration's nursing home scandal.