Sean Maloney (D-Ny-18)

LEGISLATOR US Representative SEAN MALONEY (D-NY-18)

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By Jim Myers for Bloomberg News New York Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney lists his priorities as strengthening the health and financial security of retirees, generating economic opportunity for families and balancing the budget “the right way.” “Creating jobs and growing the Hudson Valley economy are my top priorities,” he said on his House website. His approach includes streamlining the tax code, increasing small businesses’ access to capital and reducing government regulations he considers burdensome. Maloney said he fought to get a seat on the Agriculture Committee “because farming is vital to the Hudson Valley’s economy and our way of life.” Maloney, who worked in the Clinton White House, calls himself a “Bill Clinton Democrat.” In the House he affiliates with the centrist New Democrat Coalition, which traces its origins to the former president’s leadership of the Democratic Leadership Council. New Democrats in the House describe themselves as “a fiscally responsible, moderate bloc of lawmakers.” Maloney voted with Republicans a number of times on fiscal matters, including in October 2013 when the two parties had a budget standoff that led to a 16-day partial government shutdown. During that time, Republicans brought up piecemeal spending bills that contained funds for politically popular programs while refusing to take up and pass legislation to fund implementation of the 2010 health-care law. Maloney was one of about two-dozen Democrats who sided with Republicans on those votes. Later, he was in the minority of Democrats who voted to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. One of his reasons was that it would relieve the pressure of shipping crude oil by rail through the Hudson Valley, with its attendant safety issues. He received a 35 percent rating for 2013 from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and a score of 24 from the

© 2015 Bloomberg Finance L.P. All Rights Reserved He received a 35 percent rating for 2013 from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action, and a score of 24 from the American Conservative Union. Generally, scores from the two groups on opposite ends of the spectrum add to about 100. Maloney says he feels the need to be pragmatic in the positions he takes. “I don’t have the luxury of some sort of ideological rigidity,” Maloney told Hudson Valley magazine. “The job is not to be brilliant or partisan or shrill or to get yourself on TV. The job is to be useful.” He has focused on “working around the edges and making your taxes work for you in some tangible way,” he told the magazine. “Hitting singles and doubles.” Maloney supports abortion rights and, as the first openly gay member of the New York congressional delegation, same-sex marriage. He and his partner of more than two decades, Randy Florke, got married early in 2014. They have three adopted children. On guns, he has carved out a stance that supports ownership rights as well as changes that could address issues with the mentally ill and others who shouldn’t have easy access to firearms. “There are some common-sense things we can do,” Maloney told WAMC, Northeast Public Radio. “But we should start by saying that people have a Second Amendment right to own a gun, to defend themselves in their own home, and I respect that.” Maloney expressed support for universal background checks, an emphasis on identifying those suffering from a mental illness and addressing military-style high capacity magazine clips. “So because we can’t do everything doesn’t mean we can’t do anything,” he said. It took the freshman congressman only a day after his swearing-in to deliver his first floor speech -- on legislation to spend $9.7 billion to pay flood-damage claims related to Hurricane Sandy, the Poughkeepsie Journal reported. Maloney said the House custom is “to put off till tomorrow what should be done today, even when our fellow Americans are suffering,” according to the newspaper. Early Years Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, to American parents (his father was working in the lumber business), Maloney was reared in Hanover, New Hampshire, the youngest of six children. He received a bachelor’s in international relations and a law degree from the University of Virginia. After graduation, Maloney spent a year volunteering with a Catholic program in the coastal city of Chimbote, Peru. “At that time, it was a very poor area of about 300,000 or 400,000 people living in poverty around a couple of fish factories and a couple of steel mills,” he told the Poughkeepsie Journal. “So we just did very basic developmental work -- irrigation, sanitation, nutrition, literacy.” Back home, he worked on Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. After getting his law degree he worked in private practice, but joined up again with Clinton in 1996. Maloney served as a staff secretary and assistant to the president in the Clinton White House, which he credits for balancing the budget, paying down the debt and creating more than 800,000 jobs in New York. “One of the proudest days of my life was when I walked my dad into the Oval Office to meet my boss, President Clinton,” he said on his campaign website. Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have campaigned for Maloney. After leaving the White House, Maloney spent three years as the chief operating officer of Kiodex, a software firm that helped hedge funds manage commodity risks. Maloney later served as a senior staff member to two Democratic governors of New York, focusing on education and infrastructure issues. He oversaw 13 state agencies and departments, including those dealing with homeland security and emergency management operations. He mounted an unsuccessful campaign for New York attorney general in 2006, coming in third in the Democratic primary, which was won by Andrew Cuomo. In 2012, he ran for the 18th District House seat, seeking to unseat one-term Republican lawmaker Nan Hayworth. He won a five-way Democratic primary and then defeated Hayworth in November by about 4 percentage points. According to the Times Herald-Record newspaper of Middletown, New York, Hayworth’s campaign portrayed Maloney as a carpetbagger and political operative. Maloney, who was living mostly in Manhattan, bought a small house in Cold Spring, inside the district earlier in 2012. Maloney says his sexuality never became an election issue. The 2014 race was a Maloney-Hayworth rematch, and in the Democratic-leaning district, Maloney retained his seat by a slim margin in a good year for Republicans.

BIO FROM REPRESENTATIVE'S WEBSITE

From the Representative's Website Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney proudly represents New York's 18th district in the U.S. House of Representatives after he was first elected in November 2012. Sean currently serves on the House Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee which is important to creating jobs and boosting the economy in the Hudson Valley. His priorities in the 113th Congress include strengthening the health and financial security of America's retirees, creating economic opportunity for New York families, and balancing the budget the right way. Sean has a distinguished background in business and public service. Sean served as a senior advisor in President Bill Clinton's White House as part of a team that balanced the budget and paid down the debt, all while creating over eight hundred thousand jobs here in New York. When Sean left the White House, he built his own business from scratch. His high-tech startup created hundreds of New York jobs. Sean then served as a senior staff member to two Democratic governors of New York, focusing on education and infrastructure projects. He oversaw 13 state agencies and departments, including those responsible for all homeland security, state police and emergency management operations. Sean and Randy, his partner of over 20 years, have 3 children together. He currently resides in Cold Spring, NY.

PERSONAL PROFILE

COMMITTEES Birthdate 07/30/1966 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS House Committee on Agriculture Birthplace Quebec Education House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Political Party Democratic Party University of Virginia CAUCUSES Bachelor's Degree 1988 Marital Status Married Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus University of Virginia Spouse Randy Florke New York Defense Working Group JD 1992 Residence Cold Spring, NY Carbonated and Non-alcoholic Caucus Georgetown University Family 3 children

1997 - 2000 Staff Secretary, Office of William J Clinton 03-2011 - Present Partner, Orrick, Herrington &Sutcliffe 01-03-2013 - Present Representative:New York, (US)House of Representatives