Congresswoman Maloney is the senior House member on the Joint Economic Committee (JEC). The JEC is a bicameral Congressional Committee that was established by the Employment Act of 1946, the same legislation that created the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

As senior House member of the JEC, Congresswoman Maloney plays a key role in helping to review economic conditions and analyze economic policy for the United States Congress.  Along with the JEC’s Vice Chairman, New York Senator Charles Schumer, Maloney has drawn attention to the failed economic policies of the Bush Administration that have contributed to our current economic woes: the mortgage and credit crisis, the enormous cost of the war in Iraq, skyrocketing gas and food prices, rising unemployment, record-setting public debt, and widening income disparities.

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