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Seton Hall University—B.A.; Wagner University—M.B.A.
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Nicole Malliotakis was born in Manhattan, New York, on November 11, 1980, and is a Republican U.S. Representative from New York. Before Congress, she worked for New York Governor George Pataki, worked as a public relations professional, served in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 2020, and was a presidential campaign aide to U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in 2015-2016. She was elected to the 117th Congress in 2020 and reelected to succeeding Congresses.
Committee Assignments: House Committee on Ways and Means · Subcommittee on Tax · Subcommittee on Oversight · U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
Nicole Malliotakis emphasizes health-care affordability, access, and program integrity, including mental-health provider access, PBM transparency, Medicare beneficiary protections, and targeted access to care for seniors, caregivers, women, and chronic-disease patients. Her recent record includes sponsoring several health-related bills and co-sponsoring measures aimed at long-term-care visitation, menopause awareness, diabetes foot care, and contraception access.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis sponsored legislation categorized as Health that seeks to expand mental-health options for patients.
SourceMalliotakis sponsored a health bill focused on improving care or support related to the bill's LOVE Act framework.
SourceMalliotakis sponsored legislation aimed at protecting health-care beneficiaries from intermediary practices, consistent with her focus on reducing costs and increasing transparency.
SourceMalliotakis co-sponsored health legislation concerning essential caregivers and access to care for vulnerable patients.
SourceMalliotakis states that she supports lowering health-care premiums, expanding access for small-business employees, and requiring more transparency from pharmacy benefit managers.
SourceNicole Malliotakis emphasizes a low-tax, anti-spending economic agenda, including support for the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, restoring the SALT deduction, opposing Democratic tax increases, and reducing costs such as gas taxes. Her record on Economy & Jobs also includes sponsoring tax-related bills aimed at overtime pay, gas-tax relief, senior home sales, electronic tax filing, and IRS/tax-preparer oversight.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis proposed a tax bill to exclude overtime compensation from federal income taxation, framing tax relief as a way to help workers keep more of their earnings.
SourceMalliotakis proposed legislation related to federal gas-tax relief, aligning with her stated focus on lowering costs for households and commuters.
SourceMalliotakis proposed temporarily increasing the capital-gains exclusion for qualifying seniors who sell a principal residence during a qualifying year.
SourceMalliotakis proposed a tax-administration bill concerning electronic filing and logistical efficiency in the tax system.
SourceMalliotakis says she is a founding member of the Congressional SALT Caucus and supports restoring the State and Local Tax deduction as part of her tax-and-economy agenda.
SourceNicole Malliotakis takes a restrictive, enforcement-focused immigration stance: she supports stronger border security, more funding for CBP and ICE, detention and deportation of criminal or removable noncitizens, and opposition to sanctuary policies. She also frames her position as compatible with legal immigration, citing her immigrant-family background and assistance to law-abiding constituents navigating citizenship bureaucracy.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis says she supports strengthening border security, increasing investment in U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and fixing the immigration system while helping law-abiding immigrants become citizens.
SourceMalliotakis called for fully funding DHS, including provisions to sustain Border Patrol staffing, fund custody operations, end programs she says incentivize illegal immigration, and support detention and deportation of criminal and removable aliens.
SourceMalliotakis highlighted support for a nearly $70 billion package funding ICE, CBP, border surveillance technology, immigration enforcement operations, and related homeland-security activities through September 30, 2029.
SourceMalliotakis criticized New York sanctuary policies and argued that illegal immigrants with lengthy criminal records should be jailed or turned over to ICE rather than released back into the community.
SourceMalliotakis announced legislation and joined local officials opposing use of Fort Wadsworth or other federal park or military sites as migrant shelters, saying the Biden administration should secure the southern border instead of shifting costs to New York communities.
SourceNicole Malliotakis emphasizes affordability and reliability in energy policy, supporting lower fuel and utility costs, expanded domestic energy production, nuclear power, hydropower, and grid reliability. She also highlights coastal resilience, wetlands protection, sea-wall funding, renewable-energy goals, and climate-risk planning in her environmental record.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis proposed temporarily suspending the federal gasoline and diesel fuel taxes to lower prices at the pump while replenishing transportation trust funds from general revenue.
SourceMalliotakis co-sponsored legislation related to advancing water reuse, a policy area tied to water conservation and environmental resilience.
SourceMalliotakis supports federal efforts to increase domestic energy production, strengthen grid reliability, expand nuclear power, support hydropower, and lower electricity costs for families and businesses.
SourceHer campaign issues page says she worked on the East Shore Sea Wall, beach erosion, sensitive wetlands protections, climate-risk planning for sea-level rise and storm flooding, and state goals to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and expand renewable energy.
SourceMalliotakis supported reopening Indian Point, arguing that shutting down a reliable nuclear energy source contributed to higher energy costs in New York.
SourceNicole Malliotakis emphasizes parental control, school choice, student safety, and accountability in K-12 and higher education. Her public positions also include stronger consequences for colleges that fail to protect students’ civil rights, expanded career and technical education, and tax-free employer help for student loans.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis says she supports expanding parental school choice, giving parents stronger roles in curriculum decisions, and increasing transparency through a Parents’ Bill of Rights approach.
SourceMalliotakis’s education plan calls for auditing Department of Education contracts, reducing central bureaucracy, measuring program results, and expanding career and technical education programs and internships.
SourceMalliotakis supports fining tax-exempt colleges and universities that violate students’ civil rights under Title VI, describing the proposal as a response to antisemitism on campuses.
SourceMalliotakis supports extending or making permanent tax-free employer reimbursements for student loans and other qualified higher-education expenses to reduce student debt burdens.
SourceNicole Malliotakis presents public safety as a core priority, emphasizing support for law enforcement, opposition to cashless bail, Rikers closure, and police defunding, and tougher action on crime and illegal drug sites. Her recent record includes a proposed federal law related to attacks on law enforcement and co-sponsorship of anti-auto-theft legislation, alongside campaign statements supporting police funding, school safety measures, and stricter bail policies.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Malliotakis proposed legislation in the crime and law enforcement area related to federal protections for law enforcement and public safety.
SourceMalliotakis co-sponsored legislation categorized under crime and law enforcement to address auto robbery and related public safety concerns.
SourceHer campaign issues page says she supports law enforcement, opposed New York’s cashless bail law, opposed closing Rikers Island, opposed defunding police, and introduced legislation tying federal funding to municipalities certifying they have not defunded police departments.
SourceHer campaign accomplishments page says she secured millions for NYPD equipment and counterterrorism, more than $9 million for FDNY projects, funding for the College of Staten Island Public Safety Center, and security cameras at NYCHA’s Berry Houses.
SourceIn her NYC Campaign Finance Board candidate statement, Malliotakis said families deserve neighborhoods free from drugs, crime, and violence, and said she opposed closing Rikers Island, ending cash bail, and defunding police.
SourceU.S. House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/25769817482Fetched: biography, education, professional background, committee assignments
Representative Nicole Malliotakis official website
https://malliotakis.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucusesFetched: committee assignments
GovInfo Congressional Directory 2026
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDIR-2026-02-20/pdf/CDIR-2026-02-20.pdfFetched: biography, location, education, professional background
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H0NY11078/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
OpenWatchdog
https://www.openwatchdog.com/member/M000317Fetched: partyAlignment, missedVotes, keyVotes
OpenSecrets
https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/nicole-malliotakis/us_congress/summary?cycle=2026&mpid=1173955Fetched: campaignFinance
Nicole Malliotakis for Congress - Endorsements
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/endorsements/Fetched: endorsements
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
https://www.uschamber.com/improving-government/u-s-chamber-endorses-rep-nicole-malliotakis-for-new-yorks-eleventh-district-on-national-free-enterprise-express-opportunity-tourFetched: endorsements
Vote Smart
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/127929/nicole-malliotakisFetched: ratings
Nicole Malliotakis for Congress - Issues
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/the-issues/Fetched: issuePositions
Nicole Malliotakis for Congress - Accomplishments
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/accomplishments/Fetched: issuePositions
New York City Campaign Finance Board - Nicole Malliotakis
https://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2020/meet-the-candidates/meet-the-candidates/representative-in-congress/congressional-district-11/nicole-malliotakis/?languageType=EnglishFetched: issuePositions
Nicole Malliotakis for Congress issues page
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/the-issues/Fetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis press release on DHS funding
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-calls-schumer-jeffries-fund-dhs-amid-rising-security-threatsFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis press release with ICE
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-joins-ice-highlight-worst-worst-arrests-sound-alarm-hochulFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis press release on subway attack and sanctuary policies
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-slams-schumer-jeffries-hochul-and-mamdani-after-illegal-immigrantFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis press release on Fort Wadsworth migrant shelter
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-leads-bipartisan-call-stop-any-plans-fort-wadsworth-migrantFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis official House press release on utility bills and energy costs
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-lanza-tannousis-highlight-state-policies-driving-utility-billsFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis official House press release on Gas Tax Relief Act
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-introduces-legislation-temporarily-suspend-federal-gas-taxFetched: issuePositions
Republican Study Committee press release on Malliotakis and Indian Point
https://rsc-pfluger.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-rep-malliotakis-democrats-killed-reliable-energy-new-york-now-familiesFetched: issuePositions
Nicole Malliotakis for Congress - Education Plan PDF
https://nicolemalliotakis.com/plans/education.pdfFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis - University Accountability Act press release
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-introduces-university-accountability-actFetched: issuePositions
Representative Nicole Malliotakis - Employer Participation in Repayment Act press release
https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/press-releases/malliotakis-introduces-bipartisan-legislation-extend-tax-free-student-loanFetched: issuePositions
New York City Campaign Finance Board
https://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/general-election-2020/meet-the-candidates/meet-the-candidates/representative-in-congress/congressional-district-11/nicole-malliotakis/?languageType=EnglishFetched: issuePositions