As a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, I’ve sat there and heard the representative actually spew anti-American rhetoric as well, i’ve been in that committee room where the representative equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee.

Nicole Malliotakis

Nicole Malliotakis (born November 11, 1980) is an American politician and U.S. Representative-elect for New York's 11th congressional district. A a member of the Republican Party, she represents part of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and East Shore, Staten Island in the New York State Assembly. She is the only Republican woman elected in New York City and, as the daughter of Greek and Cuban immigrants, the first Hispanic American to win elected office in Staten Island. Malliotakis is one of the first two Greek-American women elected to office in New York State.She was the Republican nominee in New York City's 2017 mayoral election against incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio. As a candidate for New York's 11th congressional district in the 2020 election Malliotakis was endorsed by both the Republican and Conservative Parties. Malliotakis defeated freshman incumbent Democratic Representative Max Rose in the November 3, 2020 general election.

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