“Mr. Chairman, I support the 'Fix NICS Act' as a sensible step to improve our national firearms background check system.
“When we enacted the Brady Act in 1994, we evolved from a waiting period-based system to one that established a so-called 'instant check' through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System – what we… Read more »
“Mr. Chairman, I strongly oppose the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” and I am disappointed that this legislation is before us today.
“The level of gun violence in our country is astounding and unacceptable. Our gun violence problem is much more than the periodic, but all-too-frequent, horror of mass shootings. Every day in… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Congressman Peter King (R-NY) together joined as bipartisan cosponsors of H.R. 4396, the Member and Employee Training and Oversight On Congress (ME TOO Congress) Act of 2017. This landmark legislation, authored and introduced by Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), would fundamentally change the flawed process Congress uses to… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), second most senior Democratic Member of the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement concerning the House Judiciary Committee:
"Even under these unfortunate circumstances, the important work of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee must move forward. I will do everything in my power to… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), second most senior Democratic Member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement regarding the allegations against Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.:
“The allegations against Ranking Member Conyers are extremely serious and deeply troubling. Obviously, these allegations must be investigated promptly by the Ethics… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, used the Committee’s oversight hearing of the Department of Justice to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions after revelations in the George Papadopoulos guilty plea showed inconsistencies in Sessions’s earlier testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Under… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the Committee’s Department of Justice oversight hearing about the information in the George Papadopoulos guilty plea and Attorney General Sessions’s earlier testimony that he had no knowledge of any “exchange of… Read more »
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee approved by a vote of 27-8 the USA Liberty Act (H.R. 3989), a bipartisan bill that reforms and reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to protect both national security and Americans’ civil liberties. The bill was introduced last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered the following statement in support of the USA Liberty Act. The legislation, which passed in the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 27-8, will bring substantial, bi-partisan reforms to the federal… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, delivered the following statement at a subcommittee hearing on Sovereign Immunity in Intellectual Property.
Below is Congressman Nadler’s opening statement:
"Mr. Chairman, State sovereign immunity is a… Read more »