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Nadler, Herrera Beutler Introduce Bipartisan Living Donor Protection Act to Protect Organ Donors

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Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) introduced the Living Donor Protection Act of 2017, to protect the rights of living organ donors. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not specify that living organ donors can take unpaid leave to recover from their donation and does not guarantee that donors will have a job…

Congressmembers Nadler, Conyers, and Cohen Introduce Resolution In Wake of Donald Trumps Personal Attacks Against Judiciary

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 Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee, along with Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), each of the other Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, and more than 20 additional…

Congressman Nadler Statement Supporting Email Privacy Act

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 Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee, urged his colleagues to support the Email Privacy Act. Rep. Nadler is an original co-sponsor of the legislation, which protects peoples’ privacy and civil liberties by requiring law…

Rep. Nadler Opposes Trump's Supreme Court Pick

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Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the President's selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch to be his nominee to be the next Supreme Court Justice: "After more than a year of GOP obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee – simply because he was nominated by President Obama – the Senate should…

Reps. Nadler and Velazquez Demand Release of Refugees Held at JFK under Trump's New Executive Order

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Today, U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez traveled to JFK airport to demand the release of refugees being held under the president’s executive order. After meeting with officials from the Custom and Border Patrol agency, one of the refugees, Hameed Khalid Darweesh, an Iraqi translator who helped the United States government, was released.  Reps. Nadler…

Conyers, Nadler, Cohen and Raskin to Trump: Torture is Wrong and Your Black Sites Order is Illegal

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 Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), all members of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, in a statement following the New York Times report on a forthcoming Executive Order on “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants.”  The…

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