New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King and Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand applauded the unanimous vote today by a federal advisory committee that cancers should be covered under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.  The vote by the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), a panel created under the Zadroga law to evaluate… Read more »

Possibly hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers work for hours a day in workspaces that remain uncleaned, or insufficiently cleaned, of hazardous substances unleashed from the World Trade Center collapse -- and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to blame -- Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said today at a City Hall press conference. The Congressman was joined by the New York… Read more »

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today hailed a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend, by 60 days, the registration deadline for its Mortage and Rental Assistance (MRA) program. Rep. Nadler wrote to FEMA on January 29, urging them to do so. "The MRA program has been one of the most effective post-disaster relief programs for economically impacted individuals… Read more »

Now that the State Department of Labor has heeded Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) call to include information about the Mortgage and Rental Assistance (MRA) program in all unemployment checks sent out by the state, the Congressman is calling on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend the program’s application deadline, which is set for January 31. "My… Read more »

All individuals who receive Unemployment Insurance in New York State will receive information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Mortgage and Rental Assistance Program (MRA) and its upcoming application deadline, it was announced today by US Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and the New York State Department of Labor. Information about the program will be included in all… Read more »

Lower Manhattan resident Ilona Kloupte is just one example of the hundreds of residents the Environmental Protection Agency continues to place in danger because of its lack of an acceptable cleanup plan for interiors still contaminated by hazardous dust from the World Trade Center collapse.  Today, at a press conference inside her home, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) detailed her case -… Read more »

The Federal government will assume a large chunk of construction costs and administration of a National Memorial at the World Trade Center site, but be expressly prohibited from dictating its design, or managing the site without local input if a new piece of legislation, introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), passes. Rep. Nadler was joined by Louise Lo Presti of the Coalition of… Read more »

Citing the difficulty some downtown residents have encountered in applying for the Federal grant programs offered to them, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reiterated his call for Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe Allbaugh to extend the deadline for one of the most important grant programs. Previously, in a letter dated Oct. 3, sent to the Director and Governor George Pataki,… Read more »

A rally in support of downtown small businesses was the background for the announcement that US Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is introducing legislation that would save from taxation grants given to those small businesses.  His legislation, “The September 11th Aid Preservation Act of 2002," would make tax-exempt all grants given to downtown small businesses, non-profits, and… Read more »

Dismissing newly released indoor environmental test results downtown by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “incomplete, unsubstantiated, and illusionary,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today called on the EPA to begin to deal straight with the residents of New York. His remarks came in light of an EPA press conference to release new environmental indoor testing,… Read more »