Today, U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Peter T. King (R-NY), the House sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, wrote to the House leadership of both parties urging that steps be taken to avoid a cut in federal funds for the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) that would… Read more »

Today, U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Peter T. King (R-NY), the House sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, issued a statement pledging to fight against a cut in federal funds for the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF) that would be triggered by the automatic… Read more »

Last night, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, helped defeat yet another effort by House Republicans to curtail women’s access to reproductive rights.  H.R. 3803, the “D.C. Abortion Ban Act,” was defeated under suspension of the rules. “This legislation is a flagrantly… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, condemned bad faith and cynical efforts by House Republicans to repeal the landmark and thoroughly constitutional Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. “Instead of fighting for good paying American jobs, Republicans are launching their 31st attempt to repeal… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, hailed the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling apparently upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  Nadler issued the following statement: “Today, in upholding the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has shown that, even at a time when… Read more »

Tonight, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) successfully offered an amendment to increase funding for HIV/AIDS housing within H.R. 5972, the FY2013 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Act. The amendment restores $2 million to the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS program (HOPWA) to maintain current funding levels. Each million dollars spent through the program provides stable… Read more »

Today, U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Peter T. King (R-NY), the House sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, commended the proposal by Dr. John Howard, Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health and the administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program, that the Program accept the… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, denounced H.R. 3541, the so-called “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act,” unconstitutional legislation that would interfere in a woman’s private medical choices and criminalize abortion prior to viability. “Today we have yet another radical foray into… Read more »

Today, the Science/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the World Trade Center Health Program voted to add certain types of cancers for coverage under the program. U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Peter King (R-NY), authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, lauded today's real progress toward inclusion of cancers under… Read more »

U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Peter King (R-NY), authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, issued the following joint statement in response to the publication today of e-mail communications by members of the World Trade Center Science/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), showing that the Committee is making progress toward… Read more »