Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), U.S. Representatives John Katko (R-NY) and Joe Neguse (D-CO), and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a bicameral bill that would give Americans overwhelmed by student loan debt the option of obtaining meaningful bankruptcy relief. The Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act o... Read more »
Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), issued the following joint statement after the release of the Trump Administration’s Federal School Safety Commission report, which provides recommendations for arming teachers and rescinding the Obama Administra... Read more »
This week, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced it will rescind Obama-era guidance that provides recommendations to boost diversity on campuses. “The Trump administr... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, “Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities.” The ranking members requested that the GAO in... Read more »
Watch Here Today, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland, Security, and Investigations conducted a hearing examining school safety issues and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) inadequate response to tips concerning the man who shot and killed 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14. Among the issues examin... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on "Preventable Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy." "Mr. Chairman, it is appropriate for the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime to conduct hearings to examine ways to prev... Read more »
Today, U.S. Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), José E. Serrano (NY-15), and Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) issued the following statement to call upon Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to reconsider the decision to cut program funding for Upward Bound. “In 1965, I arrived at Columbia University as the first kid in my family to go to college,” said Rep. Nadler. “That same year, Columbia received its ... Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) announced more than $1.1 million in federal funding, provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), for 9 New York institutions and individuals, including New York University, the CUNY Research Foundation, and the New York Historical Society. This funding will support a range of projects in New York which make important contributions to our ... Read more »
