Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, voiced his strong opposition to GOP efforts to force through a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.  At a Constitution Subcommittee hearing on “Whether the Constitution Should be Amended to Address the Federal Deficit,” Nadler warned of… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, offered the Motion to Recommit to H.R. 745, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, joined by Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).  The Motion (attached as a PDF) honors all of those responsible for the successful mission to locate… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, offered an amendment to H.R. 1800, the FISA Sunsets Reauthorization Act of 2011, in order to protect the privacy rights of Americans who patronize libraries and bookstores.  The amendment, submitted during a Judiciary Committee markup, would make two changes to Section… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) stated his strong opposition to language in H.R. 1540, the National Defense Authorization Act, which seeks to redefine and expand the war on terror and give the Executive Branch unprecedented authority to wage war.  Nadler called on the House Armed Services Committee to modify language in Chairman Buck McKeon’s current version of the… Read more »

New York City – Today, Reps. Anthony Weiner (D – Queens and Brooklyn) and Jerrold Nadler (D – Manhattan and Brooklyn) announced legislation that would award the bounty of up to $50 million approved by Congress for the capture of Osama Bin Laden, which many news reports indicate may never be distributed, to be instead distributed amongst organizations that provide service… Read more »

Today, in honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler re-introduced the Mammogram and MRI Availability Act, a crucial women’s health initiative that would require insurance companies that cover diagnostic mammograms to also cover annual screening mammograms for women 40 and older, and MRI screenings for high-risk women.  While annual screening mammograms,… Read more »

Today, Congressmen Jerrold Nadler, George Miller, Elijah Cummings, and Brad Miller, along with 29 other House colleagues, urged Attorney General Eric Holder and Iowa State Attorney General Tom Miller to do more to protect victims of improper foreclosures.  The Members urged the attorneys general to consider concerns raised by a broad coalition of consumer, labor, civil rights, and… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the representative of Ground Zero, issued the following statement on the successful U.S. military operation against Osama bin Laden: "President Obama’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden is important and long-awaited news.  One of the most evil men in history, bin Laden was responsible for murdering thousands of Americans and… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler urged Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to continue to pursue agreements between the United States and Russia -- and other states of the former Soviet Union (FSU) -- that would ensure that Russia and other FSU states repay Soviet-era pensions to émigrés now living in the United States. Nadler’s letter comes on the heels of… Read more »

Today, in response to the announcement that King & Spalding will no longer represent the House of Representatives in defending the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court, Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jared Polis (D-CO), and John Conyers (D-MI), lead sponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act to repeal DOMA, issued the following joint statement:… Read more »