Last night, Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and Peter Welch (D-VT) offered an amendment to Defense Appropriations legislation to improve energy efficiency for U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan. The Blumenauer-Nadler amendment would specifically require at least $15 million of Army Overseas Contingency Operations funding to be… Read more »
Today, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Steven LaTourette (R-OH), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Mike Simpson (R-UT) released a letter to House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and Ranking Member Nick Rahall decrying proposed reauthorization funding levels that would “result in a transportation system that is less reliable, less safe and less able to serve… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the proposed rule change by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) improving due process for union elections and other worker protections:
“This year, as we marked the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, we are reminded of just how far we’ve come in enacting laws to protect… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and author of the Respect for Marriage Act to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), celebrated the successful votes in both chambers of the New York State legislature supporting marriage equality for all New Yorkers. He issued the following statement:
"I am thrilled… Read more »
Today, Congressman Nadler challenged the President’s decision to continue the Afghanistan War for three more years. “To delay the withdrawal of our forces and continue his terrible policy at so high a cost is quite simply unconscionable,” said Congressman Nadler.
“It is unjustifiable to sacrifice more lives and more money this way. We should withdraw our troops… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern Member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, delivered the following statement at a Committee hearing on the Competition for Intercity Passenger Rail in America Act of 2011:
“Thank you, Chairman Mica and Ranking Member Rahall, for holding this hearing on the Chairman’s bill to privatize… 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, today released the following joint statement on the release by Special Master Sheila Birnbaum of draft regulations governing applications for compensation under the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF):
“Thousands… Read more »
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, U.S. Treasurer Rosa Rios and 9/11 Memorial President Joe
Daniels today unveiled the 2011 September 11 National Medal issued by the U. S.
Mint to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001. Partial proceeds from sales of the official 9/11 medal will support
the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and a long-term supporter of victims of sexual violence, introduced the Justice for Rape Victims and Improving Use of DNA Evidence Act of 2011. The bill would reduce the backlog in unanalyzed rape DNA kits and help identify and prosecute perpetrators of rape across the… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) opposed Republican efforts to dramatically cut funding for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. WIC, funded through H.R. 2112, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food & Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, provides food to low- and moderate-income mothers, babies, and children under five.
“For… Read more »