Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) soundly rejected the “chairmen’s mark” by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the White House Fiscal Commission, which calls for unnecessary and drastic cuts to Social Security, draconian spending cuts, and reductions in top marginal tax rates. Nadler released the following statement:
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Today, in response to President Bush’s admission in his memoir that he had personally authorized the use of torture while in office, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) blasted the Bush Administration’s illegal policy and renewed his longstanding call for full accountability for the criminal use of torture. Nadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) took action to close a possible federal health insurance loophole allowing insurance companies to deny coverage to sick policyholders by canceling entire classes of insurance coverage. Nadler sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking the agency about the potential loophole in the Patient… Read more »
Today, Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Barney Frank (D-MA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jared Polis (D-CO), leaders of the House LGBT Equality Caucus, formally requested assistance from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stem the occurrence of suicides among LGBT youth. In response to recent highly publicized suicides across the nation, the Members sent a… Read more »
Today, New York City Congressmembers Jerrold Nadler, Jose Serrano, Joseph Crowley, Carolyn Maloney and Ed Towns, with Manhattan Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, New York Communities for Change, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, United Federation of Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, and Laborers Local 78, announced an action plan to immediately address the city’s growing problem of… Read more »
Today, the House of Representatives passed legislation to address the health crisis caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, will provide health care for those exposed to toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. The bill will also reopen the federal Victim Compensation Fund to… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, authors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, applauded the announcement this evening by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer that the Zadroga bill will be voted on next week on the House floor. Maloney and Nadler released the following joint statement on next week’s vote:
“We thank Speaker… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, chaired a hearing on Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Reform and the Revolution in Cloud Computing. The hearing focused on how the growth of “cloud computing” technologies and services may require reforms to ECPA to ensure… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and longtime advocate for victims of rape, introduced the Justice for Rape Victims and Improving Use of DNA Evidence Act of 2010. This bill would reduce the backlog in unanalyzed rape DNA kits and help identify and prosecute perpetrators of rape… Read more »
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) applauded the Federal Communications Commission decision today which preserves the use of two television channels nationwide for the use of wireless microphones and other so-called “white spaces devices.”
“Through their ruling, the FCC has preserved the technical capabilities for modern performing arts, including… Read more »