Today, Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) and Anthony Weiner (NY-09), and City Councilman Michael Nelson (48th District) are pleased to announce that the Brighton Postal Station in Brighton Beach will remain open. After months of concerted effort by the three elected officials and the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep the post office open, USPS has signed a new five-year lease… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), the representative of Lower Manhattan and the senior Northeastern member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced $156 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for the Fulton Street Transit Center in Manhattan. These federal funds, which Nadler supported, will be used for construction and improvements… Read more »

U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Jerry Nadler, and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney announced today that the United States Department of Transportation will allocate over $274 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) East Side Access Project and the Second Avenue Subway Project. The East Side… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, reiterated his call for an independent investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks which killed five people and sickened 17. He issued the following statement: “Despite the FBI’s assertion that the case of the anthrax attacks is closed, there are… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, introduced legislation to prevent guns from getting into the hands of dangerous sex offenders. While it is against federal law for a person convicted of a felony to buy, sell or possess guns or ammunition, it is perfectly legal if he or she has been… Read more »

Today, after careful review of the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, expressed his strong disappointment that referral of OPR’s findings of “misconduct” by former Office of Legal Counsel… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, lamented the House’s extension of certain sunsetting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act without corresponding reforms. H.R. 3961 will extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act without modification for one… Read more »

Today, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), representatives of Ground Zero and long-time advocates of the victims of 9/11, jointly introduced legislation to create an official 9/11 commemorative medal. The National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Commemorative Medal Act, introduced in both the Senate and House of Representatives,… Read more »

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Congressmen Barney Frank (D- MA), Jared Polis (D-CO), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Mike Honda (D-CA), and Mike Quigley (D-IL), joined by more than 50 Members of the LGBT Equality Caucus, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have sent a letter to President Obama and House and Senate leaders expressing… 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 “the First Amendment and Campaign Finance Reform After Citizens United.” The hearing examined the implications of the Court’s January 21st decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, and looked… Read more »