Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, introduced a Resolution in the House of Representatives demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his Administration during the final 90 days of office. H.RES.1531 is in response to President… Read more »

This week, the New York State Congressional Delegation unanimously voted to elect Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) as its official representative on the House’s Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. Rep. Nadler will serve as the officer for New York (Region 11 – the largest of the Committee’s 12 regions) and make official nominations for House Committee assignments and… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, introduced the Midnight Rule Act to require that all regulatory changes made by the White House within the last three months of an Administration be approved by the relevant incoming Cabinet Secretaries. This legislative safeguard would check the Bush… Read more »

Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, urging the Secretary to mandate stronger, more specific guidelines to banks which have received capital infusions from the federal government through the recent rescue legislation (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). While $250 billion in federal money has already been doled out to dozens… Read more »

Today at the Ali Forney Center, in conjunction with National Coming Out Day on Saturday, October 11, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Borough President Scott Stringer, State Senator Tom Duane, Assemblymembers Dick Gottfried and Deborah Glick, and Ali Forney Executive Director Carl Siciliano, urged Mayor Bloomberg to restore essential funding for homeless and at-risk LGBT youth in New… Read more »

NEW YORK, NY – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, applauded today’s decision by the Supreme Court of Connecticut to overturn the State’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Today’s court decision in Connecticut now places that state in the noble company of Massachusetts and… Read more »

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), the Congressman who represents Wall Street, the physical and symbolic center of the American financial market, issued this statement on the floor of the House of Representatives prior to his affirmative vote on H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008:          “I voted against the Iraq War Resolution,… Read more »

, Sept. 28 – Today, New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Vito Fossella (R-NY), and Peter King (R-NY) announced their regret that H.R. 7174, the revised bipartisan 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, will not be able to move to passage during the last days of the current House session. “We thank Speaker Pelosi and her staff as well as the House Energy… Read more »

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Jerrold Nadler welcomed the news that the Senate has passed the Congressional resolution they introduced earlier this year honoring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the theater’s establishment. Citing the theater’s numerous accomplishments, global… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, lauded President Bush for signing into law the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. At this morning’s signing at the White House, Rep. Nadler joined President George W. Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, Attorney General… Read more »