Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to suspend plans for a hike in fares, until an immediate independent investigation can determine the extent to which MTA may have been engaged in fraudulent accounting. "I agree with those that say an independent commission needs to take a look into the MTA books, in light of the information that has come out toda... Read more »

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christine Todd Whitman is coming under fire today for trying to cover up the Bush Administration's environmental record with her public appearances in New York City for Earth Day. "Without a doubt, Administrator Whitman has led an agency that has done more harm to New Yorkers than perhaps all of the previous Administrations combined," said Rep. N... Read more »

Three of New York's highest ranking office holders are joining with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today to reiterate the need for the Federal government to fund construction of a Cross Harbor Rail Freight Tunnel. At a press conference at City Hall, U.S. Senators. Charles E. Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton called on all city officials to be united in the fight for Federal funding. Mayor Michael R. ... Read more »

Twelve Members of Congress are releasing a letter to Secretary of Education Roderick Paige today, expressing disappointment in his recent comments expressing a belief that public schools, with their student bodies of various beliefs, are inferior to schools that teach expressly Christian values. The letter will be sent to Secretary Paige tomorrow. “We were stunned and saddened to read your comment... Read more »

Demonstrating the breadth of support for equal immigration rights for same-sex permanent partnerships, a bill which would extend to couples in permanent partnerships the same benefits legal marriages enjoy under the US Immigration Law reached 100 cosponsors today. Rep. James Greenwood, a Republican of Pennsylvania, was the 100th Member to sign onto the bill. To mark the occasion, the sponsor of T... Read more »

U.S. Port Security measures would get a $15 billion dollar boost, if an amendment being offered by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill passes. “We are spending $100 billion on an anti-ballistic missile system, supposedly to protect ourselves against a rogue nation that might launch two or three nuclear missiles at us,” said Rep. Nadler. “Yet such a nation w... Read more »

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today expressed his disgust and bewilderment that Islamic schools in New York City are teaching hatred at a time when the American people are working so hard to come together. "I don't understand why these schools would knowingly teach ignorant hatred and anti-Semitism at a time when so many of us are working so hard to rebuff the equally ignorant and abhorrent myths abo... Read more »

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), from New York's 8th Congressional District (Manhattan, Brooklyn), released the following statement on the passing of former colleague, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "I was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of Senator Moynihan today. My thoughts are with his family in this trying time. Senator Moynihan was an icon in New York, Congress, and America. He was the embod... Read more »

The Federal government will assume a large chunk of construction costs and administration of a National Memorial at the World Trade Center site, but be expressly prohibited from dictating its design, or managing the site without local input if a new piece of legislation, introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), passes. “My legislation essentially says two things: First, the Federal government sho... Read more »

The US House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill today, sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), to name the federal building at 290 Broadway after former Congressman Ted Weiss. Rep. Weiss represented New York's 17th District, now Rep. Nadler’s 8th District, in Congress for 16 years. “For a man who fought so hard to create a more just world, this legislation would be a small way to say t... Read more »