Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
today lauded the House for passing H.R. 3195, the Americans with
Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. That bill was adopted on a
vote of 402 to 17.
“This bill will restore the Americans with Disabilities
Act to its rightful place among this… Read more »
I thank the gentleman.
Madam Speaker, I want to commend the distinguished majority leader and the gentleman from
Wisconsin
(Mr. Sensenbrenner) as well as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Education and Labor Committee for their leadership on this important legislation.
This bill would help to restore the Americans with Disabilities Act to its rightful… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
today held a meeting where the Subcommittee adopted a resolution
“authorizing the Chairman to issue a subpoena to compel the testimony
of Douglas Feith.” Lawmakers also approved H.R. 3189, the National
Security Letters Reform Act of 2007, a… Read more »
Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Vito Fossella, and Peter
King today announced that the proposed Labor, Health and Human Services
(HHS) Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2009 will contain $108
million in federal funding to provide health care to first responders,
local residents, area workers, students, and others who were exposed to
environmental hazards released as a result of… Read more »
Madam Speaker, I rise it support of this legislation which is a simple measure the House can take to help protect our troops from undue financial hardship. We constantly receive stern lectures about the importance of supporting the troops. But supporting the troops is more than just wearing a flag pin, or sticking a yellow ribbon on your car, or impugning the patriotism of your political… Read more »
NEW YORK -- Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Manhattan
Borough President Scott Stringer, New York State Senator Tom Duane, New
York State Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, and New York City
Councilmember Gale Brewer today celebrated the New York City Department
of Education's (DOE) agreement to heed their and the P.S. 199 Parent
Teacher Association's (PTA) call for comprehensive… Read more »
Governor David A. Paterson today joined state legislators in announcing an
agreement to cover additional public workers who risked their health and safety
in the rescue, recovery and clean-up efforts at the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11,
2001. The changes embrace the unanimous recommendations of the bi-partisan
September 11th Worker Protection Task Force.… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties today spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act. The bill was adopted on a vote of 293 to 129.
“This bill is a fig-leaf, granting blanket immunity to the telecom companies for possibly illegal acts without allowing… Read more »
Madam Speaker, Members of the House must decide today whether to uphold the rule of low and the supremacy of the Constitution or whether to protect and reward the lawless behavior of the administration and of the telecommunications companies that participated in its clearly illegal program of spying on innocent Americans.
This bill limits the courts hearing lawsuits alleging illegal… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
today expressed his objections to H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act.
That bill is expected to be considered by the House on Friday.
“I regret
that I cannot vote for the FISA Amendments Act,” said Rep. Nadler.
“While the wiretapping… Read more »