A key study of a cross-harbor rail freight tunnel beneath the Port of New York / New Jersey has received its final installment of Federal money, under legislation recently signed by the President. Should this Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prove satisfactory, the tunnel, pushed by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) would be cleared for preliminary engineering, design and construction funds beginning... Read more »

Lower Manhattan resident Ilona Kloupte is just one example of the hundreds of residents the Environmental Protection Agency continues to place in danger because of its lack of an acceptable cleanup plan for interiors still contaminated by hazardous dust from the World Trade Center collapse. Today, at a press conference inside her home, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) detailed her case - making a stunni... Read more »

A General Accounting Office (GAO) report released on November 13, and obtained by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), raises serious concerns about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) move of the Ombudsman office to the Office of the Inspector General within the EPA. "This GAO report confirms that the ombudsman function no longer exists at EPA," said Rep. Nadler. "Since the function was dissolved,... 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. Rep. Nadler was joined by Louise Lo Presti of the Coalition of September 11th ... Read more »

My heartfelt prayers go out to the family and friends of Senator Paul Wellstone and to the people he so well represented in the Senate. I also express my deepest sympathy to the families of the staff and pilots who died today in the crash of Senator Wellstone's plane. Paul Wellstone was a perfect example of what all elected officials should be. He stood up for what he believed, no matter what the ... Read more »

Citing the difficulty some downtown residents have encountered in applying for the Federal grant programs offered to them, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reiterated his call for Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe Allbaugh to extend the deadline for one of the most important grant programs. Previously, in a letter dated Oct. 3, sent to the Director and Governor George Pataki, Rep. Nadler ... Read more »

A rally in support of downtown small businesses was the background for the announcement that US Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is introducing legislation that would save from taxation grants given to those small businesses. His legislation, “The September 11th Aid Preservation Act of 2002," would make tax-exempt all grants given to downtown small businesses, non-profits, and individuals as part of the... Read more »

Dismissing newly released indoor environmental test results downtown by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “incomplete, unsubstantiated, and illusionary,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today called on the EPA to begin to deal straight with the residents of New York. His remarks came in light of an EPA press conference to release new environmental indoor testing, which seems to show that, wh... Read more »

Efforts to continue funding the final study on a cross harbor rail freight tunnel that would connect the Port of New York / New Jersey with the rail network of the rest of the continental US received two key endorsements today. In letters to the House of Representatives, Deputy Mayor of New York Daniel Doctoroff, and Charles Gargano, Chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation both hearti... Read more »

Below is the prepared floor statement of Rep. Jerrold Nadler on House Joint Resolution 114: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this resolution. I take the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of a hostile and aggressive Iraq very seriously. On Sept. 11, when my district was attacked, I thanked God the terrorists did not have nuclear weapons. We all want to protect this nation. The question bef... Read more »