Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will issue a solicitation for sources to provide federally-funded medical monitoring and treatment to thousands of 9/11 responders who live outside metropolitan New York City.  (Click here for a copy of the CDC’s announcement.)  In December, the Administration suddenly announced that it had… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this carefully crafted legislation which gives our intelligence agencies all the tools they say they need to protect our country while protecting our fundamental civil liberties. In the last few weeks, we have heard countless assertions from our colleagues on the other side that are false and misleading. They claim that we allowed the Protect America… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, the last few weeks, the last few minutes we have heard assertions from our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that are false and designed to mislead and frighten the American people. They claim that we allowed the Protect America Act to expire, that we are dark for 27 days. Ken Wainstein, the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and the Bush… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 3733, the FISA Amendments Act. This carefully crafted legislation gives our intelligence agencies all the tools they need to protect our country, while protecting our fundamental civil liberties. Mr. Speaker, let us be clear about what this legislation does not do. It does not require individual warrants for the targeting of foreign… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today urged his colleagues to adopt H.R. 3733, the FISA Amendments Act.  That bill is expected to be voted on today.  On Thursday evening, the House held a rare closed session to discuss surveillance legislation in a classified setting in light of… Read more »

Madam Speaker, the state secrets privilege is a common law doctrine that allows the Government to protect sensitive national security information from harmful disclosure in litigation. This privilege was first recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1953 case of U.S. v. Reynolds, a case brought by the widows of three civilian engineers against the U.S. Government for negligence… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today issued the following statement following the announcement that the House will hold a closed session to review the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.  The House is also expected to consider, as early as tonight, H.R. 3733, the… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today renewed his call for Congress to provide legislative checks against the unprecedented and dangerous abuses of powers created, and expanded, by the Patriot Act. Today, the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG) issued two reports: one on the… Read more »

Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Thomas Petri (WI-6), House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (MI-14), and Bill Delahunt (MA-10) today introduced legislation that would ensure meaningful judicial determination of the state secrets privilege.  The bipartisan bill, the H.R. 5607, the State… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), today issued the following statement on incoming Governor David Paterson.  Effective Monday, Lieutenant Governor Paterson will be the Governor of New York, following the resignation of Governor Elliot Spitzer.  Rep. Nadler’s statement follows: “In the more than twenty years that I have been privileged to know David Paterson as a… Read more »