Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, hailed the passage of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill. That measure, adopted last week, includes $231,000 for a new youth business career development project to be run by the Brooklyn-based Sephardic Angel Fund. The spending bill must still be reconciled with the Senate… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today held an oversight hearing on the effective enforcement of civil rights laws in light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear. That ruling, from earlier this year, departed from prior interpretations of when victims of pay… Read more »

Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (MI-14) and Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) released the following statements in response to the Supreme Court's ruling, which eliminates voluntary integration programs in public school districts: "This decision is a shameful step backward for civil… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today held an oversight hearing to examine recent actions and proposals that undermine the time-honored right of habeas corpus and the detentions at Guantanamo Bay. The hearing is the second in a series titled "The Constitution in Crisis: The State… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today gaveled in the first comprehensive House hearing on the actions of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and other federal agencies that may have harmed the health of individuals living and working in the vicinity of the World Trade… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today held a hearing to examine H.R.558, the African American Farmers Benefit Relief Act of 2007 and H.R.899, the Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2007. Both of these bills would provide relief for African-American farmers who have been unable to obtain… Read more »

House Hearing will take place on June 25, 2007 in Washington, DC Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will begin the first of two hearings tomorrow into… Read more »

I thank the gentlelady for her support, and I thank Ms. Ros-Lehtinen for her support. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me in supporting House Resolution 137, a resolution to honor the life and six decades of public service of Jacob Birnbaum, known more familiarly as Jacob Birnbaum, especially his commitment freeing Soviet Jews from religious, cultural and… Read more »

Mr. KUCINICH. I am going to proceed specifically with the comments, if I may. Everything that I have relates to this resolution, my good friend. And I am going to proceed now, and then I will yield again, certainly. I just want to make sure we can continue this. I want to proceed with quotes from this resolution. I am just going to stay very closely to this resolution because… Read more »

Today the House adopted House Resolution 137, sponsored by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08), a resolution to honor the life and six decades of public service of Jacob Birnbaum. Often considered the father of the movement to liberate the Soviet Jewry, Mr. Birnbaum, has worked for more than six decades to free Soviet Jews from religious, cultural, and communal extinction. The resolution… Read more »