Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today joined residents, families, workers, and first responders of the World Trade Center disaster to announce the introduction of the 9/11 Comprehensive Health Benefits Act. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will introduce a companion bill in the Senate. "Mt. Sinai's alarming findings that 70% of the more than 9,000 first responders they… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler issued the following statement in response to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement of new initiatives regarding 9/11 health issues: “I applaud Mayor Bloomberg for the initiatives he announced today to address the growing 9/11 public health crisis.  These are good first steps. In particular, creating a World Trade Center Environmental Health… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler issued the following statement in response to the release by Mount Sinai Medical Center’s World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program of their study examining the health of first responders who worked at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11th attacks.  The finding of the multi-year study shows that the 9/11-related health impacts on the first responders… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler released the following statement in response to the release of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Clinical Guidelines for Adults Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster: "I am pleased that the Department of Health has finally, at long last, released these guidelines. They confirm that New York continues to suffer from a health… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler today condemned the recent remarks by Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).  In a recent speech, Rep. Harris told the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention, that “if you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin." Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following… Read more »

MANHATTAN, NY—Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and members of the New York Congressional Delegation joined with the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) and labor representatives, environmental groups, community activists and local elected officials to denounce the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) continued failure to conduct a necessary… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler will meet today with residents of Haber Houses to highlight federal and local efforts to improve safety and fight crime by installing over forty security cameras in the Coney Island neighborhood.  He will be joined by City Councilman Dominic Recchia who played a key role in securing funding and ensuring installation of the security cameras. Congressman… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler, who is the Ranking Member on the Constitution Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, today renewed his call for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor declared that the program "violates the APA (Administrative Procedures Act); separation of powers… Read more »

Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson announced today that the VA health system would retain the VA hospitals in both Manhattan and Brooklyn.  Congressman Jerrold Nadler, who testified last September in favor of retention of both sites, released the following statement: “Secretary Nicholson made the right decision.  Both the Manhattan and Brooklyn medical… Read more »

As theaters prepared for the opening of Oliver Stone’s film “World Trade Center” tonight, New York advocacy groups and elected officials called for renewed focus on the real-life heroes of 9/11.  Many of the first responders and salvage workers who answered their nation’s call on that day were grievously sickened by World Trade Center contamination and have… Read more »