House Republican Leadership today blocked House consideration of the Sail Only if Scanned (S.O.S.) Act, a bill to x-ray 100-percent of shipping containers entering the United States. Congressman Jerrold Nadler authored the bill with Congressman James Oberstar, ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Nadler offered the S.O.S. Act as an amendment to… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler has introduced a bill to honor the late Wendy Wasserstein. The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, whose plays include The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig, died of lymphoma on January 20 in New York. She was 55 years old.
"This January, the theater world lost a legend," Congressman Nadler said. "Wendy… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler today applauded the decision by Dubai Ports World to scuttle its proposed purchase of American port interests. The controversial deal met with near-unanimous opposition from Congress and from the American people, and shed light on the ongoing threat posed by uninspected containers arriving at our ports.
Congressman Nadler released the following… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, this bill manipulates the legislative process by repackaging legislation that for the most part has already passed the House, and by taking out of that legislation two amendments that were passed on the floor of the House and giving us no opportunity, giving the House majority no opportunity to correct this.
The bill includes three previous bills. On one of them I… Read more »
Madam Speaker, we are engaged in a serious war with terrorism. But we are going after the wrong targets. We are not protecting ourselves, but we are attacking our liberties. We are not doing anything adequate to secure the loose nuclear materials all over the former Soviet Union before they are smuggled to al Qaeda to make atomic bombs.
We search only 5 percent of the 9 million… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler today issued the following statement regarding the proposed sale of American port facilities to Dubai Ports World, a company controlled by the government of the United Arab Emirates.
“It’s only reasonable that the proposed sale of American port operations to Dubai Ports World should be stopped until Congress can review it thoroughly. It goes… Read more »
Madam Speaker, in the President's budget he asks for a few hundred million dollars over the next few years for the cost of privatizing Social Security. When he was here at the State of the Union address, he commented that Congress rejected his proposals to privatize Social Security. All the Democrats to his surprise got up and cheered, because we think it is a terrible idea to… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, I rise to support S. Con. Res. 79, a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority so long as the Hamas-led government maintains a position calling for the destruction of Israel.
In fact, I will go further and say that the United States should freeze all aid to the Palestinian… Read more »
The House Judiciary Committee today held a markup of H. Res. 643, a resolution directing the Attorney General to submit to Congress all documents in his possession pertaining to warrantless wiretapping. Congressman Jerrold Nadler delivered the following statement in support of the measure:
“On December 16, 2005, the New York Times first reported that the National Security… Read more »
The House of Representatives today voiced its strong opposition to control of the Palestinian Authority by any party calling for the destruction of the State of Israel.
The House passed a resolution, S. Con. Res. 79, making it Congress’s position that “no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority if any representative political party… Read more »