“House Republicans are pushing the Social Security panic button with one hand and unlocking these trust funds with the other” House Republicans today moved forward with legislation that would allow Social Security trust fund money to be used for purposes other than paying Americans’ guaranteed retirement benefits. Legislation before the House today, the Border… Read more »

Mr. Speaker, what an underhanded, sneaky rule and bill this is. The Social Security Act has a provision that prohibits, that prohibits the use of Social Security trust funds for changing the Social Security cards. This bill repeals that provision. CBO estimates the cost that could be incurred there by between 5 and $10 billion to be looted out of the Social Security and Medicare trust… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) yesterday introduced the Mammography Availability Act, H.R. 4540, which would require insurance companies that cover diagnostic mammograms to cover also an annual screening mammogram for women 40 and older. Although annual screening mammograms, used to detect a tumor that cannot be felt, are already covered under Medicare and Medicaid, many private… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler introduced a resolution yesterday encouraging educators and publishers to modernize the Russian history taught in America’s public schools.  Relations between the United States and Russia have changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War, and the former Soviet republics have established a noteworthy history in embracing and implementing… Read more »

Madam Speaker, I want to make two points: One, the bad parts about section 215 and section 505 are not that, under certain circumstances, the FBI or other investigative agencies can get information from libraries. No one is proposing, as Mr. Sensenbrenner said, to say that libraries are totally sacrosanct. The bad part is that the FBI can get all this private personal information… Read more »

Madam Speaker, we are engaged in a serious war with terrorism. Unfortunately, we are going after the wrong targets. We are not protecting ourselves, but we are endangering our liberties. We are not doing anything or anything adequate about collecting the loose nuclear materials all over the former Soviet Union before they are smuggled to al Qaeda to make atomic bombs to attack us… Read more »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared today that the Holocaust is nothing but a “legend” invented by Jews and Western supporters of Israel.  Congressman Nadler released the following statement in response. “President Ahmadinejad’s hideous remarks today were evidence either that he is completely deranged, or that he is willing to say anything to… Read more »

Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), and Lois Capps (D-CA) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for their draft proposal to modify Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery.  The Representatives called the decision a positive step that will help reduce the significant health risks associated with obesity among the Medicare… Read more »

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Jerrold Nadler today reiterated their call for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to undertake an investigation into the EPA's failure to establish an effective, science-based testing and clean-up plan for testing and cleaning indoor air contamination following the September 11th attacks. In a letter sent today to the GAO,… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler released the following statement today following the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it has drafted a new testing and cleaning plan. “This testing and cleanup plan is a breathtaking slap at the residents and workers of Lower Manhattan.  Once again, EPA is quite callously demonstrating that the health and safety of those… Read more »