Yesterday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, spoke on the House Floor in support of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (H.R. 6130), which unanimously passed by voice vote.  Congressman Nadler cosponsored the bill with House Judiciary Committee… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), issued the following joint statement upon the House’s unanimous passage of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (H.R. 6130) by voice… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined fellow Democratic Members of Congress in a forum with bipartisan experts and noted scholars to discuss proposed reforms to the current method of presidential selection.  The forum, entitled “The Electoral College and the Future of American Democracy,” was… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and former Chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, along with House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, wrote to President Barack Obama to urge that he… Read more »

Today, the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, led by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), wrote a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) after President-elect Donald Trump’s vague announcement this morning to leave his “…great business in total…,” requesting that the Committee hold… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) in sending President Obama a letter urging him to take executive action to prohibit federal contractors from seeking the salary history of prospective employees.  The executive action would make further… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, announced his co-sponsorship of the Presidential Accountability Act of 2016 (H.R. 6340), which would extend current federal conflict of interest laws to the President and Vice President of the United States. Federal conflict of interest law prohibits executive branch office holders from engaging in… Read more »

This morning, President-elect Donald Trump announced that U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) would be his choice for Attorney General.  We need an Attorney General who represents the American people’s best interests by fighting to strengthen voting rights, prevent violence against women, and work to reform our broken immigration system, among other priorities. Senator Sessions… Read more »

NEW YORK, NY -- Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, and other state and city elected officials together with local faith leaders condemned the recent spike of hate violence in New York City. The acts of bigotry and intolerance occurring throughout the country follow an election marked by unprecedented divisive rhetoric, which… Read more »

Today, 169 members of the U.S. House, including Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), sent a letter asking President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the appointment of Steve Bannon, former head of Breitbart News, as White House Chief Strategist. The letter was led by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), and although House Republicans were invited to sign on, none did… Read more »