Brooklyn, NY – U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Congress members Jerrold Nadler and Hakeem Jeffries today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a Project Partnership Agreement to move forward with critical repairs and emergency beach restoration for the Coney Island shoreline. This is a longstanding U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’… Read more »

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today announced that on Wednesday, May 7 at 1:00 p.m., the House Judiciary Committee will markup the USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 3361), legislation introduced by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) to reform our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, renewed his call to enact major legislative updates to our nation’s privacy laws in light of the White House’s recently released “Big Data” privacy report. “The White House’s report calling… Read more »

Rep. Nadler released the following statement on the continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: “We are told by some in the majority that enemy soldiers should not have constitutional rights. But Mr. Speaker, a majority, concededly, of those at Guantanamo was never involved in hostile acts against the United States; 86% were turned in for bounties. We don’t know… Read more »

Today, there are numerous reports from Ukraine that "flyers in Donetsk said all Jews who are 16 years old and above should register at the government building" and that the local Jewish population is "required to report any real estate and automobiles." "The reports coming out of Ukraine about anti-Semitic flyers that make chilling demands… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), a veteran member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder regarding his April 8, 2014 testimony about the Administration’s bulk telephone metadata collection program and its use of National Security Letters (NSLs). “While there has been a lot of attention focused on the government’s… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement at the hearing on “Should the Department of Commerce Relinquish Direct Oversight Over ICANN?” The following is the full text of Congressman Nadler’s opening statement (as prepared for… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, delivered an opening statement at the hearing on the “Preservation and Reuse of Copyrighted Works.” The following is the full text of Congressman Nadler’s opening statement (as prepared for delivery): “Thank you, Mr.… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), a veteran member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, re-introduced the Sunshine in Litigation Act. This legislation would prevent companies, such as General Motors, from concealing evidence of wrongdoing that puts our public health and safety at risk. “For years, America’s… Read more »

Judiciary Committee, not the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has always been the primary forum to debate the appropriate scope of government surveillance Read more »