Today, Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Yvette Clarke, Charlie Rangel, Eliot Engel, Carolyn Maloney, Joe Crowley, Jose Serrano, Nydia Velazquez, Steve Israel, Gregory Meeks, Hakeem Jeffries, and Grace Meng raised serious concerns about the need for more aggressive – and better coordinated – mold abatement in parts of New York City that were flooded by Hurricane Sandy.  In… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Councilman Brad Lander – joined by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, NYC Comptroller John Liu, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, State Senator Kevin Parker, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs,… Read more »

President Obama, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, House champions of immigration reform endorse UAFA and LGBT-inclusive immigration legislation Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement: “Mayor Koch was a quintessential New Yorker and a central figure in New York life for 40 years.  For decades, he embodied the soul of our city, unfailingly defending and advocating for New York and everyone in it.  I was proud to have worked with him for years during his mayoralty and after on so many… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Councilman Brad Lander, joined by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, NYC Comptroller John Liu, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, State Senator Kevin Parker, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs,… Read more »

Today U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn) and Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn), chief House sponsors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act, joined Sheila Birnbaum, Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (VCF), to co-host a VCF public forum at Baruch College in Manhattan for persons interested in learning… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) applauded the White House’s new blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform, a framework which includes a direct pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, and a family reunification proposal that specifically includes bi-national LGBT couples.  Nadler, the longtime sponsor of the Uniting American… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to reports of a congressional budget resolution that might reduce Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits, including the use of chained CPI: “I, along with my fellow progressives, will never support the beginning of the dismantling of the New Deal.  We will never support reductions in… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) opposed H.R. 325, the Temporary Debt Limit Suspension bill offered by House Republicans to avoid a clean raising of the debt ceiling.  This partisan legislation would suspend the debt limit only through May 19 and tie that suspension to congressional pay and budgetary actions.  Nadler issued the following statement: “This partisan… Read more »

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of Congress’s most outspoken defenders of civil rights and civil liberties, was again named the Ranking Democrat on the newly renamed Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice of the House Judiciary Committee.  The Constitution subcommittee has jurisdiction over all proposed constitutional amendments, constitutional rights,… Read more »