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 »
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer and Congressman Jerrold Nadler today announced that the company selling imitation 9/11 coins to the public has agreed to pay $750,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it deceived consumers. In 2010, Schumer and Nadler passed legislation that created an official 9/11 medal to support the National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the… Read more »
Today, Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced new legislation, entitled The Full Faith and Credit Act of 2013, to eliminate the federal debt ceiling, a law they view as unnecessary and increasingly an impediment to Congress’s ability to further economic recovery.… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), representative of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan communities hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, spoke in strong support of H.R. 152, the Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Appropriations bill ($17 billion), and the Frelinghuysen Amendment ($33.4 billion) to provide funding for the Northeast to rebuild and recover from the storm. Nadler again lambasted the… Read more »
Today, House LGBT Equality Caucus Members Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), John Conyers (D-MI), Jared Polis (D-CO), David Cicilline (D-RI), and newly sworn-in Members of Congress Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mark Takano (D-CA), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) denounced the House Republican move to include additional funds to defend the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in… Read more »