Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to reports that House Republicans are revising their transportation bill and restoring dedicated federal funding for transit:
“I am encouraged by reports that House Republicans are backing off their plans to dismantle transit funding. If these reports are true, I am pleased that our efforts… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced that the Brighton Postal Station at 3157 Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and the Ovington Retail Station at 6803 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn will remain open, after having appeared on a list of postal stations to be studied for closure last year. Nadler, who had officially urged the U.S. Postal Service to keep… Read more »
Today at a Judiciary Committee markup, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, offered an amendment to H.R. 3541 to require that steps be taken to finally ensure that women receive the protection from discrimination based on pregnancy that was promised by Congress in 1978, when it passed the Pregnancy Discrimination… Read more »
New York Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King and Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand applauded the unanimous vote today by a federal advisory committee that cancers should be covered under the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The vote by the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), a panel created under the Zadroga law to evaluate… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, offered a bipartisan amendment designed to restore transit funding to H.R. 7, the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, the House’s Surface Transportation Bill. As H.R. 7 is currently drafted, the 30-year-old dedicated funding stream for mass… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, reintroduced the American Anti-Torture Act in order to establish a uniform, minimum standard for interrogations of detainees by the U.S. government. The bill would ensure that individuals in U.S. custody are not tortured, a core standard already… Read more »
Last night on the House floor, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, spoke out in strong support of the Obama Administration’s recent ruling on birth control – that contraceptives must be available at no cost to most American women, regardless of where they work.
“I am proud to stand… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, denounced the GOP’s latest attempt to use race and sex as a ploy to curb women’s reproductive rights. H.R. 3541, which was marked up in the House Judiciary Committee, would force doctors to guess the motive of the woman seeking an abortion, and to refuse… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and the sponsor of the Respect for Marriage Act to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), hailed today’s ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. He issued the following… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, testified at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on measures necessary to secure American ports from would-be terrorist attacks. At the Border and Maritime Subcommittee hearing on “Balancing Maritime Security and Trade Facilitation: Protecting Our… Read more »