U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) applauded the passage by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation and HUD of the full funding allotments scheduled for this year for the Second Avenue Subway and East Side Access projects. The subcommittee approved the funding installments on September 8th. The federal government and the Metropolitan… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, announced that the Respect for Marriage Act – his legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – now has an unprecedented 122 cosponsors. With support from Reps. Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Tim Walz (D-MN), the bill has surpassed last congress’s total… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), representative of Ground Zero, introduced the National September 11 Memorial and Museum Act of 2011 in order to provide ongoing federal funds and oversight to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum – the official 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero – and designate the Memorial and Museum as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, issued a joint statement, below, on the appointment today of members of the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee, a panel created under the Zadroga Act to review scientific and medical evidence and make recommendations to 9/11 Health Program Administrator Dr. John… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Peter King, Charles Rangel, Nydia Velázquez, and Michael Grimm; Denis Hughes, President of the New York State AFL-CIO; Pat Lynch, President of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association; Al Hagan, President of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association; John Feal, President of the FealGood Foundation; and 9/11 first responders and… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, today released a joint statement, below, in response to studies published in the Lancet this week indicating an elevated risk of melanoma, thyroid and prostate cancer, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among firefighters who served at ground zero compared to the… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) called on President Obama and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to add Kings and New York counties to the list of eligible places within the president’s major disaster declaration after the devastation of Hurricane Irene, as officially requested by the State of New York. Nadler, who joined New York’s congressional… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and 20 members of New York’s congressional delegation chided Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller for his dismissal of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week from ongoing mortgage settlement negotiations, demanding that Attorney General Miller explain how he… Read more »
U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Peter King (R-NY), the authors of H.R. 847, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, today issued the following joint statement on the release by Special Master Sheila Birnbaum of final regulations governing applications for compensation under the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund (VCF):
“The release of… Read more »
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) announced $966,148 in Department of Homeland Security grants that will go toward protecting vulnerable non-profit organizations in his congressional district in New York City against terrorist attacks. Nadler played a major role in providing high-risk non-profits federal funding for security measures through the High-Risk Non-Profit Security… Read more »