Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the New Jersey Supreme Court decision in Lewis v. Harris, recognizing the rights of same-sex couples to equal benefits under the law:
“I am extremely pleased that another neighboring state to New York has seen fit to grant equal benefits under the law to same-sex couples. In and of… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler strongly urged the Regional Commissioner of the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) to re-open a local office in southwestern Brooklyn. The previous office serving Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Borough Park and Dyker Heights – located at 6011 Fort Hamilton Parkway – burned down in a fire this August and has remained closed ever since.… Read more »
Today, the House of Representatives considered S. 3930, the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Congressman Nadler delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to the legislation:
"Mr. Speaker, I am not going to get into any of the torture aspects of this bill, but I do want to address the due process aspects of this bill.
The distinguished chairman says we have… Read more »
On September 28, 2006, the House of Representatives considered H.R. 5825, the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act. Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Democrat on the Constitution Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to the legislation:
“Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this dangerous and unnecessary legislation. Dangerous… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler this week met with key State Department and Social Security Administration officials to request that they enter into agreements with the former Soviet nations on the payment of pensions to émigrés. Currently, up to 100,000 Russian speakers in the United States are not receiving the pensions they earned.
"Russian émigrés have… Read more »
Today, the House of Representatives considered S. 403, the Child Custody Protection Act. Congressman Jerrold Nadler is the Ranking Democrat on the Constitution Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the bill. Congressman Nadler delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to the legislation:
"Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may… Read more »
Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee plans to markup the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act, H.R. 5825, which seeks to retroactively legalize the actions by the President and his administration. In response, Rep. Nadler and 20 other Members of Congress, called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program.… Read more »
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez requesting that a Special Counsel be appointed to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, and against other government officials, for taking actions that may… Read more »
Mr. Speaker, it is all together fitting that we adopt a resolution commemorating the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States and, specifically, against the World Trade Center in my district on September 11, 2001.
The attacks were unprovoked, dastardly, and a notice to us all that we are, not at… Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives today considered a resolution authored by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-08) that recognized, for the first time, the importance of establishing a national memorial at the World Trade Center site to commemorate and mourn the events of September 11, 2001 and the first attack on February 26, 1993. The resolution is expected to pass overwhelmingly this… Read more »