President Bush released his fiscal year 2007 budget this morning, revealing his intent to slash housing programs critical to New York’s working poor, elderly, and disabled.  The President has consistently shortchanged New Yorkers over his five years in office, and this budget is no exception: his tax cuts for America’s wealthiest are offset by steep reductions in… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler today applauded the Federal District Court in New York for allowing key claims in a WTC-related class-action lawsuit to go forward.  Judge Deborah Batts ruled that EPA, and its former Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, violated residents’ and workers’ constitutional rights by taking actions and making statements that knowingly placed the… Read more »

In light of recent comments about Hamas by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Congressman Jerrold Nadler today urged the Russian Federation to halt all aid to the Palestinian Authority, as long as it includes members of Hamas or any other terrorist group that has not renounced violence.  Yesterday, Congressman Nadler cosponsored a bill in the House of Representatives making the same… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler today joined leading House members as an original cosponsor of legislation to respond to Hamas’s newfound power within the Palestinian government.  The Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 would freeze aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and nongovernmental agencies (NGOs) operating in the West Bank and Gaza so long as Hamas, or any other… Read more »

Debate on the Department of Defense Authorization Bill December 18, 2005 “Mr. Speaker, I rise to oppose the Graham-Levin amendment language contained in this bill.  This provision restricts the jurisdiction of the federal courts to consider habeas corpus petitions from detainees at Guantanamo or complaints about their treatment.  It also would require military… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today demanded that Attorney General Gonzales appoint a special counsel to investigate the President’s apparent violation of law in asking the National Security Agency to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ international phone calls. In a letter to the Attorney General, Nadler pointed to the language in the Foreign Intelligence… Read more »

“House Republicans are pushing the Social Security panic button with one hand and unlocking these trust funds with the other” House Republicans today moved forward with legislation that would allow Social Security trust fund money to be used for purposes other than paying Americans’ guaranteed retirement benefits. Legislation before the House today, the Border… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) yesterday introduced the Mammography Availability Act, H.R. 4540, which would require insurance companies that cover diagnostic mammograms to cover also an annual screening mammogram for women 40 and older. Although annual screening mammograms, used to detect a tumor that cannot be felt, are already covered under Medicare and Medicaid, many private… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler introduced a resolution yesterday encouraging educators and publishers to modernize the Russian history taught in America’s public schools.  Relations between the United States and Russia have changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War, and the former Soviet republics have established a noteworthy history in embracing and implementing… Read more »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared today that the Holocaust is nothing but a “legend” invented by Jews and Western supporters of Israel.  Congressman Nadler released the following statement in response. “President Ahmadinejad’s hideous remarks today were evidence either that he is completely deranged, or that he is willing to say anything to… Read more »