Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), and Lois Capps (D-CA) today applauded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for their draft proposal to modify Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery.  The Representatives called the decision a positive step that will help reduce the significant health risks associated with obesity among the Medicare… Read more »

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Jerrold Nadler today reiterated their call for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to undertake an investigation into the EPA's failure to establish an effective, science-based testing and clean-up plan for testing and cleaning indoor air contamination following the September 11th attacks. In a letter sent today to the GAO,… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler released the following statement today following the Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement that it has drafted a new testing and cleaning plan. “This testing and cleanup plan is a breathtaking slap at the residents and workers of Lower Manhattan.  Once again, EPA is quite callously demonstrating that the health and safety of those… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today demanded that the leaders of the PATRIOT Act conference committee not subvert the democratic process by ignoring unanimous votes in both the House and the Senate calling for four-year sunsets in the PATRIOT Act.  The Senate-passed version of bill called for four-year sunsets. The House-passed version called… Read more »

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee’s Railroads Subcommittee held a hearing today on “Current Governance Issues at Amtrak.”  At the hearing, Congressman Jerrold Nadler condemned Amtrak’s Board of Directors as lacking relevant experience and bent on destruction of federally funded passenger rail service in America.  Nadler’s… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler released the following statement today in response to the firing of Amtrak President and CEO David Gunn: “The recent firing of David Gunn as President of Amtrak is an outrage.  The Amtrak Board of Directors has become a front for the Bush Administration and Amtrak opponents.  The firing of David Gunn is another backdoor attempt to dismantle… Read more »

The House of Representatives today agreed to sunset three controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act after four years.  Hard-line House supporters of the President’s policies had previously insisted on implementing only two ten-year sunsets. “The House showed a desperately needed measure of common sense in agreeing to four-year sunsets today,” Congressman Nadler… Read more »

Congressman Jerrold Nadler today offered a critical amendment to correct a major flaw in H.R. 4128, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2005.  The bill attempts to limit government seizure of private land for economic development purposes – but in doing so, it would make it extraordinarily difficult for states and localities to secure financing for major projects.… Read more »

“The question now before the Committee is whether the CIA leak itself was part of an effort to cover up a broader conspiracy to mislead Congress into authorizing a war.” Congressman Jerrold Nadler today demanded the House Judiciary Committee investigate whether White House officials deliberately deceived Congress in order to obtain its authorization of the war in Iraq. In a… Read more »

In the wake of the special grand jury’s handing up of an indictment in the CIA leak investigation, Congressman Jerrold Nadler renewed his call for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to expand his investigation into whether the Bush administration engaged in a deliberate campaign to deceive Congress into authorizing war in Iraq.  Nadler released the following statement:… Read more »