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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement in response to the announcement today that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) will stop processing new Section 8 voucher holders and will terminate nearly 3,000 vouchers:
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, testified on the pressing need to restore pleading standards which allow reasonable access to federal courts. At a hearing of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, Nadler urged his colleagues to pass H.R. 4115, the Open Access to Courts Act of 2009, a bill he introduced last month, along with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), in order to address the Supreme Court’s Ashcroft v. Iqbal decision, which has led to the premature dismissal of numerous civil rights, environmental and consumer protection cases.
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) reiterated his opposition to the escalation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and voted against the FY 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which includes $100 billion in war funding.
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, representative of New York’s 8th congressional district, announced $5,400,000 in federal funding that he has secured for three high-priority projects in New York City. These projects were included in the FY 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which was passed today in the House of Representatives.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a longtime advocate on women’s health issues, lauded today’s successful passage of Rep. Wasserman-Schultz’s resolution on the importance of routine breast cancer screenings for women aged 40-49. He also reminded his colleagues of the necessity to pass his legislation, H.R. 995, the Mammogram and MRI Availability Act, which would require insurance companies that already cover diagnostic mammography and MRI to also cover life-saving screening mammography for women aged 40-49, and screening MRI for women at high risk of breast cancer.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) lauded the passage of legislation designed to curb nuclear proliferation in Iran. H.R. 2194, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions, of which Nadler is a co-sponsor, calls on the United States to broaden diplomatic efforts to end Iran’s uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons programs and, failing that, empowers the President to expand the sanctions currently imposed on the Iranian regime.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) cheered the increase in funding for affordable housing and HIV/AIDS housing included in H.R. 3288, the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which passed the House of Representatives. Nadler, joined by colleagues and the leadership of the Appropriations Committee, fought successfully to increase funding for these essential and chronically underfunded programs. The bill contains significantly more funding for housing programs than last year, including: $18.2 billion for tenant-based rental assistance; $8.5 billion for project-based rental assistance; $75 million for 10,000 Section 8 vouchers for homeless veterans; and, $335 million for the Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, representative of New York’s 8th congressional district, announced $5,300,000 in federal funding that he has secured for 11 high-priority projects in his district. These projects were included in H.R. 3288, the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was passed today in the House of Representatives.
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a leading proponent of women’s reproductive rights and the Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statement on Rep. Stupak’s blatantly discriminatory amendment – which would restrict women’s access to reproductive health care – to the Affordable Health Care for America Act:
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, chaired a hearing on the impact of federal habeas corpus limitations on death penalty appeals. Nadler and members of the Subcommittee explored the current state of death penalty appeals and, specifically, whether the habeas corpus limitations are resulting in executions of innocent defendants who are barred from introducing key new evidence in their cases.
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