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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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 H.R. 3721, the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. The Subcommittee explored whether older employees are afforded sufficient protections from age discrimination in the workplace since the 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc.
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, and Peter King, authors of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, issued the following statements on the revised settlement announced today of thousands of lawsuits filed by workers who participated in rescue and recovery efforts at Ground Zero:
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of sanctions against Iran:
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley (D-IL), Sam Farr (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Anthony Weiner (D-NY) called for Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) discriminatory blood donation policy. The current policy forbids men from donating life-saving blood if they have engaged in even a single sexual act with another man since 1977.
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Monday, 07 June 2010 |
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), reiterated his call for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to come to the aid of thousands of local families in danger of falling through the cracks. At a press conference with New York Communities for Change, Nadler demanded that NYCHA make amends for an administrative error last year which led to the distribution of 2,600 worthless Section 8 vouchers to needy families.
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, voiced support for President Obama’s extension of benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees, but reiterated the pressing need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), via Nadler’s Respect for Marriage Act, and to pass the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act – two urgent legislative actions to provide full federal obligations and protections for LGBT individuals and families.
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Rep. James Oberstar (Minn.), Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Labor demanding that all response and recovery workers responding to the Deepwater Horizon BP Oil Spill be provided proper protective equipment, including respirators, and that all federal laws governing worker safety and respiratory protection be enforced.
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
NEW YORK, NY – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement on the attempt by the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza:
“Monday’s violence was a sad but predictable result of the deliberate provocation on the part of the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ organizers. Knowing full well that Israel could not permit the Gaza blockade to be forcefully defied, the Flotilla purposely initiated a violent confrontation. But Israel has the right to enforce a blockade in order to keep weapons from the Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tonight, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, hailed the House’s historic vote to repeal the discriminatory policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in the United States Armed Forces. The repeal amendment was offered by Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) and included in the National Defense Authorization Act.
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at a Judiciary Hearing on Gulf Coast liability issues, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Judiciary Committee, reiterated his call for BP to stop using toxic dispersants in its Gulf Coast cleanup efforts. He warned that the cleanup itself – and not only the oil spill – could now create disastrous environmental and health problems for both marine and human life. During his questioning of BP executives, BP refused to accept liability for damages caused by dispersants.
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