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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, introduced the Sunshine in Litigation Act of 2010 in order to stop preventable injuries, accidents and deaths caused by lack of public access to critical consumer information. The bill would restore public accountability in our judicial system by ensuring that public health and safety are properly taken into account when decisions are made about keeping information concerning public health or safety issues discovered in litigation secret.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Peter King, Michael McMahon, Eliot Engel, Anthony Weiner, José E. Serrano, and Joseph Crowley applauded the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s passage of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, legislation that would provide comprehensive health care and compensation for the first responders and survivors who are sick because of the 9/11 attacks.
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and completely stop the use of toxic dispersants in BP’s Gulf Coast cleanup.
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives adopted Congressman Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) resolution, H.Con.Res 137, in support of stable housing as a key component in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The resolution expresses the “sense of the Congress that the lack of adequate housing must be addressed as a barrier to effective HIV prevention, treatment, and care, and that the United States should make a commitment to providing adequate funding for developing housing as a response to the AIDS pandemic.”
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
New York, NY – Today, U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, and Anthony Weiner announced a crucial vote in Congress this week for the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, legislation that would provide comprehensive health care and compensation for those who are sick because of the 9/11 attacks. (Click here for a summary of the legislation.) Maloney, Nadler, and Weiner made the announcement at a press conference this afternoon at Ground Zero and were joined by Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy, Lieutenants Benevolent Association President Thomas Sullivan, and DC 37 Health and Safety Director Lee Clarke; as well as 9/11 contractors Rich Wood of Plaza Construction and Pat DiFilippo of Turner Construction; Catherine McVay Hughes of Manhattan Community Board 1; and 9/11 responders Det. John Walcott, Marvin Bethea, and Alex Sanchez.
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), a longtime champion of congressional efforts to seek justice for rape victims and more quickly process DNA rape kits, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on the overwhelming need to eliminate the national backlog of DNA rape testing.
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) spoke out in support of Israel’s right to self-defense and of H.R. 5327, the United States-Israel Missile Defense Cooperation and Support Act, which would authorize assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the senior Northeastern member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, hailed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s purchase of Greenville Yards in Jersey City for the development of a modern intermodal facility for the movement of containerized solid waste and other commodities by rail and barge. This important acquisition, funded through an appropriation secured by Rep. Nadler, will further the Port Authority’s efforts to take trucks off of the roads and transition to more sustainable modes of freight movement.
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler are urging Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag to approve contracts and funding for federal programs to treat and monitor the health of those who were exposed to toxins released by the 9/11 attacks. In a letter dated yesterday to Orszag (a copy of which can be found below), Maloney and Nadler note that the World Trade Center responder health program, the 9/11 Mental Health and Substance Use Benefit Program, and the World Trade Center Health Registry will all have to cease operating in the near future unless OMB makes the contract and funding approvals, some of which have been pending for seven months.
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Wednesday, 05 May 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 the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), exploring what type of reforms may be necessary to bring the law up to date with recent advances in technology.
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