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By David Freedlander 2/06 5:29pm

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Hill Staffers Heart Jerry Nadler

The Sunlight Foundation has crunched the numbers to answer an age-old question: who is the most beloved of all members of Congress on Capitol Hill?

Locally, at least, that answer appears to be Jerry Nadler.

According to a recent report on staff retention, fully 90% of Mr. Nadler's staffers in the third quarter of 2011 were there in the third quarter of 2009.  This ranks Mr. Nadler in the top ten of level of devotion among members of Congress. Michael Capuano, a liberal Democrat from Boston, tops the list with a 94% retention rating. Buffalo's Brian Higgins also makes the Top 20 among his colleagues with a  84 percent retention rate. Read More

By David Freedlander 2/06 1:51pm

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NYC Lawmakers, MTA, Slam GOP Over Transit Cuts

Members of New York City's Democratic Congressional delegation and Metropolitan Transportation Authority chief Joe Lhota gathered at Grand Central Terminal today  to call on House Republicans to cease moving forward on a bill that would strip transit agencies across the country of needed funding.

"We have people shooting dice with the economy of the City and State of New York," said Harlem Congressman Charlie Rangel, the dean of the New York delegation. He added that the bill was a cynical attempt to divide urban from rural America.

"There is no agenda that they have. Every time this issue comes up they try to take away. First just because it is the City of New York, and second, because they have a majority now, they are taking advantage of us." Read More

By David Freedlander 12/16/11 12:38pm

Statements

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Nadler, Ackerman Slam Allen West for Comparing Democrats to Nazis

Yesterday Florida Rep. Allen West said that Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels would be "very proud" of Democrats, after polls showed that Congress was deeply unpopular, but that Republicans generally scored even lower.

"If Joseph Goebbels was around, he'd be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine," Mr. West said.  "I think that you have, and let's be honest, you know, some of the people in the media are complicit in this, in enabling them to get that type of message out." Read More

By David Freedlander 12/16/11 12:07pm

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Schumer, Gillibrand Team Up for Cleaner Trucks

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer are teaming up to allow port cities to set their own fuel efficiency standards for trucks.

“Congress must act to provide New York, and cities all across the country, with the common sense tools they need to improve the quality of air and quality of life for millions of people,” said Senator Gillibrand. “It’s time to update federal laws and allow our nation’s ports to help reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality for all New Yorkers by putting clean trucks on the road.” Read More

4 By David Freedlander 11/01/11 2:25pm

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on October 31, 2011 in New York City.

Local Lawmakers Call for Crackdown at Occupy Wall Street

All four elected officials who represent the area around Zuccotti Park have written Mayor Mike Bloomberg asking him to enforce existing laws surrounding the Occupy Wall Street protests.

The lawmakers--Jerry Nadler on the federal level, Shelly Silver and Daniel Squadron in Albany, and Margaret Chin, the local City Councilmember-- say they give their "full support for the protesters’ First Amendment rights to speak and to assemble in Zuccotti Park. We sympathize with the movement’s message and we feel it is important that their voices be heard." Read More

2 By David Freedlander 11/01/11 9:01am

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Nadler Welcomes Romney To New York

Ken Langone is hosting a major fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Conrad Suite of the Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue today.

And late last night, west side Congressman Jerry Nadler sent a letter to the former Massachusetts governor, welcoming him to our fair city and asking him why he, in Mr. Nadler's words, "so consistently put the needs of working- and middle-class people last?" Read More

3 By David Freedlander 10/04/11 11:47am

Rhetorical Questions

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Nadler: ‘Did Herbert Hoover Win The Last Election?’

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution is holding hearings today on a Balanced Budget Amendment, which led  west side Congressman Jerry Nadler to wonder aloud what century we are in.

“Did Herbert Hoover win the last election?" he said in his prepared remarks to the committee ." If, in the middle of a recession, when tax revenues are down, and unemployment is up, we begin to slash the budget in ways my Republican colleagues are now suggesting, much less the far more draconian measures that this amendment would require, we will go from the Great Recession, right into another Great Depression.  It’s been tried before, and if we want the Constitution to enshrine Hooverism for all time, we will get what we deserve." Read More