Jerry Nadler

I first want to note that this is our first Subcommittee hearing of the 112th Congress and your first as Chairman.

You are not going to get private sector investment on a long term project if you have very uneven public sector involvement.

How can we get the private sector to cooperate with the public sector, because neither is going to do it alone?

We should be able to go ahead with that rapidly.

I hope the Republicans as a whole don't go along with that; who knows.

Obviously, we need high speed rail.

He did fail to report some income because he mistakenly believed that the income which was plowed back into the mortgages from which he never saw a check was not reportable. This was wrong. But it was one ongoing error, not cumulative and…

We must now ensure that the Federal Government provides long-term, comprehensive health care and compensation to all of the first-responders and survivors affected by 9/11.

The government failed its bravest citizens.

Thanks to Senator Gillibrand's hard work and attention to this matter, I am pleased that we are making progress on this legislation.

We owe a tremendous moral debt, because it wasn't simply that the terrorists did this, it's also that the Federal Government misled people.

This legislation is completely necessary, for any number of reasons, one of which is, we cannot depend on the annual appropriations process.

It's imperative we pass this legislation.

It is unquestionably the case that there is a massive exposure, that people have gotten sick, that people who don't know they're sick yet, will get sick.

So in other words, one has to assume that if X percent of people would have been executed but for DNA evidence where DNA evidence is available, then probably a similar amount of people who are innocent are executed where the DNA evidence…

To me, it is a clear case of someone who was executed even though they were innocent in this country.

I would hate to see us completely eviscerate a State's rights to impose punishment.

Wouldn't it be better, instead of wasting a lot of time, money, and effort as to whether the procedures were followed properly, to get to the heart of the matter on the merits?

I thank Chairman Nadler for holding this important hearing and for his indispensable assistance in helping to develop H.R. 3986.

This bill will fix the law as it stands to protect innocent Americans from execution.

I believe we should revisit the restrictions placed on the habeas petitions of death row inmates in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

This is not only unacceptable, but it undermines the very integrity of our criminal justice system.

The death penalty is our society's most severe and permanent punishment.

We need to pass the 'Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act,' and quickly, before another potentially innocent American is executed.

The writ of habeas corpus is one of the most fundamental safeguards in our Constitution to prevent the imprisonment and execution of innocent people.