Jerry Nadler

I just want to clarify one point.

I think there is a bit of confusion here as to which is Title I and Title II. You might want to specify at both ends.

The senior Senator from New York has been very much involved in the negotiations on this bill.

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I particularly want to mention Congresswoman Maloney, who has worked for, what, 6, 7 years now so heroically and on this problem.

I am hopeful that, with the changes we have made to the bill this year and with the support of my colleagues on the Committee, we can finally pass it this year.

I want to first thank the Chair of the Immigration and Claims Subcommittee, Congresswoman Lofgren, not only for agreeing to hold this joint hearing.

I believe provides the best avenue to making our first responders, area residents, workers, students and others whole.

Excuse me, the Federal Government doesn't have the right to insist on states meeting constitutional rights?

Well, I can't be certain but I know we can try.

Slowly doesn't work. I mean, slowly but surely means that tens of thousands of people do not get their constitutional rights protected.

I think that Mr. Terry and others who work on this issue should agree that it should be not up to third-party organizations to have to go into communities that are not served otherwise to make sure they are registered to vote.

It cannot necessarily be overcome when students or young people or anyone for that matter are standing in line for 9, 10, 11 hours to vote.

I think it is essential. I have said that the campaign financing system is a metastasized cancer in American democracy.

Having said that, my preference would always be for elections.

It is important that we consider whether there should be a uniform national rule to fill such vacancies as there is with vacancies in the House, or whether it would be better to allow the people of each State to decide for them how it…

This is a timely hearing, and the issues we are going to examine are of the utmost importance.

But nothing can match electrification. I don't care what you are doing with locomotive.

I will say two things. Number one, the RESTORE Act, the bill that was pulled from the floor, number one takes care of that technological problem, just as the bill that was passed in August does, by updating and making clear that…

I just want to say that I associate myself with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Weiner and Mr. Crowley. The Asian Longhorned Beetle is a serious problem, and we have to devote as much resources as possible to deal with it. I hope the…

Is your amendment limited to saying you can't use funds to enforce criminal penalties against what the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional, or does it have broader effect against other provisions of the McCain-Feingold bill?

I will respond again. It proves nothing because the fact is that if you are just looking at etymology, it may make sense. But if you look at usage in the Middle East, the Arab and Iranian people who wish the State of Israel eliminated…

Is the gentleman aware that it is standard usage in the Government of Iran and in many of the Arab regimes that since they will not say the word ``Israel,'' they refer to Israel as the Zionist entity or the Zionist regime so that when they…

There are a couple of lessons that really should be learned here. One, Abraham Lincoln said, at the end of the Civil War, that you have to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan. We are failing in…

So the first thing we saw at those hearings were these people testifying about how they selflessly worked, and we know that they did, and how they had been betrayed by every level of government in treating them, by the workers' comp and…