1. Early life, education, and early political career

2. New York Assembly

3. U.S. House of Representatives
    Elections  Tenure  Committee assignments  Caucus memberships 

4. Personal life

5. See also

6. References

7. External links

Jerrold Lewis Nadler ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|æ|d|l|ər}}; born June 13, 1947) is an American attorney and politician who serves as the U.S. Representative from {{ushr|NY|10}}. Currently in his 14th term in congress, he has served since 1992. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

The district, numbered as the 17th District from 1992 to 1993 and as the 8th District from 1993 to 2013, includes the west side of Manhattan from the Upper West Side down to Battery Park, including the World Trade Center. It also includes the Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, and Greenwich Village, as well as parts of Brooklyn such as Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Bay Ridge. It includes many of New York City's most popular tourist attractions, including the Statue of Liberty, New York Stock Exchange, Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park.^[1][2]

Early life, education, and early political career

Nadler was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the son of Miriam (Schreiber) and Emanuel "Max" Nadler.^[3][4] He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965^[5] (where his debate team partner was the future philosopher of science Alexander Rosenberg, and his successful campaign for student government president was managed by Dick Morris).^[6]

Nadler received his B.A. degree from Columbia University, where he became a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi,^[7] in 1969. He received his J.D. degree from the part-time evening program of Fordham University School of Law while serving in the New York State Assembly in 1978.

New York Assembly

He was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 1992, sitting in the 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th and 189th New York State Legislatures.

In 1985, he ran for Manhattan Borough President. He lost the Democratic primary to David Dinkins.^[8] In the general election, he ran as the New York Liberal Party nominee, and was again defeated by Dinkins.

In 1989, he ran for New York City Comptroller. In the Democratic primary, he lost to Kings County D.A. Elizabeth Holtzman.

Nadler founded and chaired the Assembly Subcommittee on Mass Transit and Rail Freight.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

In 1992, Ted Weiss was expected to run for re-election in the 8th District, which had been renumbered from the 17th after the 1990 U.S. Census. However, Weiss died a day before the primary election. Nadler was nominated to replace Weiss. He ran in two elections on Election Day{{spaced ndash}} a special election to serve the rest of Weiss's term, and a regular election for a full two-year term. He won both handily, and has been re-elected 12 times with no substantive opposition, never dropping below 75 percent of the vote in one of the most Democratic districts in the country. The district was renumbered as the 10th District after the 2010 census. A Republican has not represented this district or its predecessors in over a century.^[9]

Tenure

Nadler is the chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary and is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure committees.^[10]

Despite earlier efforts to bring impeachment charges against George W. Bush,^[11] and more recent requests from fellow representatives, he did not schedule hearings on impeachments for Bush or Dick Cheney, saying in 2007 that doing so would be pointless and would distract from the presidential election.^[12] In an interview in Washington Journal on July 15, 2008, Nadler reiterated the timing defense ^[13] while stating that Bush had committed impeachable offenses, but that nothing could be done because the system is "overly political". Ten days later, following upon submission of Articles of Impeachment by Representative Dennis Kucinich, the full House Judiciary Committee held hearings covered solely by C-SPAN ^[14] regarding the process. A top Ronald Reagan Justice Department official, Bruce Fein, was among those testifying for impeachment.

On a similar note, referring to hypothetical impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump that would begin in the newly elected Democrat-controlled House, he suggested a "three-pronged test" that "would make for a legitimate impeachment proceeding". Such a test would include "that the offenses in question must be so grave", and "the evidence so clear", that "even some supporters of the president concede that impeachment is necessary". If determined that the president committed an impeachable offense, lawmakers must consider if such an offense would “rise to the gravity where it’s worth putting the country through the trauma of an impeachment proceeding,” Nadler stated.^[15]

Nadler said in a December 2008 interview that he was interested in the U.S. Senate seat that Hillary Clinton was planning to resign to become U.S. Secretary of State in the Obama Administration. He cited his opposition to the war in Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 as among his principal qualifications.^[16]

Nadler urged the Attorney General in December 2008 to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top Bush officials for violating the law on torturing prisoners in US custody.^[17]

In January 2011, Nadler called the new GOP majority's plan to read the Constitution on the House floor "ritualistic" and complained that it treated the Constitution like "a sacred text" for "propaganda" purposes.^[18]

Surveillance

Nadler was unhappy with the passage of the surveillance-reform compromise bill, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, saying it "abandons the Constitution's protections and insulates lawless behavior from legal scrutiny".^[19]

Income taxes

Nadler compared Obama's acceptance of Republican demands to extend Bush-era tax cuts at the highest income levels to someone being roughed-up by the mob, asserting that the Republicans would only allow the middle class tax cut if millionaires and billionaires receive a long-term tax cut as well.^[20]

Nadler has proposed changing the income tax brackets to reflect different regions and their costs of living, which would have lowered the tax rate for New Yorkers.^[21][22] Nadler has opposed giving tax breaks to high-income earners, saying that the country cannot afford it.^[20]

Abortion

Nadler has also vowed to re-introduce the Freedom of Choice Act during the Obama administration.^[23] He has a 100% rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America.^[24]

Same-sex marriage

On September 15, 2009, Nadler, along with two other representatives, introduced the Respect for Marriage Act.^[25]

Occupy Wall Street

Nadler sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. requesting that Holder investigate whether the police monitoring the Occupy protests had deprived the protestors' Constitutional rights. It was reported that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City had "ridiculed" Nadler's call for an investigation into police conduct. Bloomberg suggested he would be able to make the streets safer by getting money for homeland security instead.^[26]

Immigration

In March 2019, as the House debated President Trump's veto of a measure unwinding his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, Nadler said, "I'm convinced that the president's actions are unlawful and deeply irresponsible. A core foundation of our system of government and of democracies across the world going back hundreds of years is that the executive cannot unilaterally spend taxpayer money without the legislature's consent."^[27]

Iran

In 2015, Nadler voted to support an agreement to lift economic sanctions against Iran in exchange for Iran's compliance with the terms of the agreement which called for substantial dismantling and scaling back of their nuclear program.^[28]

Voting record

Nadler has a liberal voting record in the House. He gained national prominence during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, when he described the process as a "partisan railroad job."^[29]

His Medicare proposal includes a section that provides for a consortium of organization to study Ground Zero illness.^[30]

According to the National Journal, Nadler is one of seven members of the House of Representatives who tie for most liberal.^[31]

Committee assignments

• Committee on the Judiciary (Chairman)
  • Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
  • Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Subcommittee on Highways and Transit
  • Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials

Caucus memberships

• Congressional Arts Caucus^[32]
• Congressional Progressive Caucus^[33]
• Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus^[34]

Personal life

In 2002 and 2003, Nadler had laparoscopic duodenal switch surgery, helping him lose more than 100 pounds.^[35][36][37]

See also

• List of Jewish members of the United States Congress

References

External links

• Congressman Jerry Nadler official site at the U.S. House
• Jerry Nadler for Congress
• {{Dmoz|Regional/North_America/United_States/New_York/Government/Federal/US_House_of_Representatives/Jerrold_Nadler_%5BD-10%5D|Jerry Nadler}}
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• Article on the impeachment of Dick Cheney, ZMag{{when|date=August 2013}}
• 2008 congressional screening questionnaire response from the 504 Democratic Club

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