Honorable Jerrold Nadler
United States Representative, New York, Democrat
Representative Nadler, of the Eighth District of New York, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the New York Assembly from 1976 to 1992. He sits on the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, and on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The following is from the March 22, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 1433, the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2007. It is a disgrace, a blot on our Nation that the citizens of our Capital do not have a…