20 Facts About Jerry Nadler

Jerrold Lewis Nadler is an American lawyer and politician who since 2023 has served as the US representative for, which includes central Manhattan.

Jerry Nadler chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2023.

Jerry Nadler was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Miriam and Emanuel "Max" Jerry Nadler.

Jerry Nadler described his father as a "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" who lost his poultry farm in New Jersey when the younger Jerry Nadler was seven.

Jerry Nadler graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1965.

In 1972, Jerry Nadler was a legislative assistant in the New York State Assembly before becoming shift manager at the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation, a position he held until becoming a law clerk with Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley and Lee in 1976.

Jerry Nadler 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.

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

Jerry Nadler won both handily, and has been reelected 15 times with no substantive opposition.

Jerry Nadler is the ranking member of the US House Committee on the Judiciary and is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure committees.

Jerry 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".

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

Jerry 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.

Jerry Nadler has opposed tax breaks for high-income earners, saying that the country cannot afford it.

Jerry Nadler sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act in 2004 and 2007.

In 2015, Jerry 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.

In 2020, Jerry Nadler praised a judge for a ruling that could lead to the removal of 20 or more stories in an already constructed 52-story luxury high-rise building in the Upper West Side of New York City.

In July 2019, Jerry Nadler introduced the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act that, among other reforms, seeks to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act.

Jerry Nadler gained national prominence during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, when he described the process as a "partisan railroad job".

In 2002 and 2003, Jerry Nadler had laparoscopic duodenal switch surgery, helping him lose more than 100 pounds.