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...JERROLD NADLER (D) District...
...Nadler won his seat after incumbent Ted Weiss died on the eve of the Democratic primary. The late Weiss still won the primary, leaving it to party leaders to choose a new nominee. They tapped Nadler, who then swept the general election with 81% of the vote. He has fought to help restore Brooklyn's waterfront and introduced the Mothers and Infants Good Health Act, which ensures mothers a minimum 48-hour hospital stay after delivery...
...next year, at elite Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, Morris joined the debate club, displaying a talent for arguing any side of any issue ("Truth is that which cannot be proved false," he said) and teaming up with a group of budding pols that included future Congressman Jerrold Nadler and state assemblyman Richard Gottfried. "Dick was always the leader," says Gottfried, "the most creative thinker, the most energetic worker, the one on the phone at 2 in the morning telling you what had to be done. He was already that...
...unfairly single out arsonists--who, like polluters and toxic-waste dumpers, are no doubt represented by a powerful, well-funded lobby--the proposed Amendment says, "The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." But Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, objected that desecration has religious overtones. Someone may think Congress was trying to sneak by the First amendment and establish a religion-a religion centered on the worship of flags or, depending on how the definition works out, bikinis and underwear. Accordingly, the quick-thinking Reed proposed...
...soothe the civil libertarians: An anti-flag-burning amendment is not a problem precisely because no one is much tempted to burn flags. A prohibition on flag burning should rest as lightly on the land as, say, a law forbidding the eating of caterpillars with cream cheese. Representative Nadler's worries about the separation of church and state can similarly be put to rest. It would be one thing if Congress were trying to establish a genuine religion, requiring, for example, that one pray to the President or the Speaker of the House. But all we are being asked...