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To hear him tell it as a newly declared candidate for mayor, former Representative Anthony D. Weiner was a force to be reckoned with on three of the most important issues to New Yorkers: public safety, affordable health insurance and treatment for rescue workers sickened at the site of the World Trade Center attack.

Bipartisan momentum is building for legislation that would give reporters new legal protections from government authorities who want them to reveal their confidential sources.

A member of ExxonMobil's cleanup crew is reflected in water and oil in a drainage ditch in Mayflower, Ark., last month.

A bipartisan group of House members advocated for a shield law Wednesday to protect the press in light of two recent cases in which the Justice Department obtained journalists' records.

While Attorney General Eric Holder's Capitol Hill appearance Wednesday was marked by a heated argument with his chief Republican critic, more and more Democrats are joining the fray -- in a sign that the Justice Department's seizure of journalists' phone records may trigger a bipartisan challenge to his leadership.

May 14 - Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Jerrold Nadler introduced today the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers to make the same reasonable accommodations for pregnancy as they do for disabilities.

It is one of the oldest and thorniest questions of the digital music era: How much should artists and musicians be compensated for the Internet broadcast of their songs? And who gets to decide that rate? You might think in the nearly two decades since music first began streaming over the Internet that some kind of consensus about paying artists ... (more)

West Chelsea is about to get more affordable housing for artists just as area politicians successfully maintained artist housing at Hell Kitchen's Manhattan Plaza .

While advocates for both gay rights and immigration reform pursue comprehensive solutions to the problems they want addressed, one group at the center of both debates is desperately hoping their troubles will finally be over.

A new bipartisan task force created this week by the House Judiciary Committee will look at the possible "over-criminalization" of minor offenses in the U.S. federal code, which is understood to contribute to America's unmatched rates of incarceration.

Today, Congressmen Jose E. Serrano, Jerrold Nadler and Peter King joined Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska to announce that the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse has received $10.4 million in federal funds to build a new state-of-the-art security pavilion.

The contentious hearing, which involved members of the House oversight and judiciary committees, came just one day before the Senate is set to vote on whether to confirm Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, who heads the Justice Department's civil rights division.

A federal courthouse blocks from the World Trade Center site in Manhattan is getting a $10.4 million security boost, more than a decade after the Sept.

Congress is joining U.S. DOT in committing more resources to a national freight plan , a more strategic way of moving goods than the current haphazard and fragmented current approach.

Christina Ricci, Melissa Etheridge and the entire cast of the Tony-nominated "Kinky Boots" were among the many who gave standing ovations at Pier 60 on New York's chic Westside as actor/producer Dan Bucatinsky, former Family Equality Council Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler and United States vs.

LGBT families and same-sex couples will most likely not be included in 884 pages of immigration reform legislation dubbed the "Gang of Eight Bill," expected to be introduced in the Senate next week.

Flight delays aren't the only high-profile problem created by budget sequestration.

According to sources, Rep. Jerrold Nadler has decided to hold off on introducing the Respect for Marriage Act until after the court rules on DOMA.

House Republicans couldn't put together enough votes Wednesday for a bill that would have propped up one ObamaCare program while cutting another.