Representative John Adler News

Rep. John Adler announced yesterday that he hopes to require the Department of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress the quality of all the small programs in its hospitals and other medical facilities.

State Sen. Diane Allen has been diagnosed with cancer and will undergo surgery this week.

Rep. John Adler broke from most of his party in the U.S. House to vote against the massive overhaul of the nation's health system, saying the legislation would fail to flatten the ever-rising cost of care.

Burlington County's congressional representatives cast conflicting votes over the weekend on health care reform.

NEW YORK, NY November 09, 2009 a 'President Obama's health care bill passed the House this weekend, but with strong opposition from Republicans, and several Democrats.

Rep. John Adler, D-N.J., the freshman Democratic congressman who wrested a victory out of the once-deeply Republican Third District, announced he will not support his party on the new House health care reform bill, HR3962.

Reporting from Washington - With a historic floor vote looming on their healthcare bill, House Democratic leaders secured an 11th-hour compromise late Friday night to settle a long-simmering debate over how to restrict federal funding for abortion.

This week, by a vote of 37-32, the House Financial Services Committee voted to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to permanently exempt companies valued at less than $75 million from the audit portion of that law.

Over the next few hours : * Beware of the blue screen: Pelosi has exuded confidence that she will have the requisite 218-plus votes for passage, but sometimes land mines appear out of nowhere that put the bill in grave danger.

A Democratic congressman from South Jersey has broken ranks with his state delegation to oppose a $1.1 trillion health care overhaul measure.

THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased to see so many national Democratic leaders whistling a happy tune after last Tuesday's elections.

The process of cleaning up Wall Street is long, complicated, and, not surprisingly, ugly.

Congressman John Adler has aligned himself with Democrats who oppose the health care reform bill up for vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.

When Democrats lost races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia this week, officials in both parties suggested that the outcome could undermine President Obama 's push for a health care bill, scaring off politically vulnerable moderate Democrats at the very moment the White House needed them to get the bill through.

Republican Whip Eric Cantor has some quotes from House Democrats: Rep. John Adler : "We Will Be Unable To Support Any Health Care Legislation That Doesn't Meet The President's Goal Of Driving Down And Holding Down Cost Of Health Care As Determined By The CBO." "Sustainability requires that the burden on the American taxpayer and the federal budget ...

Addressing rising health care costs is necessary to our country's economic recovery and small businesses are a driving force of our economy.

It took just five weeks after the WorldCom accounting scandal erupted in 2002 for Congress to pass, and President George W. Bush to sign, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

A weekend visit to Afghanistan convinced Rep. John Adler, D-N.J., that he should support any forthcoming request for more troops from the Obama administration because there is a clear chance to "achieve definable success" for America's goals there, the congressman said Thursday.

Democrats held on to their comfortable majority in New Jersey's Assembly, presenting a challenge to Christopher J. Christie, the former U.S. attorney who defeated incumbent Democratic Gov.

Republicans have retained both seats in southern New Jersey's 9th District, one of several districts touched by corruption this year.