Bill Pascrell: “Critical to any implementation of communication and interoperability, we saw what a disaster that was on 9/11.”

I regrettably missed 22 roll call votes. Had I been present, I would have voted: Nay on Roll Call No. 359 on Ordering the Previous Question; No on Roll Call No. 360 on Agreeing to H. Res. 1370; YEA on Roll Call No. 361 on S. 3706; YEA on…

I thank the members of the Energy and Commerce Committee on both sides of the aisle for this reauthorization act. The time flies. When we put this together 5 years ago, it was bipartisan, as well. Our fire heroes run into burning buildings…

Our job--I thought our job was to protect the least of these among us, our seniors and our children.

And I am not giving up because if we don't do that we continue to send the wrong message to the taxpayers.