Bill Pascrell: “If you can't shoot the dog, starve it. That is what this is all about.”

We are not going to solve this problem by threatening academia.

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

I am proud to say that SAFER awarded more than $5 billion to departments to hire, recruit, and retain firefighters. These grants are amongst the most effective in the entire Federal budget. Fire departments rely on the Fire Administration…

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