Bill Pascrell: “The bill before us today did not go through committee like a bill this large should. We could have offered amendments to…”

“The bill before us today did not go through committee like a bill this large should. We could have offered amendments to address some of the most pressing issues with this tax bill. I would have started with how this bill cherry-picks winners and losers, with many of the losers being in States like the State I live in, the State of New Jersey. This is, again, let me repeat, ``Weekend at Bernie's.'' They prop up the dead tax bill, make it look alive, and then they bring in something that makes it look even more dead. That didn't work; this will not work. You didn't run on it; you will not run on this. {time} 1615 Our State got slammed by the new cap on the State and local tax deduction, better known as SALT, State and local taxes, the oldest deduction in the books. The GOP tax scam took money from homeowners and communities in my State and others to fund their massive giveaway to big corporations. The data is there. It is clear. It is succinct. It is definitive. Republicans even bragged about using their tax scam to hurt New Jersey and the region. Imagine that. Imagine bragging about deliberately hurting millions of people. My amendment would have restored this critical deduction, but it was blocked. This bill before us today provides targeted relief to victims of disasters, but only a select few.…”