Bill Pascrell: “I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. The bill provides tax relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy and puts…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. The bill provides tax relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy and puts in place permanent provisions for all disaster areas going forward. I am ready and waiting to debate these provisions and go through regular order. Let's have hearings, let's have a markup, let's have regular order on something that should be as noncontroversial as helping those in need. Instead of taking a bipartisan approach, some in the majority have chosen to sneak in a few provisions taken from our bill and tack them onto an unrelated aviation bill and apply them to only this year's hurricane victims, leaving out all of the disaster victims that been have waiting for support over the years. A front-page story in the papers in New Jersey today says people are still not back in their homes from Sandy, 2013. That is not fair. It is not the American way. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired.”