Bill Pascrell: “The rate of uninsured Americans has declined and is now at the lowest level recorded since 2008.”

I am glad the budget includes finally closing the carried interest loophole, maybe the worst loophole in the entire tax code.

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…

So I am proud of our efforts to make big business and rich tax cheats finally pay their fair share. What the heck is wrong with that? And we have made progress.

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