Bill Pascrell: “This is serious business. Again, this is not reality TV. This is serious business.”

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…

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

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

Today I unintentionally missed one rollcall vote. Had I been present, I would have voted: ``nay'' on rollcall No. 62--H. Res. 1052, providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2799) the Expanding Access to Capital Act, and providing for…