Bill Pascrell

I do not think anybody, Democrat, Republican, Independent, would conclude from what--looking at their behavior that they need to, in some way, be impacted.

The Economic Policy Institute reports that 3.4 million jobs, American jobs, have been lost due to China trade since 2001.

A new approach is needed. The question now is what is the new approach, and will it be effective?

Republicans have not done much of anything up to now to confront this issue.

I and many Democrats in Congress have a strong record on calling out China for their trade cheating.

No one wins a trade war.

This Congress and the very people in this room should have the most to say about what direction we go in in trade.

They, the Republicans, passed a tax bill that promotes off-shoring.

Do you agree that Mexico has failed to live up to its obligations with respect to NAFTA's labor side agreement, yes or no?

This is a pattern, a plague on both parties. No one is individually responsible.

We need to provide the Social Security Administration with more resources to reduce wait times for paying benefits.

These types of numbers are outrageous, and they are unacceptable, and we cannot argue them away.

And what that does is increase the lack of credibility in government. And it seems to me that that may be an objective of some people who get elected to come to this House.

We have had expiration times in the last 5 or 6 years, but we always come together. We passed last week the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill in Trade. I think that is a good sign moving forward, working together in order to protect--not be…

The Social Security Administration budget has declined 11 percent since 2010.

Your first responsibility and my first responsibility is to the country, not to any political party, not to any President.

This is outrageous, this is unacceptable, especially since candidate Trump promised to improve the treatment of veterans and promised not to cut Social Security.

This habit of short-term funding extensions and kicking the can down the road--I heard that a few times--are irresponsible and have to stop. We need a long-term funding bill. Democrats have come to the table and offered bipartisan…

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