Bill Pascrell

Before I start, I include in the Record two articles. One is a letter from the National Fraternal Order of Police, representing 330,000 police officers in this country coming out against this bill because it will affect their members in a…

If it weren't bad enough, Mr. Speaker--and I come over to this side for a reason: I have got many brothers and sisters whom I love here--this is a terrible bill. Unanimous consent here. The real price of this bill is hidden. $30 billion in…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on: Passage of the bill, if…

This is the final amendment to the bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to the committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended. Mr. Speaker, this amendment would require the FEMA…

In this form, yes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Pascrell moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 2874, to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions to report the…

Families in my friend's State, the great State of Georgia, will lose a tax deduction of $9,000, those families, on average. I think you are concerned about that. You cannot fib that you are not. And the fact of the matter is you used the…

So, now that you have agreed to the fact the families are going to get shafted but corporations will continue to be able to deduct their local and State taxes, this is pertinent to the budget, my friend, through the Speaker. Right in the…

My colleagues representing New Jersey, New York, Illinois, California, Minnesota, and so many other States, including Georgia, including Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, better think long and hard about their vote today. The American people are…

48th, 49th State, that is where New Jersey is in getting back the money we send down to Washington. Who subsidizes whom? And Mnuchin, go back and tell the Secretary of the Treasury he doesn't know what he is talking about. He says New…

I will make it short, but I could stay here all afternoon on this because I feel it in my bone marrow. We are talking about tax cuts. We are increasing the tax burden on the middle class, and you cannot deny it. There is no place in that…

There are some real terrible parts to this budget, but this, to me, is the worst. This deduction has been part of our tax system before there was an income tax, going back to the Civil War, for the very reasons that my friend from…

I agree with the Chairman that the miscellaneous trade bill would provide some much-needed relief to United States manufacturers and the workers across the country.

We believe the new rigorous process is rightly focused on ensuring that the current and imminent U.S. manufacturing is not harmed.

I would like to comment in response to my friend, Mr. Doggett's concerns...

We need to talk about what is measurable in terms of helps the stagnant wages in the United States of America.

There is much to be said here, but if we remember the Bristol-Myers Squibb case, they avoided prosecution for securities fraud in exchange for $5 million to the Governor's law school alma mater. Now, that is what is going on. Mr. Chairman…

Mr. Ranking Member, Chairman Goodlatte, I start by expressing my appreciation to Chairman Goodlatte for acknowledging the actions that were taken by the Governor of New Jersey when he was the U.S. attorney back in 2006 to 2007. By the way…

I think you mentioned or referred to our largest trading partner is China, $578 billion in trade between our countries, and a trade deficit of $347 billion.

I think it is critical that we have a public hearing on the trade agreement, the renegotiation process, and what the threat of withdrawal means to our economy, our workers and our communities.

President Trump has had an incoherent and unpredictable trade policy.

We need to take very careful--I just leave this question in the air right now.

The United States has lost five million manufacturing jobs in the last 16 years.

I am making all my remarks through the Chair. Mr. Chairman, 1 percent would be the recipients of 80 percent of the Republican tax cuts within 10 years. This budget, like the phony tax plan, is a joke and is insulting to us as Members of…

So let's be clear about who is playing politics here. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut continue to feel the effects of Hurricane Sandy, just as Carolinians, Utahns, people from West Virginia and Louisiana still feel the effects of the…

This bill needlessly pits residents of Texas and Florida against residents of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Louisiana, West Virginia, Utah, and other States. We should treat everyone fairly, and the Reed-Pascrell bill would do that…