Bill Pascrell

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…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from New Jersey will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. DelBene The Acting CHAIR. It is…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, strike lines 21 through 26. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 533, the gentleman from…

As I said, there are currently 18 evidence-based home visiting models. Also, there is nothing added to the budget; no extra currency I am asking for. I would ask the sponsor of the bill what he would tell this woman from Passaic County…

This amendment would strike the provision in the bill that would add increasing employment and earnings to the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, or MIECHV, as it is generally referred to. I, obviously, share the…

We have a problem here. My record is very, very clear. I am providing assistance to any place in this country. In fact, my record is 100 percent. So I have some credibility to come to the floor to discuss this with my friend from Florida…

I thank the gentleman for yielding additional time. The specific provisions Republican leadership put in from our bill include bigger-than-usual property casualty loss deductions, penalty- free retirement withdrawals. He may smile, but…

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…

Hiding behind procedural shenanigans to dodge support for our Nation's law enforcement officers and then pontificating when you come to the floor, that doesn't settle right with me or a lot of other people. {time} 1515 You have done it…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 291, line 17, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $100,000,000) (increased by…

We don't want anybody to get Social Security disability that doesn't deserve it.

New Jersey is way behind everybody else, it looks like, even though no State really stands out as getting a gold star.

There is a $64 billion cut in Social Security disability funds over the next 10 years.

Making a proper SSDI eligibility determination is extremely complex.

We will find a way, if those people are eligible, to get them the assistance that they need?

Maybe we should do this with Social Security, same approach, questions and answers.

I encourage my colleagues to look at it. So let's stop subsidizing companies that ship jobs overseas and start bringing jobs back to our shores. It doesn't get much simpler than that, Mr. Speaker. This is not a new idea. President Obama…

I thank the ranking member and spokesman for the other side. Before I give my remarks, I don't think this is an either/or proposition, Mr. Speaker. Some of the things that my friend from Alaska just talked about make sense. There is…

we are not going to be suckered into the whole of it's the traders versus the isolationists.

Democrats have consistently been vocal, particularly over the last 20 years, about the severe erosion of manufacturing operations and jobs in our own country.

How do we change the terms of NAFTA to create a--new and good-paying jobs?

How do we change the terms of NAFTA to raise wages and standards of living in the United States?

And we have proof of that, don't we?

the number-one priority has to be jobs and wages here in the United States.

The guy that is working in Pueblo is not the enemy. And we have made him the enemy.