Bill Pascrell

We are not going to be discouraged. You know, we don't give up. We are not smart enough to give up.

The proponents of this bill deserve high praise, and I wish them every success toward its enactment.

We created the Talent/Graham Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission because of the extreme gravity of this threat.

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Chairman, I appeal to you to make this an urgent issue. Urgency, I think, is very critical here. So I rise in opposition to the previous question so that we can consider the Homeowner Flood Insurance…

I thank the gentleman. This legislation will prevent premium rate hikes until FEMA completes the affordability study called for in the original Biggert-Waters flood insurance reform legislation, giving FEMA a chance to implement an…

I support the ACA and the intentions behind the employer mandate.

No one can deny that the facts are the facts, that healthcare spending growth has slowed to the lowest levels in 50 years.

I would hope there would be growing support now to vote the unemployment insurance back for those 1.4 million people who lost their long term unemployment insurance, since you want to help those very people.

But I used to be a teacher, and in my classes you didn't get a passing grade for doing the bare minimum.

Everyone wants the law to succeed. Or do they? My friends on the other side, while they may feign concern now, have been actively working to make healthcare reform fail.

Mr. Chairman, I just have to begin by taking exception to something that you said earlier to my good friend.

I voted for the Affordable Care Act. I am proud of it. I want the law to succeed.

Our Governor in our great State of New Jersey, the Ranking Leading Member now in the polls that he is going to be the next President of the United States, he accepted the Medicaid money from the Federal Government.

Michael, thank you for putting this together tonight. I come tonight not only to talk about Barry, but to talk about all the staff. Please understand what I am saying tonight. If you feel that there is an injection in my words of politics…

H.R. 1098, the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013 introduced by Representative Bill Pascrell, which reauthorizes programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, to reduce the incidents of traumatic brain…

What are you going to do about the approximately 17 million children with preexisting conditions who can no longer be denied health insurance coverage?

How many of you stood up to do that? None. Zero.

I rise personally ashamed at the political sideshow in front of the White House perpetrated by Ms. Palin and Senator Cruz and his congressional allies. For Members to protest against the consequences of a shutdown they, themselves, caused…

I thank Mr. Garamendi for bringing us all together tonight. I couldn't stand with better Americans than I am standing with tonight. I mean that. Mr. Speaker, the latest supercommittee plan that folks on the other side of the aisle gave us…

I regret that I was unable to attend today's session of Congress, as I was unavoidably detained in my district. Had I been present, I would have strongly supported passage of H.R. 3223, the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act…

I don't want to believe that this obsession with the debt... we have a debt and we need to address it.

I am counting on you. So you won't allow this issue to be a stalking horse for continued ideological struggle...

How much bigger would the deficit... if we had extended the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 for everyone?

I think that is one of the reasons that we have the problem today.

Tragedy happens, and we say we are shocked. ``This is a quiet neighborhood.'' ``This is a quiet town.'' ``This is a quiet city.'' When you examine the mass shootings in America over the last decade, it becomes abundantly clear that there…