Bill Pascrell

This is serious business. Again, this is not reality TV. This is serious business.

That doesn't make sense to me.

We needed a hurricane. You know, we needed this hurricane to wake us up on one level.

It could kill a lot of people. Or at least a million people would be in danger. I am not exaggerating this.

Here is my question, the legislation that Peter King and I introduced on weapons of mass destruction... we still haven't.

The resolution before us today is an exercise in hypocrisy. Mr. Speaker, just a few days ago, before coming down to D.C., we had a commemoration for Monsignor Vincent Puma, who started rehab for drug addicts and for those folks addicted to…

We're going to start with me? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair would remind Members to direct their remarks to the Chair.

This is what Governor Romney signed in 2005, Mr. Speaker: Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit, and the ability to coordinate State programs are all important aspects of moving…

I thank the ranking member. Mr. Speaker, this bill makes it as clear as day just what the priorities of the majority are. Instead of working with us to shift the tax burden away from the middle class--who haven't gotten a raise in a long…

To those Members concerned with tax fairness: today, wealth concentrated with the top 1 percent is at the same level as the period immediately preceding the Great Depression. So you shrunk the middle class with your great economic ideas…

It gets frightening and weird and scary when both sides agree in this Congress.

So we made a big mistake in listening to corporate America 30 years ago, in moving towards a service economy while we have lost millions and millions of manufacturing jobs.

Despite the rhetoric, the majority is yet to propose a replacement that will cover all of the people they want to throw off the health care rolls. And they continue to ignore the number one priority of the American people: creating jobs. A…

Albert Einstein once said the definition of ``insanity''--and you've heard this before, Madam Speaker--is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Well, we've already voted over 30 times to repeal or restrict the…

On July 9, 2012, I missed the following rollcall votes of the day. Had I been present I would have voted 1. Yes rollcall vote No. 452 H.R. 4155--Veteran Skills to Jobs Act 2. Yes rollcall vote No. 453. H.R. 4367--To amend the Electronic…

I am also incredibly concerned with the timing of this bill with reports of election fraud in Russia.

I must say about what we have before us today, yeah, we must deal with the cards that we have dealt to us.

I would say that perhaps maybe the chairman or some of us would have asked for this committee hearing not to happen today, because this the kind of betrayal that we are very used to.

When people dismiss the question of human rights as almost like an addendum, that really sets me off.

I ask unanimous consent to remove Congressman Harold Rogers and Congressman Rick Berg from H.R. 3238. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Amodei). Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from New Jersey? There was no objection…

We can't change Russia. Russians change Russia.

I am worried that my colleagues across the aisle hope to offset a big chunk of the cost on the backs of beneficiaries.

And to pay for this change, the majority once again returns to the true-up provision--how many times are you going to go there?--which only hurts the middle class, who receive needed subsidies to enter the health insurance market. So…

I thank the ranking member. This bill repeals the 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices used in the United States that was originally enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act. Now let's talk straight to the American people. How many…

Treasury could prohibit U.S. banks from accepting wire transfers or honoring credit cards from banks found to significantly hinder U.S. tax enforcement. We all support, I would hope, in this body, enforcement of the tax law. As much as we…