Bill Pascrell

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield to my brother, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Platts).

I would like to ask the gentleman from Florida, Mr. Chairman, to engage in a colloquy on the need for traumatic brain injury funding for post-acute guidelines for our returning troops. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that medical…

I would contend that even before it is only 20 percent in effect that the health care act has had an effect on the very costs that we are trying to reduce because we are never going to have a Medicare program that is able to keep up with…

I believe we are broke, but we're morally broke, that's how we're broke. Let's be straight here. What's our vision for America? That's got to be the barometer. What do we want this country to be in the future? We can say we certainly don't…

First, I want to thank Mr. LaTourette for, as usual, taking on a very, very exquisite subject here and not coming late to the fight. So I am proud to rise in strong support of this bipartisan amendment. I want to thank my good friend from…

We better not forget how we got here in the first place. The President, when he raised his hand in January of 2009, inherited a $10.6 trillion debt. Let us not forget history. I know this is like a Kabuki dance today. You're not only not…

As Co-Chair of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, for the last ten years I have fought for patients with brain injuries. Traumatic brain injury (TB!) is the signature wound of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While we made…

Now, we don't have a value-added tax in the United States, do we?

Gentlemen, don't you blame me for being concerned, or fault me for being concerned, that in New Jersey, the State that I am from, that State and the State of Delaware pay a lot more in taxes on individual filers because of this situation.

Absolutely incorrect.

And how is this paid for? This is paid for by those folks who do pay taxes in this country.

We have the lowest--that we have the lowest--taxes on a corporate income of any of those countries.

We do do very well when we talk about the effective rate.

I believe we come out of this, or at this, from two different perspectives, and that is very unfortunate.

And it would be foolish to take a position of anti-business, particularly in a time when so many of our own people are out of work throughout the nation.

Well, how did you pay for it, then? Tell me.

The average American has no one to turn to, usually, and is a victim.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Let's look at the facts and the detail, rather than the myths.

I really do have a strong concern with that we have touched on in a couple of hearings is this new medical device tax that is going to be a tax on innovation, a tax on R&D.

The amount of business investment under three presidents... is very eye-opening.

I want to know one thing, first of all, is how much was your fine, as stated in that settlement?

I don't know of a person that sits in the Congress that doesn't want tax fairness.

Tourism at the Jersey Shore supports jobs for over 500,000 people, generates over $50 billion in economic activity every year. These people depend on the responsible stewardship of our waters and coasts for their livelihoods. Let's set the…

I want to state for the Record that on May 5, 2011, I missed the six rollcall votes of the day, as I was attending a wreath laying ceremony at Ground Zero with President Obama. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall…