Bill Pascrell

I rise this evening to command the attention of my colleagues to a potentially deadly and amazingly overlooked aspect of public safety, the construction of oil and natural gas pipelines in America. Unbeknownst to millions of Americans…

millions of students across this country will get onto school buses and bikes to go back to school this week. Unfortunately, many of our Nation's students will be returning to crowded classrooms, run-down school buildings and outdated…

I rise to explain why I will vote to uphold the President's veto today. I am on Record as having voted for H.R. 8 as well as the Democratic plan. The estate tax puts an undue burden on small business owners and farms who are the heart of…

In the land of freedom, this may be the last time we debate the issue on the floor of the Congress, the Congress of the people, the House of the people; this may be the last time we debate the issue of trade with China. Sadly, this could…

I am the proud sponsor of the Firefighter Investment and Response Enhancement Act, better known as the Fire Bill. It has almost 280 sponsors. The bill will provide competitive grants directly to over 32,000 paid, part-paid, and volunteer…

I am here to express my opposition to the Hostettler amendment. To me, this is the most mean-spirited amendment I have ever seen on this floor. It cuts to the chase. It prohibits the Office of Housing and Urban Development from using funds…

With this amendment I seek to correct the great neglect, Mr. Chairman, with which the Veterans Administration treats many of our Nation's veterans. The neglect to which I refer is the VA's lack of effort in reaching out to our veterans and…

early Sunday morning, throughout New Jersey, one could hear screams of joy coming from thousands of homes, diners, and bars. Jason Arnott had just scored the shot heard around the Garden State. After last night, we have some levity and…

this morning I would like to address something we started to talk about last evening, and that is the vote we will be taking probably tomorrow on China and our trade relations with China. The minority leader wrote a book last year, An Even…

I dreamt that there was an uprising in China against the authoritarian dictatorship, and that we in America sided with a government which we have helped prop up. That is a nightmare. Have we lost our moral compass altogether? This vote is…

The time has arrived for a vote on what is now commonly referred to as permanent normal trade relations, or PNTR, for China. We used to call this MFN, or most-favored-nation status. I suppose the proponents thought PNTR sounded kinder and…

this is National Hospital Week, when communities all across America honor the individuals that make hospitals the foundations of our community. This year's theme sums it up very nicely: ``Touching the Future With Care.'' It recognizes the…

I think that this change is in order and is something that all the sides have agreed upon. We should move quickly as our first down payment on what we will hope will be the beginning of a series of responses to the 32,000 fire departments…

Mr. Chairman, nearly 2 years ago I proudly introduced H.R. 4229, the 21st Century Fire and Public Safety Act. It was a bill to provide competitive grants directly to over 32,000 paid, part-time, part-paid volunteer fire departments across…

I am alarmed to hear that the Republican candidate for President is opposed to use the sampling methodologies for the 2000 Census. That methodology has been certified by the National Academy of Sciences, which is the body which determines…

I want to bring one thing, Mr. Speaker, to the attention of the folks here today; and that is this, we have been told by Mr. Greenspan that one of the greatest threats to the growth in the economy is we do not have enough workers, skilled…

over the past few weeks, the Republican leadership has taken their year of budgetary gimmicks to a new level, and I want to address that. Not only have they declared the Census an emergency, something we have been doing through the…

Amendment No. 20 offered by Mr. Pascrell: Page 13, after line 5, insert the following subsection: ``(d) Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases in Women.--The Director shall conduct and support research and build private-public partnerships to…

there is much in this bill that I find to be particularly worthy. Unlike last year, when the Members of this House fought for months over the details of this legislation, the conferees were able to return a final product to this House that…

as a freshman lawmaker in the 105th Congress, I joined a bipartisan coalition of fellow freshmen in crafting legislation that would reform our fatally flawed campaign finance system. I am proud to say that we were able to bridge the…

today we will be debating a piece of legislation that could more than any other single act put an end to the troubling cynicism of the American electorate, the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. In our Nation, the birthplace of modern…

I rise today to encourage quick passage of the Paperwork Elimination Act of 1999. I believe it is an outstanding piece of legislation that enjoys overwhelming bipartisan support. I believed then, as I do today, that reducing bureaucratic…

I have concluded that this president can and should continue in office for the remainder of his elected term. In this famous passage in the Federalist 65, Alexander Hamilton, who has been quoted many times today, who founded the town I am…

a one-year ban is a reasonable and just response to the countries that have defied international law and compromised the security of our own Nation. As to the issue of the World Trade Organization, all I can say is that we do not represent…

we have Federal investment in roads, bridges and prisons, but when it comes to schools for our kids this is a loss of home rule all of a sudden. Bunk. For the Federal Government to help local communities pay the interest on capital bonding…