Bill Pascrell

just for a change of pace, today I wish to bring to your attention the end of an era in my hometown of Patterson, New Jersey. Today marks the last day of the tenure of public safety director Bill Dolan, who served in the capacity for 11…

If I did not mean it, I would not say it. When our institutions are under attack, they choose not to be timid. They choose not to be the yellow light. They choose to come forward. Every one of the folks on each side stated what they wanted…

Alysa Flatow was a student at Brandeis University. She was a woman of great character, both in life and in death. Those who received her organs can attest to the kind of woman she was. Her heart was successfully transplanted to a…

I have heard pretty horrible things on this floor, but I just heard the worst that I have ever heard. To say that someone has the time to fill out a Medicaid form but does not have the time to fill out a census questionnaire misses the…

the 1990 Census was the first in history to be less accurate than its predecessor. It missed millions of Americans, predominantly children and minorities. Virtually every expert agrees that the way to get the most accurate census possible…

If the average campaign costs $660,000, we know that we cannot put a cap on it due to a Supreme Court decision, but working together I am sure we can come to specific advocacy issues of ourselves, such as banning soft money. Because if you…

we will vote on a motion to recommit with specific instructions to strike section 425. This section puts the interest of an industry over the interest of our citizens. Today we won a victory on children's sleepwear fire safety standards…

The average CEO from an HMO makes $6 million a year. It goes up to $20 million a year. A woman in my district recently summed up the problems with our current managed care system in a conversation with me. She asked if there was a way she…

I hold up an ad that was in The Hill today, which cost $3,885 for the record. It is a part of the democracy we live in. I will not name the firm, but the firm writes this: ``This firm is committed to helping China develop sustainable…

it is a travesty when this Congress puts the interests of an industry over the interests of our citizens. I am ashamed that this is what is happening today. This rule not only subjects fire retardant standards for children's sleepwear to a…

Mr. Chairman, when I looked at the government's response to this particular case in July of 1998, where lawyers for the Department of State and the Treasury advised the court that the government would file motions to quash each of the…

In the debate that we are having here on this floor, the two major bills that we are discussing and, according to the Speaker of this House, the bill that we are discussing as a base bill deals with soft money. That is money that comes…

I for one agree with the gentleman from Connecticut, that there should be caps on how much is spent. Under the present Supreme Court decision, that cannot happen. I would say the average congressional campaign, if that is what we are…

we are back to the beginning if we listened to the last two speakers. As in the beginning, we here in this House are divided into two groups, one group that says there is too much money in campaigns and another group that says there is…

the current Congress can be broken into two groups: Those who think there is too much money in politics, and those who think there is not enough. I am of the former belief. During the 1996 election cycle, candidates running for Federal…

there is one overriding fact in here that I would like to stress, if I may, to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Shuster) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), the ranking member, who have done such a marvelous job. This…

the freshman campaign finance bill takes the bold and important step of banning soft money. In the last election Democrats and Republicans combined to raise more than $260 million in soft money. That was a 206 percent increase from 1992…

the current Members of Congress can be broken into two groups, those who think that there is too much money in politics in an election and those who think there is not enough. That goes across party lines. Mr. Speaker, whether we want to…

the efforts of the freshman task force have given us a very real chance for meaningful campaign finance reform. I am committed to seeing that this opportunity is not lost. It is incumbent upon this Congress that we honestly address the…

the supporters of fast track never discuss the massive trade imbalance which grows every year, never. This reflects job loss in America. The supporters are good, very good, at denigrating organized labor's efforts to defeat fast track…

thank God we are in the 105th Congress. That was a chart from the 104th Congress. Specifically speaking, in subtitle 5 of title 49, section 24706, it is very clear what the language is that they are going to take out with the Quinn…

Just today in the papers in New Jersey, and that is in 1990, if one was making in the area of $44,000 to $45,000 a year, since that time, in that 5- or 6-year period that we have the statistics for, one's wages increased $104 in those 5…

tonight I rise to discuss a matter of great importance to my district and to the Nation as a whole, the issue of the renewal of fast-track trade negotiating authority. This is first a consumer issue, second a jobs issue, and third a wage…

the efforts of the bipartisan task force have given us a very real chance for meaningful campaign finance reform. I am committed to seeing that this opportunity is not lost. It is incumbent upon this Congress that we honestly address the…

let us not surrender to the China lobby. I rise today to make known my strong support for House Joint Resolution 79, disapproving the extension of most-favored-nation trading status to Communist China. The debate that this body is now…