Thomas R. Suozzi: “Well, I thank Mr. Pascrell very much for his comments. I wanted to mention that the gentleman served as the mayor of his…”

Do we need to fund the police? Yes.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for bringing attention to this important issue. I am going to talk about the State and local tax deduction in some detail, but first let me just say generally that what we are talking…

I think that the world is coming to realize that--you know, our view, ever since Nixon went to China, that the more that China was exposed to us the more they'd become like us--with democracy and capitalism--just hasn't happened.

I thank Mr. Lawler, and I thank all of my colleagues for standing here together today. Mr. Speaker, 8 years ago, I met a 14-year-old Solomon Schechter School freshman at the local Salute to Israel event at the Sid Jacobson JCC on Long…