WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today celebrated passage in the House of Representatives of the Water Resources and Development Act (WRDA).   “The Water resources bill that passed in the House includes a host of priorities I sought to directly study and combat flooding occurring throughout Northern New Jersey,” said Congressman Pascrell.… Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today issued the following statement on the conviction of U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on federal corruption charges.   “This is a sad final chapter to what was a productive career,” said Congressman Pascrell. “For the good of our great state, the Congress, and America, Senator Menendez should resign.” Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today celebrated the announcement by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it has now recovered one billion dollars (and counting) through increased enforcement.   “The Inflation Reduction Act continues to deliver results. The recovery of $1… Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today cheered the awarding of a $99,499,531 grant to New Jersey Transit as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Low or No Emission Bus Grant Program funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Pascrell voted for this law and strongly advocated for this grant to be approved… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today mocked a vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for Republicans’ Refrigerator Freedom Act.   “Abbott and Costello. Rodney Dangerfield. Joan Rivers. Richard Pryor. George Carlin. Chris Rock. All of them are comedy amateurs when compared to the farce of Republican governance on display again… Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today excoriated Russia’s attack on a Kyiv children’s hospital, murdering dozens.   “Today Vladimir Putin’s Russia terrorist state has committed its latest war crime: bombing a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s capital,” said Congressman Pascrell. “There is no gruesome atrocity the Russian terror state will not commit in its… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) this morning hammered the finding by the U.S. Supreme Court that former Presidents enjoy absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for so-called officials acts.   “This decision by the Supreme Court today is a travesty and perhaps the most dangerous judicial opinion from our Supreme Court in generations,” said… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today hammered the U.S. Supreme Court’s effective overruling of the Chevron Doctrine.   “In the words of Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court’s currency today is not reason or fairness, but naked power,” said Congressman Pascrell. “By taking a hacksaw to a decades-old precedent, this Court continues its devolution to an… Read more »

Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) tonight celebrated passage in the Senate of the bipartisan Fire Grants and Safety Act. Pascrell was the lead Democratic cosponsor of the House version of the measure. After a vote of 88-2 in the Senate tonight the bill now heads to President Biden’s desk to become law.  “When I came to Congress, fire departments across America were literally… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the co-chairman and co-founder of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force has passed four separate amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) addressing traumatic brain injury in American servicemembers. Two of the amendments were bipartisan with Republican cosponsors.   The various amendments are… Read more »