U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today convened a hearing on ways the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can help make the U.S. tax system fairer for all Americans. At the hearing, Pascrell helped unveil a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) study he requested which finds auditing rates have steadily plummeted over the l... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, today highlighted a new report he requested from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) auditing rates have steadily plummeted over the last ten years, disproportionally benefiting wealthy Americans. In October 2020, Chairman Pascrell requested... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight, this weekend published an op-ed in the North Jersey Bergen Record outlining the two worst loopholes in America’s federal tax laws, so-called carried interest and stepped-up basis, and urged their closure as essential to creating a fair tax system. As Oversight Chairman, Pascrell has made ref... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives in favor of H.R. 6825, the Nonprofit Security Grant Program Improvement Act, which will allocate $500 million annually to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) to help houses of worship and religious communities better protect themselves from rising domestic threats. “The United States remains in ... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, today called for President Biden to replace the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner in response to the latest IRS scandal involving millions of destroyed documents. “Members of the Ways and Means Committee and Congress have shown immense patience with the IRS. The IRS is vital to public... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today harshly criticized unified Senate Republican opposition of the Women’s Health Protection Act. Pascrell voted for the Women’s Health Protection Act when it passed the House last September. “A woman’s health care must be guided solely by her own decisions in private consultation with her doctor. No judges or politicians should have their hands on a woman’... Read more »

Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today celebrated the House Judiciary Committee’s approval of his TBI and PTSD Law Enforcement Training Act (H.R. 2992) during National Police Week. First proclaimed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, National Police Week has grown to a series of events that attracts thousands of law enforcement officers to our Nation's Capital each year to honor those th... Read more »

Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today thanked his colleagues on the House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Health Subcommittee for their swift and unanimous reauthorization of the Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO) in the Emergency Department Act. Led by Pascrell, ALTO encourages the use of non-opioid treatments in emergency departments throughout the country. Language from Pascrell’s bill, the bipa... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today announced that North Jersey had been awarded $3,349,369 from the Biden administration to renovate North Pulaski Park in Passaic. The funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior comes after Rep. Pascrell had written the government requesting money to reinvigorate the community space. The funding will be used to install a new, larger playground ar... Read more »

U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Mike McCaul (R-TX-10) have led 161 House colleagues requesting a significant increase in Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) funding for Fiscal Year 2023. In a letter to the leaders of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, the members officially requested that the NSGP program be funded at $360 million, to be split evenly among the NSGP’s Urban Area Se... Read more »