U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Tom Reed (R-NY-23), Peter DeFazio (D-OR-04), and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25) today introduced the Disaster Savings and Resilient Construction Act, legislation that will create a $3,000 tax credit for homes and a $25,000 tax credit for business to help their owners rebuild after natural disasters. In 2019 alone, the United States experienced 14 separate bill... Read more »

Today, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) issued the below statement in support of the Lebanese people in the wake of a blast at the Port of Beirut that killed more than 100 people and injured thousands. Pascrell also joined 86 colleagues in demanding the Trump Administration provide immediate aid to the Lebanese people. The letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo comes as Lebanon also f... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, announced today that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded emergency CARES Act grants to the fire departments of Tenafly and Saddle Brook. The funding was provided through the CARES Act Assistance to Firefighters - COVID-19 Supplemental (AFG-S) grant program, which Rep. Pascrell advocated for... Read more »

With Senate Republicans letting federal unemployment insurance run out for millions of Americans during a pandemic, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), New Jersey’s only member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, today released a slate of stories from North Jersey residents in the Ninth District describing the impact of Republicans’ callous inaction. This follows a Ways and Mean... Read more »

U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and David McKinley (R-WV-01) celebrated House passage of their amendment to fund the Alternatives to Opioids in the Emergency Department (ALTO) program at $6 million for Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021). Pascrell was the primary House sponsor of the law authorizing the program, which was included in the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recove... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr., a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, today wrote to U.S. Treasury Steven Mnuchin calling out the Trump administration’s failure to provide information to Congress on currency manipulation by China and other countries. “I write to express my dismay with your failure to provide Congress with the statutorily required semi-annual report on whether C... Read more »

Today, U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Jackie Walorski (R-IN-02), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), and David Schweikert (R-AZ-06) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure new parents quickly receive the additional $500 per child payment provided by the CARES Act. Currently, parents of children born or adopted on or after January 1, 2020, must wait until they file taxes in calendar year 2021 to... Read more »

U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) today heralded the passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of their amendment that will provide $2 million to USPS for postal banking pilot programs throughout the United States. “Ninety percent of zip codes lacking a bank or credit union are in rural areas. Bank branches are also sparse in low income urban areas. Approximatel... Read more »

Today, U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Don Bacon (R-NE-02), co-chairmen of the Congressional Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force, hailed House passage of their amendment to provide $1 million to support the National Concussion Surveillance System (NCSS). The NCSS is critical to accurately determining the incidence of concussions, particularly among the most vulnerable Americans. Rep. Pas... Read more »

U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10) today introduced the American PPE Supply Chain Integrity Act. As the United States has contended with devastating shortages since the beginning of the pandemic, this bipartisan legislation will help end America’s over-reliance on personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies from China and other foreign nations. Expan... Read more »