PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today announced a $157,000 supplemental Airport Improvement Fund grant to Teterboro Airport. The funding was made available in the CARES “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security“ Act, as part of a $10 Billion fund of which $160 Million of which will go to New Jersey airports, that Pascrell supported in the House of Representatives last m... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $63,058,005 to New Jersey to support child care facilities and services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep. Pascrell and House Democrats fought to include this funding in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act last month. “It is imperative during t... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today reacted to the passing of Dominick Marino, the president of the Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey and a retired North Hudson firefighter. “I am floored and devastated by the passing of Dominick Marino. Don was a champion for New Jersey’s firefighters and he was also a good friend of mine. We worked hand-in-hand together ... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – Today, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Co-Chair of the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus and Fire Services Caucus, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10), and Rep. Max Rose (D-NY-11) introduced the Public Safety Officer Pandemic Response Act of 2020. This legislation would expand an existing federal program to ensure that public safety officers who c... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Co-Chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus and Law Enforcement Caucus, , today led 159 of his Democratic and Republican House colleagues urging the chamber’s leadership to ensure strong additional support for the nation’s first responders who work in one of the highest risk occupations for COVID-19 exposure in future emergency stimulus... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today led the entire 14-member New Jersey congressional delegation calling on the Trump administration to begin immediately allocating more support provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act for the Garden State’s frontline hospitals and health care pro... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-05) called on the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General to open an immediate federal investigation into the New Jersey Veterans Home at Paramus, New Jersey (NJVHP) facility and the conditions that have resulted in the deaths of 13 veterans and 29 residents and 17 staff testing positive for COVID-19. According to published repo... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today led the entire New Jersey congressional delegation in urging the Trump Administration to approve the state’s request for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to fund an individualized housing program the state is seeking to create to provide quarantined sheltering for COVID-19 patients and ... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today wrote to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn calling on his agency to be guided by science and not politics or political interference in granting approvals for therapeutics to combat COVID-19. “The FDA must maintain its global status as the gold standard for drug approval and ... Read more »

PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) and U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepted their request to allow all New Jersey School Food Authorities to continue feeding students in the Summer Food Service Program through June 30. “The impact of this continuing crisis is especially devastating on needy ... Read more »