U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) joined colleagues, led by U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), on a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging him to arrest, prosecute, and jail the members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail who were caught on video brutally attacking protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. last... Read more »
U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus, announced the completion of a successful Police Week. Several measures passed by Congress this week in support of law enforcement officers across the nation. First proclaimed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, National Police Week has grown to a series of events that attracts thousands of surviv... Read more »
Today, Congressmen Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) reintroduced the Huntington’s Disease Parity Act, a bipartisan bill that ensures Medicare is made available to people with Huntington’s Disease (HD) – a devastating, degenerative, hereditary brain disorder that causes total physical and mental deterioration. The HD Parity Act is a critical piece of legislation to the tens of th... Read more »
Today, Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and David Reichert (R-WA) released the following statements after the Department of Justice announced the nationwide rollout of the National Blue Alert Network, which was created by the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015. This bill was sponsored by Reps. Pascrell and Reichert, who jointly chair the House Law Enforcement Caucus, and was si... Read more »
Today, Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Probation Officer Protection Act passed the U.S. House with a bipartisan vote. The Probation Officer Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. David Reichert (R-WA), protects probation officers and enhances their ability to do their jobs by giving them authority to arrest a third party who forcibly interferes with an office... Read more »
U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis asking for the implementation of recommendations in a Government Accountability Office report issued yesterday entitled “Actions Needed to Ensure Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Are Considered in Misconduct Separations.” "I urge you and your Department to gi... Read more »
Today, Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, introduced the Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act (FDCA) of 2017, a bipartisan bill to amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) to prohibit credit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker and U.S. Representatives Bill Pascrell, Jr... Read more »
U.S. Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (N.J.-09) and Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker today announced the awarding of $716,088 in federal Assistance to Firefighter Grant (AFG) funding to purchase new breathing apparatus for the firefighters. The AFG program is administered by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). “Our firefighters put their lives... Read more »
Amid accelerating revelations of President Trump’s attempts to shut down the FBI’s investigation of his campaign and administration’s ties to Russia, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today joined a discharge petition to force the House of Representatives to vote on bipartisan legislation establishing an independent commission to investigate any collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaig... Read more »
Today, U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-09), ranking member of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, issued the following statement following the China trade deal. "While on the campaign trail, the President leveled a lot of tough talk at China, including: 'China is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit. They break the rules in every way imaginable. China engages in il... Read more »
