Newsletters
Dear Friend:
The United States Treasury Department has just announced its plans to begin phasing out the penny after 238 years. If carried out, the penny will begin disappearing from transactions and cash registers, as well as from your purses, pockets, and couch cushions.
Dear Friend:
A few days ago, Congress passed a massive Republican-sponsored budget bill. While I voted no, I wanted to let you know as soon as possible that we have discovered the bill would cut funding for Medicare by nearly half a trillion dollars.
Dear Friend:
I am outraged that the U.S. Justice Department is now prosecuting my New Jersey colleague Congresswoman LaMonica McIver after visiting a federal detention facility in Newark to conduct official oversight.
Members of Congress have legal authority to make unannounced visits and inspections of federal detention facilities. These oversight duties are precisely what Congresswoman McIver was doing and why she was indicted.
Dear Friend:
The House will soon consider a massive $4 trillion budget bill being offered by Republicans. I will vote against the bill and I want to explain why.
First, the tax relief in the bill is not distributed fairly to all Americans. The bill is heavily skewed to give huge breaks to the wealthiest one-tenth of one percent of Americans. Any tax cuts should favor the middle class and this bill does not do that.
Dear Friend:
This past week the House passed legislation I cosponsored to rename parts of the Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park for the late Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.
Congressman Pascrell was known throughout our state for his closely-held convictions. He spoke up and spoke out for what he believed in and he never backed down from a fight.
Dear Friend,
This week in Washington is Police Week. During Police Week, law enforcement officers from across America come to our nation’s capital to discuss their priorities. This Police Week I will sit down with various police leaders to hear what they need and how my office can help our local departments.
Dear Friend:
As you may have seen, read, or experienced yourself, Newark Airport in our state is experiencing a raft of flight delays and cancellations. Travelers are telling horror stories sitting on the tarmac for hours and seeing their vacations ruined and their money lost.
Experts suggest the delays could last weeks or months.
Dear Friend,
Recently, I was in Lyndhurst to celebrate the opening of the town’s new train station. The lovely new station is the culmination of years of work by federal, state, and local officials, and most of all: determined Lyndhurst citizens.
To call the old Lyndhurst station a relic would be kind. The old station was built the year New Jerseyan Woodrow Wilson moved into the White House – 1913! People in Lyndhurst knew it needed to be replaced – and we worked for years to make it happen.
Dear Friend,
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reported that April was the worst single month for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1932. This would be the lowest point for the stock market since the worst days of the Great Depression.
This news follows a fresh Gallup poll which finds that Americans’ pessimism in the state of our economy is at its highest point in decades. At the same moment, the power of the U.S. dollar is plummeting.
Dear Friend,
Recent news articles are reporting that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections. This would be a terrible mistake.
The safety of large parts of the American food supply has long been regulated by the federal government. These safety measures cover foods you eat and drink every day, for example cereal, milk, fruit juice, and peanut butter and jelly.