Rep. William Pascrell

Democrat  •  8th District, New Jersey  •  8th Term  •  Sworn In 1997
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06/03/12
Rothman gets a positive response in Fort Lee

Running against U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9) in the redistricted 9 th, Rothman complemented his late network television ad buy with aggressive retail politics. “Did you get a pen?” the congressman asked people on the street in Fort Lee.

Source: PolitickerNJ.com
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06/03/12
Secaucus weighs in on the Democratic congressional primary

and U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson). Both men have gone head to head in a contentious primary battle for the 9th district that has mostly been fought outside of the town’s borders in Bergen and Passaic counties. While most local voters are familiar

Source: Hudson Reporter
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06/03/12
Incumbent Congressmen Rub Shoulders With Presidents Days Before N.J. Primary

NY1 VIDEO: Days before the June 5 primaries, former President Bill Clinton came to Congressman Bill Pascrell's hometown of Paterson, N.J. to support the representative's re-election campaign against fellow Democrat Steve Rothman in the 9th district on Frid

Source: NY1
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06/02/12
NJ Primary Pits Democratic Presidents Against Each Other

Democrats Rep. Steve Rothman and Rep. Bill Pascrell, who have both served eight terms in the House of Representatives are battling it out for the nomination for the ninth district seat in the Garden State. Obama on Friday signaled support for ...

Source: NewsMax.com
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06/02/12
Bill Clinton Walks Back Romney Compliment: ‘He Is Wrong On The Economy’

Clinton blamed the “tea party” for a climate where civil discourse was unacceptable. Clinton, speaking at a rally to support Rep. Bill Pascrell in New Jersey, explained that he was not endorsing Romney at all, but merely not “attack[ing] him personal

Source: mediaite.com
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06/02/12
Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business record doesn't connote endorsement

But at a rally in Paterson to support Rep. Bill Pascrell, Clinton said his remarks got "twisted around." "I said, you know, Governor Romney had a good career in business and he was a governor, so he crosses the qualification threshold for him ...

Source: CBS News
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06/02/12
The friends of Bill Pascrell

...same. Only difference is the name.” That night, he was at an Arab-American fundraiser attended by over 250 people for Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ). El Filali has donated thousands of dollars to Pascrell over the years, including $1,500 in the past year a

Source: Power Line
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06/02/12
The friends of Bill Pascrell

...same. Only difference is the name.” That night, he was at an Arab-American fundraiser attended by over 250 people for Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ). El Filali has donated thousands of dollars to Pascrell over the years, including $1,500 in the past year a

Source: Power Line
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06/02/12
SO Democratic Committee Primary Election

Donald Payne, Sr. in March, and the 2010 census redistricting, which forced Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. into a different district. Therefore, the winner of our Congressional primary race on June 5 will represent South Orange for the next two years ...

Source: Patch
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06/02/12
Bitter N.J. Primary Pits President Obama Against Bill Clinton

The contest, in northern New Jersey, between Rep. Steven Rothman and Rep. Bill Pascrell has exposed old wounds in the Democratic Party dating to the bitter 2008 primary contest between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama is backing Rothman ...

Source: Oregonian
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06/01/12
Clinton on Romney record praise: My words were twisted

CBS News reports on Bill Clinton's follow-up on his comments on Bain and Mitt Romney on CNN last night: But at a rally in Paterson to support Rep. Bill Pascrell, Clinton said his remarks got "twisted around." "I said, you know, Governor Romney had a good .

Source: Politico.com
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06/01/12
Bill Clinton, Media Critic

PATERSON, NJ — At a re-election rally for Congressman Bill Pascrell this afternoon, Bill Clinton blamed the current media landscape for controversy over comments he made on Piers Morgan Tonight yesterday defending Mitt Romney’s business background.

Source: Politicker
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06/01/12
Clinton on Pascrell: 'Every day he has been in public life, Bill Pascrell has done what he thought was right for you'

PATERSON – Kicking off GOTV efforts for U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9) on the Friday before Election Day, President Bill Clinton this afternoon embraced Pascrell as the district’s unabashed fighter for the middle class and the working poor ...

Source: PolitickerNJ.com
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06/01/12
Live updates: Bill Clinton stumping for Pascrell at Paterson rally

This is John Ensslin of The Record coming to you live from John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson where former President Bill Clinton will be speaking at a rally for Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, later this afternoon. At the moment everyone is ...

Source: NorthJersey.com
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06/01/12
Competing NJ reps look to Obama, Clinton for help

(AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton has arrived at a get-out-the-vote rally on behalf of Rep. Bill Pascrell Friday in Paterson, as the eight-term congressman battles to win the Democratic primary in a redrawn 9th District. Earlier Friday ...

Source: Newsday
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06/01/12
House Jewish Projection: Candidate Elimination Week

Polls show ‎that the Democratic race – to be decided June 6 – is tight. “A new poll ‎commissioned by U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell shows the 9th Congressional ‎District primary a virtual dead heat. An outline of the poll, obtained ‎by ...

Source: Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
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06/01/12
Competing NJ reps look to Obama, Clinton for help

Clinton has endorsed Rep. Bill Pascrell and is attending a rally with him Friday in Paterson. Not to be outdone, Rep. Steve Rothman met with Obama this morning in the Oval Office and then walked with him down the White House colonnade in front of cameras.

Source: New Jersey Herald
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06/01/12
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Joe Walsh: Dems want minorities 'to be dependent on government'

NJ-09: Just ahead of Tuesday's primary, Dem Rep. Steve Rothman attacks fellow Dem Rep. Bill Pascrell for opposing a lawsuit to force polluters to pay to clean up the Passaic River. (The ad cites this article in the Bergen Record.) Rothman's ...

Source: DAILY KOS
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06/01/12
Bill Clinton rallies support for Pascrell in Paterson visit

...fellow Rep. Steve Rothman of Englewood in the redrawn 9th Congressional District. “Don’t let that happen,” he said. “Send Bill Pascrell back to Congress.” Clinton said Pascrell was the kind of fighter who worked to achieve “creative cooperat

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06/01/12
Live updates: Bill Clinton stumping for Pascrell at Paterson rally

...live from John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson where former President Bill Clinton will be speaking at a rally for Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, later this afternoon. At the moment everyone is standing outside the school gymnasium after a fire

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06/01/12
W.H. gives a shout to Rothman

...the White House this morning with New Jersey Rep. Steve Rothman, who is locked a tough post-redistricting primary with Rep. Bill Pascrell. And the pool reports from a gaggle with Josh Earnest that the administration had further warm words for the congre

Source: The Politico
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06/01/12
President Obama appears with Rep. Steve Rothman ahead of close New Jersey congressional primary

...time for President Obama. The president announced his support for Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.) Friday, in his bid to defeat Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) in a bitter congressional primary set to be one of the closest in Garden State history. Taking full ad

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06/01/12
Former President Bill Clinton appears at rally for Rep. Bill Pascrell in Paterson

...speaks at the 2012 Fiscal Summit on May 15 in Washington, D.C. PATERSON — Former President Bill Clinton today said Rep. Bill Pascrell deserves to be reelected to Congress because he fights for his constituents. "We live in a world where all that matte

Source: NJ.com
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05/31/12
Bill Clinton Does Not Think Mitt Romney Should Be President

Last night, at a rally for New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell, Clinton explained that his words had been "twisted around." "I said, you know, Governor Romney had a good career in business and he was a governor, so he crosses the qualification ...

Source: Nymag.com
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05/31/12
Pascrell highlights first responders versus Rothman’s big money Passaic River TV ad buy

EAST RUTHERFORD – In a 911 Memorial pocket park downtown, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-9) put first responders at the center of his campaign in a placid set-piece, while network TV continues to assail him for siding with polluters against ...

Source: PolitickerNJ.com
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05/31/12
Paterson mayor endorses Rep. Rothman in 9th District primary race

...Mayor Jeffery Jones endorsed Rep. Steve Rothman in his Democratic primary fight against Rep. Bill Pascrell, himself a former Paterson mayor, as the two congressional veterans scrabble for votes in an intensifying campaign brawl. Jones said “Steve is t

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05/31/12
New Jersey: Steven Rothman Makes Serious Television Buy in New York Market

...Steven Rothman is going big in the last days of his Democratic primary against Rep. Bill Pascrell in New Jersey’s newly drawn 9th district. His campaign just released a television ad about the environment that is on the air in the expensive New York C

Source: Roll Call
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05/31/12
Rep. Bill Pascrell blends pragmatism with passion

...Bill Pascrell revels in going on television news shows, especially Fox News, to argue with conservatives. Rep. Bill Pascrell campaigning this month for the Democratic nomination to represent the new 9th District. “If you can’t go on those shows, you

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05/30/12
Five Latino leaders in Paterson supporting Rothman

Steve Rothman in his primary battle with Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., supporters turned off the fans in a sweltering storefront so that Rothman’s newfound political allies could be heard. But they still had to raise their voices over the minivan parked right

Source: NorthJersey.com
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05/30/12
Congressman working for reauthorization of concussion act that supports concussion care for youth athletes

A New Jersey congressman is working to keep the mechanisms in place for the funding, research, spread of information and treatment of traumatic brain injury and concussion. Bill Pascrell (D-8th Dist.), co-founder of the Congressional Brain ...

Source: The Star-Ledger
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Official website: http://pascrell.house.gov/
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2370 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5751
Fax: 202-225-5782

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