The Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat earlier this week. Numerous Jewish community centers across the country reported receiving similar threats at the same time Monday.
Category: Bill Pascrell
H-1B reform bill unites political opposites
Since 2005, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell has been introducing H-1B reform legislation in the House and getting nowhere. But with the bill he introduced today, he might have struck gold.
Does this N.J. congressman have the political will to explore Trump-Russia link? | Editorial
It would seem obligatory – patriotic, even – for our elected officials to weigh in on the Trump Administration’s novel approach to foreign relations. But the one congressional representative from New Jersey in position to help illuminate the electorate and steer the country through the labyrinth ahead is curiously mute.
House Democrats escalate effort to obtain Trump tax returns
Congressional Democrats on Tuesday tried but failed to pressure Republicans into seeking President Donald Trump’s tax returns, saying the scandal over Michael Flynn made it imperative to find out whether the president has business ties to Russia. A day after the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee dismissed the idea, the panel’s Democrats proposed an amendment demanding that the committee ask the Treasury Department for copies of Trump’s returns by March 1. “Unless this amendment is adopted, we will never see the president’s tax returns while he’s in office,” Representative Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, told committee Chairman Kevin Brady at a public hearing.