U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, a longtime congressman from New Jersey and unflinching critic of former President Donald Trump, died at 87 years old on Wednesday, his family announced. "The joy of Bill Pascrell is you never walked away from Bill Pascrell saying he was undecided," Rep. Richard Neal, his colleague on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, said in …
Rep. Bill Pascrell is the second Democratic congressman from New Jersey to pass away this year — and state Democrats only have eight days to find his replacement. Pascrell's fellow Democratic congressman, Rep. Donald Payne Jr., died of a heart attack on April 24. Payne's seat remains vacant, but Democrats were able to run a special July primary to determine …
It’s the second time this year a sitting New Jersey lawmaker has died in office. William James Pascrell Jr. was born on Jan. 25, 1937, and grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, the city founded by Alexander Hamilton that collapsed into poverty and violence with the end of industrialism. Mohamed T. Khairullah, New Jersey’s longest-serving Muslim mayor, ran against Pascrell …
