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New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr. recently wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren, the chairwoman of the Committee on House Administration, that quoted from the Fourteenth Amendment:
“No person shall be a … Representative in Congress… who having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress… to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection … or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
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Reps. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on Dec. 4 introduced the Renewable Chemicals Act, which aims to create an allocated tax credit to support the production of biobased chemicals or support investment in production facilities that produce renewable chemicals.
The bill would establish a production tax credit for renewable chemicals equal to 15 percent of the sales price of each pound of renewable chemical produced by the taxpayer or for the taxpayer by a contract manufacturer and sold for fair market value. The credit would be reduced for chemicals do not have 100 percent biobased content. Eligible renewable chemicals must be produced in the U.S. using renewable biomass and have at least 95 percent biobased content. Chemicals sold or used for the production of food, feed, fuel or pharmaceuticals would not be eligible. Chemical intermediates, however, would be considered eligible.
those tax returns when the committee chairman makes that request. this lawsuit today caps a long process. one member of that committee, in fact, made his first formal request for the president s tax returns 2 1/2 years ago, less than two weeks after donald trump s inauguration. the congressman who did that, who has been on that from the very beginning, is bill pascrell of new jersey. and congressman pascrell joins us now. sir, thanks for being here. good to be here, rachel. why has this been so important for you from the beginning? you were really on it from the very start. because and i wanted it to be a nonpartisan thing. i sent a letter to kevin brady, who was the chairman at the time, republicans were in charge. i said let s do this together because it s going to be big. when i tell you it s going to be big, kevin, it s going to be big. no, you cannot meddle into the president s privacy. i said you birds just did this two years ago when they were investigating the head of t