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Bill Pascrell - definition of Bill Pascrell in Encyclopedia (153 words) |
 | Pascrell was elected to the New Jersey general assembly as a Democrat in 1988. |
 | In 1990, Pascrell was elected mayor of Paterson. |
 | Pascrell was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996. |
| Bill Pascrell, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (371 words) |
 | January 25, 1937) is a politician from the state of New Jersey, representing the state's 8th Congressional district (map) in the U.S. House. |
 | Pascrell was elected mayor two months later and re-elected in 1994, though many say he ran for Congress in 1996 because he had become unpopular in the city after unemployment skyrocketed to three times the national average. |
 | Pascrell campaigned heavily for Jon Corzine in 2005 and is currently hoping to replace him in the United States Senate, but recently snubbed by New York Senator Chuck Schummer, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in terms of being interviewed for succession. |