Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement:

"I am closely monitoring the presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Camden County, and I am continuing to work with federal, state and local officials and health care organizations to ensure they have the all the information and resources necessary to protect our communities.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) voted today to pass H.R. 6074, a bill that would fund an $8.3 billion emergency supplemental package to fully address the scale and seriousness of the public health threat posed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03), Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garcia to address the need to pass the Rebuild America's Schools Act – legislation that invests in the infrastructure of public schools across the nation.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee – led the New Jersey Congressional Delegation in writing a letter to Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Peter Gaynor calling on the agency to more actively oversee the distribution of Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) funding, rather than abdicating that responsibility to state agencies. The letter calls on FEMA to ensure South Jersey communities are equitably included.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the House Armed Services Committee and Chairman of the Tactical Air and Land Subcommittee – introduced the Jobs and Childcare for Military Families Act of 2020.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 351 – voted yes today to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, in which he is an original co-sponsor. The PRO Act, which was introduced by Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) of the House Committee on Education and Labor, is the most significant upgrade to U.S. labor law in 80 years and is a direct response to the struggle that many hardworking families are facing. The PRO Act passed the House with bipartisan support.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced $60,000 in grant funding for Rutgers University-Camden from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project titled "Latinos, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Making of Multiracial America After the 1960s." The grant is one of five grants New Jersey received from NEH for a total of $990,000 in funding.

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross joined religious leaders, law enforcement specialists and local elected officials at an event co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey to discuss the security of the Jewish community in South Jersey. During the event, Norcross announced the Nonprofit Security Expansion Act - a bill that would increase grant funding for nonprofit organizations at risk of terrorist attacks, such as synagogues, churches and other vulnerable community centers.