Press Releases
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross – a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and an electrician by trade – applauded the agreement by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Speaker Craig Coughlin to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour predictably over the next six years and issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross - a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and an electrician by trade - joined a bicameral group of colleagues, including the Democratic leadership team and Senator Bernie Sanders, in introducing the Raise the Wage Act of 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) was today re-appointed to serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor and the House Armed Services Committee.
An electrician by trade, Norcross has a long history of fighting for workers in New Jersey.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) introduced the Care Packages for Our Heroes Act, H.R. 400, to ensure that our nonprofit organizations that send care packages to American military members serving overseas are not negatively impacted by dramatic increases to U.S. postal rates.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joins Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) and eight bipartisan colleagues in introducing the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act – commonly called "The Butch Lewis Act" – which addresses the nation's worsening multiemployer pension crisis.
WASHNIGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) are leading more than sixty of their colleagues in calling on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to prioritize policies that will help tackle the opioid epidemic.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Donald Norcross was sworn in to represent New Jersey's First Congressional District in the 116th Congress and his first votes were in favor of two bills to reopen all government services that have been shut down since December 22nd and ensure workers get the paychecks they earned.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement on the Trump shutdown:
"Just ten days ago, President Trump said, 'I am proud to shut down the government,' and, sadly, American workers are the ones suffering because of Trump's egotistical, politically-motivated temper tantrum.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement on his vote in favor of the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person (FIRST STEP) Act (S.756):
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that two federally-qualified health centers in South Jersey will receive $4,793,332 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Health Center Program.