Press Releases
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging her to continue federal funding for the Gateway Project, despite the Trump Administration's budget that calls for zeroing-out the transit New Starts program, the primary funding source to build new Hudson River rail tunnels and upgrade the Northeast Corridor.
WASHINGTON, DC – The state's entire Congressional delegation urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reject a proposed rule change that would severely slash Medicare reimbursements to New Jersey hospitals.
Previous CMS policies have included a provision—the imputed rural floor—that provides New Jersey hospitals with fair and equitable payments to support physicians and other health care professionals providing care to seniors and low-income patients. That provision is discontinued in the proposed FY 2018 inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) rule.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and a bicameral group of lawmakers introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2017 that will help working families by raising the federal wage from the current level of $7.25 to $15.00 an hour by 2024 and index the minimum wage to the median wage starting in 2025.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, all twelve New Jersey U.S. House Representatives lauded the U.S. Department of Transportation's $10 million grant to New Jersey Transit (NJT) to advance its implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) along its rail lines.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as amended and voted on by the House of Representatives:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement in reaction to President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal:
"President Trump is again exposing his true priorities with this proposed budget – help for billionaires at the expense of hard-working American families.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced the winners of the 2017 Congressional Art Competition for New Jersey's First Congressional District.
The first place winner, Hannah Jin of Cherry Hill Township, submitted a painting titled "The Tale of the Yellow Ribbon." The painting shows a mother and daughter planting a tree, on which they have tied a single yellow ribbon. Hannah, a 9th grade student at Moorestown Friends School, says the yellow ribbon serves as a symbol of remembrance and hope for members of the armed services.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after attending a classified bipartisan briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein regarding the firing of FBI Director Comey and investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election:
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's formal notice to Congress that it plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA):
"Any trade deal needs to benefit American workers - and it's clear American workers have been the losers here. In South Jersey, 19,500 manufacturing jobs have been lost since NAFTA came into force, which is unacceptable.
WASHINGTON, DC - Co-Chairs of the Congressional Building Trades Caucus, Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and David McKinley (R-WV), along with the Construction Employers of America, commemorated Infrastructure Week 2017 and called for robust infrastructure investments at a press conference on Capitol Hill.