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CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-NJ), and Camden Mayor Dana Redd today announced a total of $750,000 in federal funding for Camden to assess, clean, and redevelop contaminated properties in the city. The funding was made available through the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Brownfields Investments Program, which empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields sites.
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.
SNJ Today.
...Democratic Congressman Donald Norcross hosted a small business seminar Monday morning, March 27th, at Camden County College in Blackwood. The idea was to encourage potential entrepreneurs by introducing them to people who have made a success of their own small businesses.
The Courier-Post. By: The Editorial Board
U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross will be visiting the Courier-Post this afternoon to discuss how what's happening in the nation's capital will affect South Jersey residents.
We'll bring you part of that discussion live. Look for our Facebook Live broadcast today around 1 p.m.
We'll provide a link to the discussion on this page or you can view it at www.facebook.com/courierpost/
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:
Burlington County Times. By: David Levinsky
The U.S. Department of Defense released the details of President Donald Trump's military budget for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year, and like numerous spending plans introduced previously, it seeks authorization for another round of base closures.
NJ.com. By: Jonathan Salant
Funding for hangars to house the new KC-46 refueling tankers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst were included in President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget.
The spending plan for the 12 months beginning Oct. 1 included $269 million for hangars at the two bases selected to house the KC-46 planes, the Joint Base and Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. The Air Force must complete environmental reviews before the money can be released.