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CHERRY HILL, NJ - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced a $1,144,121 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, a state-licensed health consortium that supports maternal and newborn care in South Jersey. This federal funding will help the organization address and eliminate racial disparities in maternal health among Black and Latina women.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ-01) and Don Bacon (R-NE-02) unveiled the Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access (MOTA) Act (H.R. 1359).
"When I wasn't on anything, I couldn't stand the way I felt in my own skin," she said. "Methadone satisfies me, but doesn't get me high."
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), co-founder of the Congressional Labor Caucus, released the following statement after President Biden announced the nomination of Deputy Secretary Julie Su to succeed Secretary Martin J. Walsh as Secretary of Labor.
"First, I want to thank Secretary Marty Walsh for his service to America's workers. His fierce determination and firsthand experience as a leader of the labor movement made him a respected, effective, and unflinching champion for hardworking people all across the country.
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (D-NJ-01) today, with congressional leaders, labor leaders, and workers, unveiled the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (H.R. 20). Congressman Norcross, a co-founder of the Congressional Labor Caucus, is a union electrician by trade, a former union organizer, and was president of an AFL-CIO regional labor council for nearly two decades.
CAMDEN CITY, NJ - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today announced $750,000 in new funding that the congressman secured in the FY 2023 omnibus package. The money will be used to stabilize Berth 1 at the Balzano Marine Terminal so the port can meet increasing business activity.
CHERRY HILL, NJ - Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and father of a veteran, announced and congratulated the region's 2023 congressional nominees for the United States service academies.
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) today announced $1.4 million in new federal funding for two Community Partnership Centers founded and run by Rutgers University in Camden. The funding was secured by the congressman in the FY 2023 omnibus package and will be used at two community centers to increase staffing and programming in adult education, workforce development, health, wellness, youth and families, civic engagement, and other areas of need identified by the communities.
The federal government is providing more than $70 million to clean up a Superfund site in West Deptford.
Superfund sites are highly contaminated areas that contain harmful toxins from decades of industrial use or waste dumping. New Jersey has among the most of these in the country.
The Environmental Protection Agency is distributing $1 billion to clean up 22 Superfund sites nationwide. Three of them are in New Jersey, including the 80-acre Matteo & Sons property in West Deptford. It used to be a lead battery recycling facility and waste dump.
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced he will be joined by labor leader Charles Wowkanech to hear President Biden lay out his vision to help create jobs, strengthen the middle class, and grow our economy.