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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined Senators Bob Menendez and Senator Cory Booker (both D-NJ) and Congressmen Frank Pallone (NJ-06) and Bill Pascrell (NJ-09) on their comprehensive bipartisan legislation to extend the National Flood Insurance Program for five years while instituting a series of sweeping reforms to address the waste, abuse and mismanagement plaguing the system that led to delayed recovery for Superstorm Sandy survivors. The bill has the support of the entire New Jersey congressional delegation.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $503,399 for STEM research at Rowan University and the Spreadsheet Lab Manual in South Jersey.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and Chair of the Tactical Air and Land Forces (TAL) Subcommittee – voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) on the House Floor. The act builds a strong national defense, supports service members and strengthens America's workforce.
CHERRY HILL, NJ - Today, as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) releases its report on the impact of increasing the federal minimum wage, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) - a member of the House Education and Labor Committee and an electrician by trade - issued the below statement:
"I've worked for minimum wage and I was once a young single dad raising my son and having to balance work, family life and a checkbook. Back then it was hard. Today, for far too many Americans, it's nearly impossible.
CHERRY HILL, NJ - Today, as New Jersey's minimum wage rises from $8.85 an hour to $10 an hour, U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced that Chelsea Yang of Cherry Hill won the 2019 Congressional Art Competition for New Jersey's First Congressional District.
Chelsea, a rising junior at Cherry Hill High School East, titled her winning acrylic painting "A Meaningful Visit," and it depicts a daughter visiting the gravesite of her father, who served in the U.S. military. The painting will hang in the U.S. Capitol for one year
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, alongside the Committee Chair Robert "Bobby" Scott (VA-03) and Representatives Frederica Wilson (FL-24), Matt Cartwright (PA-08) and Abby Finkenauer (IA-01), introduced legislation to guarantee public-service workers in every state have the right to stand together and negotiate for fair wages and working conditions.
The Hill Opinion Editorial
By Donald Norcross
A young woman said, "I thank my stars every day that I'm standing here before you." A mom said, "This disease has touched so many families, including mine." A father said, "Our son was killed by fentanyl-laced heroine. Addicts need help." And another mother said, "If drug addiction was treated like other physical diseases, my son might be alive today."
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor and House Armed Services Committee – voted in favor of H.R. 3055, a "minibus" package that contains five Fiscal Year 2020 bills that fund federal departments and agencies including those related to military construction, veterans, transportation, commerce, justice, science, agriculture, interior, environment and housing.
Washington, DC – Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed an amendment authored by Congressmen Donald Norcross (NJ-01) and Andy Kim (NJ-03) – members of the House Armed Services Committee – to improve road safety at military facilities such as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.