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January 29, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) released the following statement today to mark the seventh anniversary of the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
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January 29, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) hosted a press conference to discuss the impact of defunding Planned Parenthood on women’s health in New Jersey.
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January 13, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) spoke with C-SPAN last night to discuss President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Below is an excerpt from the interview and link to the video.
January 13, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) released the following statement after President Obama delivered his State of the Union address.
January 12, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) joined 145 of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, including every Democratic member of New Jersey’s delegation, in sending a letter to President Obama calling for an end to unnecessary raids of Central American refugees across the nation.
January 5, 2016
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) today released the following statement after President Obama announced new executive actions to reduce gun violence by expanding criminal background checks.
December 22, 2015
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and U.S. Senator Cory Booker at New Jersey Transit’s (NJT) Walnut Station in Montclair to urge transit commuters to take advantage of new federal tax benefits to help pay the cost of rising bus and train fares.
December 18, 2015
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) released the following statement after voting in support of the FY 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 316 to 113.
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December 16, 2015
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10) today introduced the Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2015, a bill that increases incentives to sell back guns around the country, provides a stimulus to the economy, and recycles the sold guns into environmentally-friendly objects.
December 14, 2015
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Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (NJ-10), a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, today released the following statement marking the 3rd anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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March 27, 2013
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If the budget battle in Congress results in cuts to Social Security or Medicare, it would undermine small business owners’ retirement plans and weaken consumer demand for goods, according to a report by two national advocacy groups.
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March 27, 2013
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Concerned that their voices are being ignored in Washington, D.C., New Jersey small-business owners and advocates spoke out yesterday against potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
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March 25, 2013
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Representative Donald M. Payne, Jr. and Fight Colorectal Cancer, the leading national colorectal cancer advocacy organization, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square in recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
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March 25, 2013
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Nancy Chiaravalloti, Ph.D., Director of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research and Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation, was honored at Hudson County's 2013 Women's History Month Ceremony on March 19. Dr. Chiaravalloti also received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ-10).
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March 21, 2013
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The post office on Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City would be named after the trailblazing late Judge Shirley A. Tolentino, under a bill introduced in Congress by Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr.
March 19, 2013
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New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. hosted a conference focusing on the concerns of Liberian immigrants last Friday. The conference took place in conjunction with the Liberian Pastors Association. It was held to focus on the need to for an immediate extension for Liberian immigrants called a Deferred Enforced Departure or “DED”.
March 14, 2013
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New Jersey’s sole member of the Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ), is not a member of the subcommittee, but he sat in on the hearing, noting that his district includes Newark Liberty International Airport, where one of the 9/11 jets took off before crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. Payne told Pistole the knife rule was “flawed.”
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March 8, 2013
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Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. this week signed on as an original co-sponsor to the Fair Minimum Wage Act that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 over the next three years and tie future annual increases to the rate of inflation. Additionally, on Feb.
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March 6, 2013
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One year ago today, I lost my father, the venerated Congressman Donald M. Payne, Sr, to colon cancer.
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March 1, 2013
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Broad federal spending cuts set in motion today will have gradual, painful effects on New Jersey’s economy, from bottlenecks at the state’s airports to lost paychecks and programs for vulnerable residents, officials said.