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April 2, 2013
A group of about two dozen immigration-reform advocates appeared in a Jersey City church today to urge Congress to revamp the nation's immigration laws, saying the "status quo" is harming families.
Issues:Local Issues

March 27, 2013
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.

March 27, 2013
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.

March 25, 2013
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.
Issues:Health Care

March 25, 2013
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).

March 21, 2013
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
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
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."

March 8, 2013
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.

March 6, 2013
One year ago today, I lost my father, the venerated Congressman Donald M. Payne, Sr, to colon cancer.
Issues:Health Care