Press Releases
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.