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Ahead of a public meeting with South Jersey residents and New Jersey’s Transportation Commissioner, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement on the Atlantic City Rail Line:

“The tens of thousands of people in South Jersey, our state and the region who rely on the Atlantic City Rail Line deserve to have normalcy returned to them as soon as possible. And last week, I expressed this to NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Gutierrez-Scaccetti and New Jersey Transit (NJT) Executive Director Corbett.

When the shooting started at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Carly Novell ducked into a closet inside her journalism classroom and waited.

She said she felt “stoic,” and “in shock really,” as she and her classmates got snippets of information through texts about the killing unfolding in her school on Feb. 14, 2018. It wasn’t until later that she thought about the cruel history: She was the second person in her family to avoid death in a mass shooting this way.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Alice Paul Institute in Mount Laurel will honor three New Jersey industry leaders Monday for embodying the spirit and continuing the work of equal rights activist Alice Paul.

Donald Norcross, the U.S. representative for New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District, will receive the Alice Paul Equality Award for continuing to fight against pay discrimination and for affordable child care and family-friendly paid-leave policies in Congress.

Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a lifelong labor leader and Pennsauken native – announced that the Peter J. McGuire memorial and gravesite is now part of the National Register of Historic Places.

The grant comes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with an assist from Congressman Donald Norcross.