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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ–09) and Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, today led 15 House Democrats calling on U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to defend the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program from a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. The Justice Department has so far declined to defend the program.
PATERSON, NJ – Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ–09) today celebrated the pathbreaking career of her colleague Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ-12) on the announcement that Watson Coleman will retire at the end of the 119th Congress.
PATERSON, NJ – Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ–09) today criticized the move of several U.S. Senators to back a Republican government funding plan that will skyrocket Americans’ health care costs.
This is Congresswoman Nellie Pou updating you about the end of food assistance to over 800,000 New Jerseyans due to the ongoing government shutdown.
Nearly one-in-ten New Jerseyans will lose their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits, starting Saturday, November 1. This includes children, seniors, working families, and people with disabilities.
In New Jersey, SNAP serves about 812,966 individuals, 436,452 households, 340,425 children and 176,706 elderly men and women.
PATERSON, NJ – Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ–09), a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, has introduced her new legislation, the SAFE TRACKS Act (State Actions For Employing Transportation Risk Assessments and Crossing Knowledge Strategies) to improve American rail safety and prevent suicides. The Act is cosponsored by Congressman Mike Bost (R-IL-12).
This is Congresswoman Nellie Pou writing to update you about the coming impacts to your health care if the government shutdown continues.
The New Jersey state government is estimating that state residents who purchase their health insurance through the state’s exchange will see an average increase of 175 percent to their premiums next year.
How much New Jerseyans will pay will depend on your income and what part of the state you live in. On average, the increased health care costs will amount to an extra $2,780 a year for our state’s residents.
This is Congresswoman Nellie Pou writing to you about our community’s celebration of Diwali and the new year.
To mark the holiday this year, I was honored to visit Shree Swaminarayan Temple in Secaucus to share this blessed event.
Each year, millions of Indian-Americans across our great nation gather with family and friends in the spirit of thanksgiving to reflect and rejoice, and to pray for health, wisdom, and peace in the year ahead. Given the challenges in front of our nation, we need all of those things in the coming year.
This is Congresswoman Nellie Pou writing to update you about the impact of the government shutdown on our troops.
I have been visiting across our district to talk with our residents and everyone is rightly fed up with the shutdown. Congress has now been out of session for over two straight weeks. Federal employees are furloughed home or working without pay, including our air traffic controllers and airport security officers.
In addition, America’s military servicemembers are also working without pay.
This is Congresswoman Nellie Pou writing to you about recent comments by the head of the Social Security Administration floating the possibility of raising the retirement age.
In a recent television interview on Fox Business channel, Social Security head Frank Bisignano was asked if he and the Trump administration will consider raising the retirement age. He replied: “Everything is being considered, yeah.”
PATERSON, NJ – Congresswoman Nellie Pou (D-NJ–09), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, is leading 11 members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation calling on U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to restore federal security grant funding that is being slashed by the Trump administration by nearly 50 percent.