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This is no longer about safety. This is Governor Murphy forcing businesses to die; businesses that just spent months investing and preparing to open at a time he gave his word to them on. The restaurants placed food orders, bought PPE, hired staff back, and started advertising.
How is going to a busy big-box store any safer than a prepared restaurant?
WASHINGTON- Today, Congressman Jeff Van Drew issued a statement regarding the destruction of historical and religious statues across America. Congressman Van Drew is also supportive of pending legislative or executive action to protect statues from being vandalized or destroyed on Federal property.
Congressman Jeff Van Drew Named Legislator of the Year by the NJ VFW, Meets with VA Secretary Wilkie
MAYS LANDING- Today, Congressman Jeff Van Drew was awarded “Legislator of the Year” by the Department of New Jersey Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). The award was presented to Congressman Van Drew at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Wildwood. Congressman Van Drew then met with Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to discuss veterans care initiatives.
MAYS LANDING- Today, Congressman Jeff Van Drew joined a lawsuit to force Governor Murphy to reopen the South Jersey economy. As a small business owner in South Jersey for decades, Congressman Van Drew is joining his fellow business owners to stop the onerous restrictions set by Governor Murphy.
Dear Governor Murphy,
A serious oversight regarding Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) locations in South Jersey has been brought to our attention. While we are thankful these facilities have begun a slow reopening, the lack of geographic focus is putting an extreme burden on large portions of our community.
We have come a long way in terms of equality for every race, sex and creed in this nation. We still have a ways to go to before we are there for everyone, but we must find peaceful and meaningful solutions that offer positive outcomes for all.
Our law enforcement officers put their lives on the line, and some die in service to their community and nation every year. The malicious conduct that we saw from some police officers, one of whom took George Floyd's life, do not represent law enforcement and they need to be punished to the full extent of the law for their actions.
MAYS LANDING-Today, Congressman Jeff Van Drew blasted the decision of the South Jersey Transportation Authority (SJTA) to raise tolls on hardworking South Jersey families in the middle of a pandemic.
WASHINGTON- Today, Congressman Jeff Van Drew announced his opposition to the $3 trillion spending bill that Nancy Pelosi unveiled this week. While there are pieces of this legislation that would be beneficial to the current COVID crisis we are in, Speaker Pelosi has added in her wishlist of progressive, nation-changing proposals that she knows will never be signed into law.
Washington- Congressman Jeff Van Drew had a telephone meeting this afternoon with Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services(HHS) Eric Hargan on COVID-19 payments to hospital systems that arbitrarily missed out on hotspot funding. To receive the hotspot funding the hospital must have had 100 confirmed COVID-19 patients by April 10th.
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WASHINGTON – In response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issuing five Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) which would advance permit applications for seismic air gun blasting off the Atlantic Coast, U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-2nd) and John Rutherford (R-FLA 4th) introduced the bipartisan Atlantic Coastal Economies Protection Act.
U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-2nd, invited Federal Aviation Administration worker Marion Kennedy Jr. to be his guest at the 2019 State of the Union address.
U.S. Congressman Jeff Van Drew, D-2nd, argued for meaningful compromise to reopen the federal government, including on border wall funding, on the national Fox TV news show “Sunday Futures with Maria Bartiromo” this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freshman Congressman Jeff Van Drew, D-2nd, has sponsored a bipartisan bill with Ohio Republican Troy Balderson to end government shutdowns.
WASHINGTON - Upon President Donald Trump's Jan. 25 announcement to reopen the federal government until mid-February, U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-2nd) issued the following:
"I am so happy that a deal has been reached to end the shutdown and reopen the government. Now it is our job to work together and find compromise in a bipartisan way so that the American people do not suffer again.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, D-2nd, has been appointed to the House Committee on Agriculture, as he expected, he said Friday.
Congressman Jeff Van Drew, D-2nd, urged New Jersey on Tuesday to allow federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay to collect unemployment insurance.