Donald Norcross

I am a product of a 4-year apprenticeship, not a common way to get to Congress, but certainly something I understand.

I think there is a cure, and it is something that we can do.

So it is the generation of the fourth generation, the C model, which is deteriorating faster?

How much of the operating cost of the F-35 factors into this?

Are we expecting those operational costs for the F-35 to decrease?

The tanker fleet's end strength will require careful synchronization between KC-10 retirements and KC-46 production and delivery.

This is a disaster. We literally spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year when a hurricane strikes.

Obviously, this has the attention of all of us, that we can have the greatest flying fleet in the world but if we can't get it refueled, it is a big problem.

Thank you. Admiral, you mentioned the Jones Act and that has been the backbone in many ways to keep what little fleet we have going.

We are all in this together. Everybody is in this together.

We know if we do nothing this crashes and burns.

If you can walk away, first position in bankruptcy are wages.

If we do nothing, the system crashes and it takes down virtually everyone with it sooner or later.

Several years ago we had General McDew in, who said to a question I asked him, what keeps you up at night, and he said refuelers.

When the banks were going under, what did we do? We saved them because it is good for all of us.

I am here to tell a story about gun violence that spans multiple generations, and it started in my hometown of Camden, a city in New Jersey. A tragic event happened in Camden in 1949. Howard Unruh shot and killed 13 people. This event is…

School infrastructure must be part of any package we consider.

An overwhelming majority of Americans understand the clear line between the consistent, nationwide failure to support public schools and its role in perpetuating inequality in education.

This bill would create a $70 billion grant program and $30 billion tax credit bond program targeted at improving the physical and digital infrastructure at high-poverty schools.

If the minimum wage kept up with inflation and productivity, it would be $18 an hour.

It is time to help these people, the ones that vote in your districts, the ones who need it.

Let's work together. Let's take care of all Americans. Let's give them a chance to have the dignity of the American dream.

It has been 11 years since we voted, 10 years since that raise went to the minimum wage.

I am here proud to cosponsor along with the chairman the Raise the Wage Act.

Raising the minimum wage to $12 would reduce government spending on entitlement programs by $17 billion.