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Essex
12/14/2007
Payne Announces Grant from Head Start for the Leaguers Early Childhood Development Center - Washington, DC – United States Congressman Donald M. Payne today announced that Head Start has awarded $1,387,434 to the Leaguers Early Childhood Development Center in Newark, NJ.  MORE

Essex
12/11/2007
Payne Announces Grant for District Housing Authorities - Washington, DC – United States Congressman Donald M. Payne today announced that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded, through the Housing Choice Voucher –  Family Self Sufficiency Program, $194,032 to the Housing Authorities of East Orange and Orange.  MORE

Essex
11/30/2006
Payne Announces $700,000 for YouthBuild Newark - Tenth District Congressman Donald M. Payne announced today that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $700,000 to YouthBuild Newark, a program which empowers young men and women to complete their high school education and to achieve on-the-job training in construction skills.  MORE

Essex
9/30/2005
Payne And Pascrell Announce New Grant For Montclair Fire Department - Washington -- Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ,10th)  and Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ, 8th) today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the Montclair Fire Department a new federal FIRE grant in the amount of $50,310.  The funding came from the Operations and Firefighter Safety Program, which includes funds for training, equipment, personnel, protective equipment, wellness and fitness, or modifications to fire stations and facilities.  Specifically, this grant will help fund equipment and training to perform trench rescues. MORE

Essex
8/19/2005
Payne And Pascrell Deliver $1.2 Million In Federal Funding For Rahway River Corridor Bike/pedestrian Path In South Orange - SOUTH ORANGE --- U.S. Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-08) and Donald Payne (D-NJ-10) today lauded inclusion of $1.2 million for the South Orange Rahway River Corridor Greenway Project in the federal transportation spending bill.  Passed by the House and Senate on July 29, 2005, the legislation renews federal funds for highway and transit programs designed to replace the expiring transportation and infrastructure programs.  President George W. Bush signed the legislation on Wednesday, August 10, 2005.MORE

Essex
8/24/2004
Payne Announces U.S. Department of Transportation Grant for Newark Liberty International Airport Access Road - Tenth District Congressman Payne announced today that the 10th Congressional district has received a $ 1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to improve a Newark Liberty International Airport access road.   The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration agency is awarding the grant to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.  The grant will be used for the first phase of repairing Brewster Road, which serves as an access road for Newark Liberty International Airport.   Payne said, “This funding will allow us to build on the progress we have made to date.  I will continue to work with the Department of Transportation to ensure that our roads are improved and maintained.”MORE

Essex
9/29/2003
Payne Joins Senators and House Colleagues in Announcing $2.7 Million Federal Grant for Newark Police - United States Senators Jon S. Corzine and Frank R. Lautenberg and Representatives Donald Payne and Robert Menendez formally announced today a $2,787,001 Justice Department grant that will help modernize and integrate the Newark police department’s communications system, pulling together police, fire and emergency medical responders in Newark and surrounding communities.MORE

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6/5/2007
Payne Announces $1.8 Million for Upward Bound TRIO Grant Program - Congressman Donald M. Payne, a senior member of the House Education and Labor Committee, is pleased to announce that his Congressional District, New Jersey – 10th, has been awarded $1,811,509 for Upward Bound through the TRIO Program.  TRIO is a series of educational opportunity programs designed to help low income, first generation and/or disabled Americans enter college. MORE

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3/27/2006
Payne Holds Town Hall Meetings with 10th District Constituents to Highlight Port Security - In response to the Bush Administration’s attempt to turn over the operation of six major U.S. ports – including the Port of New York and New Jersey - to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, Tenth District Congressman Donald Payne recently held two Town Hall meetings on the issue of port security.  During the forums, which were took place in Elizabeth, New Jersey and Montclair on March 22nd and 23rd , Congressman Payne solicited opinions from his constituents and answered questions about the Bush Administration’s secretive port deal. MORE

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10/29/2003
Payne Announces 10th Congressional District Federal Housing And Community Revitalization Grants - Tenth District Congressman Donald Payne has announced that several cities in the 10th  Congressional District have been awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for housing and community revitalization programs.  MORE

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