Mikie Sherrill Archives - New Jersey Globe

Murphy announces top re-election campaign staffers

February 12, 2021 8:00 amFebruary 12, 2021 10:34 am

Gov. Phil Murphy continues to bolster his re-election campaign team, picking veterans from the staffs of Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) and Mark Kelly’s U.S. Senate race – and from his Trenton communications team – as he beefs up his own...

Sherrill gets Higher Education subcommittee assignment

February 11, 2021 11:02 amFebruary 12, 2021 1:15 pm

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) has been named to the House Education and Labor Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee. The two-term Essex County Democrat added Education and Labor as a third committee assignment last month. She already holds seats on...

House Republicans target Malinowski, three other N.J. House members

February 10, 2021 12:05 pmFebruary 10, 2021 4:53 pm

The National Republican Congressional Committee today put four New Jersey Democrats on their target list on vulnerable incumbents saying that Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes), Josh Gottheimer (D-Wyckoff), Andy Kim (D-Moorestown), and Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) can be beaten in 2022. Republicans...

NJ-11 ’20 race just 5th time in N.J. history where two women ran for Congress

February 9, 2021 12:26 amFebruary 9, 2021 10:38 am

One takeaway from the race between Mikie Sherrill and Rosemary Becchi in New Jersey’s the 11th district in 2020: since women won the right to vote in 1920, this is just the 5th time both major parties have nominated a...

Rep. Jeff Van Drew will likely face a primary challenge if he votes against impeachment.

Democrats target Van Drew for defeat in 2022

February 8, 2021 1:57 pmFebruary 8, 2021 2:19 pm

Saily Avelenda helped launch a grassroots group, NJ 11th for Change, in early 2017 to pressure Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-Harding) to oppose newly-elected President Donald Trump’s agenda and to meet with his constituents. Her involvement with the group led to...

Sherrill named to Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee

February 4, 2021 6:17 pm

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) was named Thursday to a newly-formed House panel overseeing defense intelligence, counterterrorism and special operations forces, among other national security elements. The second-term congresswoman will join the House Armed Services Committee’s Intelligence and Special Operations Subcommittee...

New Jersey lawmakers introduce federal bill to strengthen long-term care regulations

February 4, 2021 12:54 pm

Three of New Jersey’s federal lawmakers introduced a bill that would reinstate infection control and emergency preparedness regulations in long-term care centers hammered by the pandemic Thursday. “COVID-19 has been devastating, particularly for seniors and those living in nursing or...