New Jersey’s Three New House Members on Their Goals for 2025

The 119th Congress has begun – and for two New Jersey politicians, that means the beginning of a congressional career that neither likely thought was possible just a couple of years ago.

Reps. Herb Conaway (D-Delran) and Nellie Pou (D-North Haledon) were both sworn into their first House terms today, the culmination of an unusual election cycle that saw the two former state legislators win the seats previously held by Senator Andy Kim and the late Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson). Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) has already been in the House for a couple of months after winning a special election to replace the late Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-Newark), but she, too, now gets to begin her first proper House term.