Seniors
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined seniors at the Piscataway Senior Center to condemn a newly signed Republican law that slashes more than $1 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act – cuts that will hit New Jersey’s seniors especially hard. The cuts will result in 15 million Americans losing their health coverage.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today in response to Senate Republicans’ updated tax and health care legislation:
“This bill is an outright disaster for New Jersey. Republicans in Congress are pushing the largest health care cuts in American history just to hand massive tax breaks to billionaires, and they’re doing it at the expense of working families in our state.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard E. Neal (D-MA), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a statement following a new analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing 16 million people will lose coverage from the Republican reconciliation plan, including their failure to extend premium tax credits that Americans use to buy affordable health insurance.
Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued an updated analysis of Republicans’ One Big Ugly Bill:
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House floor around 4 a.m. in opposition to President Trump's One Big Ugly Bill as Republican leaders rushed to pass their tax scam under cover of night:
Washington, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, warned today that House Republicans are advancing devastating cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium assistance that would threaten health care coverage for up to 814,000 of New Jersey residents.
Washington, D.C. –Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released the following statement after Republicans advanced the largest Medicaid cut in history in their budget reconciliation bill:
“It’s outrageous Republicans forced this debate to occur late into the night when most of the country was asleep and couldn’t see what they were up to.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) is demanding transparency from the Trump Administration following reports that dozens of Social Security Administration (SSA) field offices nationwide could be quietly closed, including two in his Congressional district in New Brunswick and Woodbridge that directly serve his constituents.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today slammed the Trump Administration’s decision to rip away $11 billion in public health funding — including $350 million already promised to New Jersey — calling it a “political stunt” that will endanger lives and destabilize the state’s health system.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and his Democratic colleagues have forced the Trump Administration to delay a controversial plan to eliminate phone-based services at the Social Security Administration (SSA) — a move that would have created massive barriers for millions of Americans, especially seniors and people with disabilities who rely on live phone support to access their benefits.