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September 23, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that his Cardiomyopathy Health, Education, Awareness, Research, and Training in Schools (HEARTS) Act has overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

Issues: Health Care

September 18, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Tonight, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led a bipartisan effort to honor the memory of his late colleague and close friend, Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), by preserving Pascrell's groundbreaking work on traumatic brain injury (TBI) awareness and treatment. Just weeks after the 14-term Congressman’s passing, Pallone successfully guided House passage of H.R.


September 16, 2024

Piscataway, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, held a press conference at the Piscataway Senior Citizen Center to discuss new Medicare drug price negotiations—a key provision of the Inflation Reduction Act.


August 26, 2024

As Medicare negotiates lower prices, we are slashing drug costs for New Jersey residents

Frank Pallone Jr.

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August 22, 2024

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) is highlighting legislation in his House Energy and Commerce Committee – H.R.

Issues: Health Care

August 15, 2024

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the top Democrat on the House Energy & Commerce Committee, today praised the Biden-Harris Administration’s successful negotiation of Medicare prescription drug prices for the first time in the program's history—a direct result of the Inflation Reduction Act.


August 14, 2024

New Brunswick, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today led a roundtable discussion at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to highlight the alarming findings of a new report released by his committee. The report, led by Pallone, thoroughly investigates the wide-ranging impact of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022, which overturned the right to abortion care established by Roe v. Wade in 1973.


August 7, 2024

Long Branch, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today visited the Monmouth Family Health Center as part of National Health Center Week (August 4-10). This week celebrates the contributions of America's health centers, which provide essential services like preventive care, health education, and chronic disease management.


July 29, 2024

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today expressed strong support for the U.S. Pharmacopeia's (USP) new guidelines for the use of synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood in drug and medical device safety testing. Pallone emphasized the importance of these guidelines as a step toward reducing pharmaceutical industry reliance on Atlantic horseshoe crabs while ensuring a safe medical product supply chain.