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Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) called for updates to cars that can prevent children's heatstroke deaths at a press conference on Thursday, referencing the bill he is trying to help pass, the Hot Cars Act.
"The main point that I'm trying to make today is that no child should lose their life because they become trapped in a hot car," Pallone said.
A delegation of lawmakers toured the Elizabeth detention center holding immigrant detainees for nearly three hours Wednesday and emerged from the facility to detail what they saw.
"It's stark. They don't have separate dormitories. They have a cot and they're all together," Rep. Frank Pallone said as he left the detention center.
Nearly three dozen members of Congress sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday morning expressing their concern over the agency's treatment of transgender detainees and demanding the agency take transgender migrants' asylum claims more seriously.
The letter, sent by 34 lawmakers and spearheaded by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., was signed by Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Deb Haaland, D-N.M., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., among others and comes after the deaths of two transgender women who were held in detention.
Wielding new power as a committee chairman, Frank Pallone pursues his pragmatic agenda.
Frank Pallone Jr. is, first and foremost, the congressman from the Jersey Shore. To drive home that point, his name shows up in the news every year as the guy who helps replenish the sand on our beaches—an estimated total of 163 million cubic yards of the stuff over the last three decades, at a cost of $1.2 billion to the federal government.
New Jersey Democrat doesn't minimize challenges in reaching agreement in Congress but says there ‘needs to be federal action'
House Democrats, led by New Jersey's Rep. Frank Pallone, are hoping to come up with a consensus plan by the end of the year laying out a pathway to achieve a 100 percent clean-energy economy by 2050.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House took action Wednesday to rein in those annoying robocalls, which bother the average New Jersey resident more than once every three days.
The bill, sponsored by New Jersey's Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th Dist., passed the House, 429-3.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump would be blocked from opening the Atlantic Coast to offshore oil drilling under legislation approved by the U.S. House on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, Amir Allen traveled to the Dominican Republic to meet his father for Father's Day. But when he got off the plane, he learned that his father, Joseph Allen, 55, from New Jersey, had died of cardiac arrest, said Amir's uncle, Jason Allen.
Joseph Allen had arrived on the island on June 9 to celebrate a friend's birthday and was found dead in his room at the Terra Linda Resort in Sosua on June 10.
"He was a funny guy, full of life," said Jason Allen, who noted that his brother, though heavyset, was healthy.
On Wednesday afternoon, the family of 53-year-old Joseph Allen learned that he died of a suspected heart attack at a resort in the Dominican Republic, and his sudden passing occurred under similar, suspicious circumstances to nine other Americans on the Caribbean island since last summer.