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August 13, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) is demanding a congressional investigation into President Trump’s denial of $84.4 million in disaster aid to New Jersey after federal officials reportedly determined the state met the government’s threshold for assistance.

In a letter to the Republican chairs overseeing FEMA, Pallone called on Congress to investigate whether politics played a role in Trump’s decision to deny aid to New Jersey and three other states led by Democratic governors.


August 12, 2026

Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requested details from the eight major U.S. airline companies as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into corporate surveillance pricing practices.


 


August 10, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) joined members of the New Jersey congressional delegation in urging President Donald J. Trump to approve Governor Mikie Sherrill’s appeal of FEMA’s denial of the State’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration following the devastating February 22–23, 2026, winter storm. New Jersey submitted its original request for federal disaster assistance on April 7, 2026, and FEMA denied that request on July 2, 2026.


August 7, 2026

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — As residents raise renewed concern about external reports documenting local toxin and heavy metal pollution around the site of the former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today called on Lee Zeldin, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as the EPA Region 2 Administrator Mike Martucci, to perform additional community-based environmental testing in Keyport’s residential areas outside of the landfill. 


August 6, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — All nine Democratic members of the New Jersey House delegation — Reps. Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Analilia Mejia (NJ-11), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), LaMonica McIver (NJ-10), Robert Menendez (NJ-08), Nellie Pou (NJ-09), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Herb Conaway (NJ-03), and Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) — today sent a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Acting ICE Director David J.

August 4, 2026

LONG BRANCH, NJ — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin a targeted sand replenishment project in Monmouth County, that may include sections of the towns of Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright, and Long Branch this winter.


August 4, 2026

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Amid reports that the latest detainee death at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, NJ may have been brought on by pervasive medical neglect at the facility, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.


July 29, 2026

Washington, D.C. – Top Energy and Commerce Committee Democrat Frank Pallone, Jr.


July 29, 2026

RED BANK, N.J. — New Jersey now ranks eighth in the nation for immigration arrests, with arrests increasing 159 percent since President Donald Trump's return to office, according to the Deportation Data Project. Against that backdrop, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.


July 20, 2026

Washington, D.C. — The House of Representatives today unanimously passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) to reauthorize the nation’s traumatic brain injury (TBI) programs through 2030 while renaming the federal government’s national TBI surveillance program in honor of former New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr.