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August 22, 2017

Long Branch, NJ - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the Department of Environmental Protection a grant of $55,417,971.88 to reimburse the state’s Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The work being reimbursed provided for the removal of the sand and silt debris impacting state maintained navigable waterways as a result of Sandy.


August 22, 2017

Washington, DC- Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) released the following statement on the Trump administration announcing that it will deploy additional troops to Afghanistan.

“President Trump lacks a clear and coherent plan to achieve sustained peace and security in Afghanistan. Committing more American troops to our nation’s longest war is not a solution. After losing thousands of American soldiers and expending trillions of dollars in resources in Afghanistan, now is not the time to double down on a seemingly endless war.


August 18, 2017
Washington - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that Rutgers University has been awarded two National Science Foundation grants for robotics and prosthetic research. The first grant of $682,646 is for a project entitled "S&AS: FND: Reflective Learning of Stochastic Physical Models for Robust Manipulation," and will help develop the use of robots in everyday life. The second grant is for $1,182,466 and entitled "CHS: Medium: Data Driven Biomechanically Accurate Modeling of Human Gait on Unconstrained Terrain”.

August 17, 2017

Washington - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that Rutgers University has been awarded a new National Science Foundation grant for its Engineering Department. The grant will support the department's project titled "Robust, scalable, distributed semantic mapping for search-and-rescue and manufacturing co-robots." The project hopes to enable-robots to assist with human operators in education, medical assistance, agriculture, and manufacturing applications.


August 17, 2017

UNION BEACH, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chair of the Sandy Task Force and a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee that oversees the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.-06), traveled today to Union Beach—a community on Raritan Bay devastated by Superstorm Sandy—to lay out proposed sweeping reforms to address the waste, abuse and mismanagement plaguing the system that led to delayed recovery for Sandy survivors.


August 17, 2017

Long Branch, NJ- Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), local officials and religious leaders stood in solidarity against the hate, racism, and violence that took place in Charlottesville, VA last weekend. Congressman Pallone has spoken out against the white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, criticized the unwillingness of President Trump to do the same, and called for those sympathetic to white nationalism in the White House to be fired.


August 17, 2017

Long Branch, NJ- Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the Ranking Member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees health, visited the Monmouth Family Health Center to commemorate National Health Center Week. Pallone visited with the Health Center’s employees and discussed its importance in providing quality care to the surrounding communities.


August 15, 2017

Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D NJ-06) issued a statement in celebration of India’s 71st Independence Day Anniversary.


August 15, 2017

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), called for Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Stephen Miller to be removed from their positions in the White House given their affiliation with white supremacist ideology and groups.


August 14, 2017

Long Branch, NJ - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone issued the following statement about the tragic events that occurred this weekend in Charlottesville and the President’s failure to adequately respond: