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June 8, 2016

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) visited New hope Treatment in Marlboro to discuss legislation to combat the opioid epidemic.


June 8, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act for the 21st Century. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, helped lead Democratic efforts to pass the bill in the House and it now heads to the President for signature.


June 8, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) applauded Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to strengthen ties between the United States and India during a speech before a joint session of Congress. Pallone, a co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, served on the escort committee that led Modi into the House chamber.


June 6, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone (NJ-06), who serves as the top Democrat of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led his colleagues in sending a letter to Cathleen Bennett, Acting Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health, following up on a


June 6, 2016

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) called for chewing tobacco to be banned from Major League Baseball at the Woodbridge Little League Field.


June 3, 2016

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – This week in Plainsboro, NJ, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) hosted a roundtable focused on the biotech and pharmaceutical industries based in New Jersey. The roundtable also focused on the importance of diversity in the innovation economy.


June 3, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) announced that his office will be participating in the Congressional App Challenge, an app competition for U.S. high school students. The Challenge submission period will run from July 18, 2016 through November 2, 2016.


June 2, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Congressman Robert Dold (IL-10), Co-Chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, applauded the German Bundestag, lower house of parliament, for overwhelmingly passing a resolution declaring the killings of Armenians by the government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915 a genocide.


May 31, 2016

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) discussed the importance of the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act – or the SANDy Act – at a cell phone tower in Edison, NJ.


May 27, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) applauded the introduction of the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act – or the SANDy Act- in the Senate by U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Charles Schumer (D-NY).