Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced Port Security Grant Program funding in New Jersey’s 6^th Congressional District. The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Carteret Fire Department will receive $40,000, the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office will receive $98,336 and the Perth Amboy Fire Department will receive $144,544.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-09) called on the Christie Administration to release additional information detailing how Sandy aid funds are being spent in New Jersey. In their letter to the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, the Congressmen called for more transparency in its Sandy Integrity Oversight Monitoring reports.

In Recognition of Dodd-Frank’s 5^th Anniversary, Pallone and Consumer Protection Advocates Discuss the Past, Present and Future of New Jersey Consumer Protection

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following what Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) called “unacceptable” delays and inaction by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the Congressman has stepped up his call for the banning of electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, on airplanes. Pallone today sent a letter to DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx urging the agency finalize a rule – which was originally proposed by DOT nearly four years ago, in September 2011 – banning the use of e-cigarettes on domestic and international commercial flights.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) introduced the Equality Act as an original cosponsor of the bill. The Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The legislation would apply to public accommodations, federal funding, education, employment, housing, credit, and jury service.

WASHINGTON, DC – With prescription drug abuse on the rise, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today applauded Health Subcommittee passage of the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER) Act. The program provides grant funding to states for prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). PDMPs aid in combatting the growing prescription drug abuse epidemic by helping prescribers, pharmacists, and law enforcement officials track the misuse of prescription drugs.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced a $350,000 grant to Rutgers University’s Papers of Thomas Edison project from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will allow the project to prepare for publication two volumes (volumes 9 and 10) of the papers of inventor Thomas Edison, covering the period 1888-1892.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced more than $5.7 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for various housing and economic development programs in Monmouth County and municipalities in Monmouth and Middlesex Counties.