Press Releases
Washington, D.C. --- Congressmen Jim Saxton (NJ-03) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) have asked Dr. William T. Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), to kill the proposal to eliminate allocations for small school bluefin tuna that many recreational fishermen rely on to satisfy their customers and support related businesses.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a member of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus, gave the following speech last night on the House floor in celebration of the 185th Anniversary of Greek Independence.
Washington, DC --- The entire New Jersey congressional delegation sent a letter today to Leslie V.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) made the following statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Easter uprising in 1916 and urging equality for the people of Northern Ireland.
Washington, D.C. -- In a letter to the Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company, William Clay Ford, Jr., U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today called on the company to admit how they disposed of contaminated material during cleanup of their former assembly plant in Edison and to do everything possible in the future to properly clean up that site as well as the Superfund site they created in Ringwood, New Jersey.
WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of New Jersey lawmakers today said Garden State residents should be afforded the same rights as other states in voicing their opposition to drilling off the Atlantic coast. In a letter to the Minerals Management Service, U.S. Senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg, as well as, U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone Jr., Frank A.
Washington, D.C. --- Forty-six members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a late last week to House appropriators urging that they increase funding for the Office of Generic Drugs by $15 million. The letter was sent to U.S. Reps. Henry Bonilla (R-TX), Chairman of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, and Rosa DeLauro, the subcommittee's ranking member. Text of the letter, which was sent on March 9, follows.
Plainfield, N.J. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today presented Union County College (UCC) President Thomas H.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement this afternoon in response to news that Dubai Ports World would divest itself of its U.S. holdings, which included the potential operation of six U.S. ports.
"Dubai Ports World made the right decision today in pulling out of this questionable deal. However, Congress still needs to approve legislation that I sponsored in the House that will prevent our ports from being owned or operated by foreign governments.