Press Releases
Ocean Grove, N.J. -
Union, NJ --- One day after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican energy bill, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) held a news conference at a rest stop along the Garden State Parkway to blast Republicans for doing nothing to reduce gas prices or our dependence on foreign oil.
Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that he will introduce legislation this week in the U.S. House of Representatives instituting tougher penalties for government officials convicted on federal corruption charges.
Washington, D.C. --- As House appropriators prepare to write their funding bills for the 2006 Fiscal Year, 45 Members of Congress today sent a letter to Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and ranking member Nita Lowey (D-NY) requesting the subcommittee provide Armenia no less than $75 million in economic support.
Washington, D.C. --- Following today's indictment of Al-Queda terror suspects charged with targeting financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement a threat-based system for allocating homeland security funds.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior Democratic member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, today called on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to take immediate action to improve security of nuclear waste facilities at New Jersey's nuclear power plants.
New Brunswick, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation to remove more than 30,000 drums from a lined landfill in Dover Township.
"President Bush's new mercury rule shows that he prefers to keep close ties with corporate polluters rather than protect the health of New Jersey families. The mercury rule released today clearly favors industry over public health.
South Amboy, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today joined State Assemblyman John Wisniewski, South Amboy Mayor Jack O'Leary and New Jersey TRANSIT Executive Director George D. Warrington at the official opening of a new pedestrian overpass and plaza at the South Amboy Intermodal Transportation Station.