Press Releases
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans and co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, today announced bipartisan efforts to examine the reasons behind a serious decline in India's wild tiger populations.
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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. The New Jersey congressman was joined at today's event by Jeanne Fox, President of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) and Emily Rusch from New Jersey PIRG.
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. The New Jersey lawmaker's legislation excludes convicted officials from receiving any federal pensions once they are found guilty in federal court, and doubles the financial penalties corrupt officials are required to pay.
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. The lawmakers also requested that the subcommittee maintain military parity in aid between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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. A threat-based system would give high-risk areas, like New Jersey, priority in the grant process.
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. The New Jersey congressman's request follows a report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that showed that facilities used to cool nuclear waste, called spent fuel pools, are highly vulnerable to terrorist attack.
New Brunswick, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) hosted a student forum at Rutgers University late this afternoon to talk with students about President Bush's Social Security privatization proposal, and the elimination of several federal college grants in both the president's and House Republicans' budgets that could make affording college more difficult for students coming from lower- and middle-income families.
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. In fact, Administration officials ignored good science and instead let industry lobbyists write much of the new rule, which seriously imperils the progress we could be making in controlling a dangerous pollutant.