Press Releases

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, today assailed the cancellation of a conference on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey that was scheduled to begin yesterday. The New Jersey congressman gave the following statement on the House floor this afternoon.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my outrage and great disappointment about a recent development in Turkey. A conference set to begin yesterday in Bogazici University, of Turkish scholars/academics entitled "Ottoman Armenians du ring the Decline of the Empire: Issues of Scientific Responsibility and Democracy", was indefinitely postponed by the University organizers.

Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved by voice vote an amendment to a military spending bill that ensures no funds in the bill can be used to close or realign a military installation included on the Defense Department's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list until the Secretary of Defense makes all the information available on which its recommendations were based.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) tonight supported an amendment offered to the 2006 Defense Authorization Bill by U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH) that would postpone action on the final Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recommendations. The amendment was defeated this evening by a vote of 316 to 112.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Coastal Caucus, today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update Congress on new water quality testing methods that it was required to develop by the end of last year.

Washington, D.C. --- As the U.S. Senate prepares for a historic vote tomorrow on the future of judicial filibusters, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would amend the U.S. Constitution to permanently include the right of the filibuster in all Senate proceedings.

Washington, D.C. --- In response to several news reports highlighting the lack of security at chemical sites in New Jersey and Louisiana, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today said he will work with Greenpeace to determine whether a more comprehensive legislative approach must be taken to secure chemical facilities around the nat ion, including 11 in the New Jersey that, if targeted, could affect more than one million people.

Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives approved by voice vote a bipartisan amendment tonight offered by U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Clay Shaw (R-FL) and Jeff Mil ler (R-FL) that prevents more partially treated human sewage from being dumped in our waterways. The amendment was included in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.