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WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration prepares to proceed with a policy change that would weaken the 30-year-old Clean Water Act, 135 Members of Congress today sent a letter to Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson urging the EPA not to implement a proposal that would allow partially treated human sewage to be dumped into our waterways. The letter, which was initiated by U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), E. Clay Shaw, Jr.
Smithville, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today holds a town hall forum with senior citizens at the Four Seasons at Historic Smithville to listen to their opinions about President Bush's general proposal to partially privatize Social Security. The New Jersey congressman's visit with seniors is part of a daylong Social Security listening tour throughout the state. Pallone made the following introductory comments before listening to the seniors' thoughts and concerns.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, praised Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian's speech before the United Nations last month commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The New Jersey congressman submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record today, and included the foreign minister's comments.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) and U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced comprehensive legislation in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives respectively that establishes a global tsunami warning system and calls for long-term assistance and relief to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in South Asia.
"Mr. Speaker, this Sunday, February 20th, 2005 will mark the 17th anniversary of the modern day liberation movement of the people of the Nagorno Karabakh (NK). Seventeen years ago the people of NK petitioned the Soviet government to correct historical injustices and reunite them with their compatriots in Armenia.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) introduced bipartisan legislation yesterday that would allow U.S. citizens who own property in the Turkish occupied portion of the Republic of Cyprus to seek financial remedies with either the current inhabitants of their land or the Turkish government.
Washington, D.C. --- One day after learning that nine U.S. corporations, accompanied by an Attach from the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, are scheduled to visit occupied northern Cyprus later this week to explore possible business opportunities, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that she reconsider this ill-advised and illegal trip. In his letter, the New Jersey congressman said the delegation would be breaking the law by entering Cyprus through an "unauthorized" airport in the occupied north.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, today called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate threatening comments made on a radio program in Philadelphia during a phone conversation with a call center operator in India. The New Jersey congressman made the request in a formal letter to FCC Chairman Michael Powell.
Washington, D.C. --- As the U.S. Congress prepares to take up energy legislation in the coming months, 14 members of the New Jersey congressional delegation sent a letter today to President Bush asking that he oppose any offshore oil exploration off the coast of New Jersey. The bipartisan letter was prompted by reports that strong efforts will be made by U.S. Sen.
"At a time when the Bush administration is proposing the elimination of 150 federal programs, it is somewhat ironic that its final salmon plan released last November actually proposes $6 billion in additional spending just to continue with a recovery plan that will, in all likelihood, not do anything to increase wild salmon populations.
"The Bush administration's salmon plan not only makes no economic sense, it hurts people and it hurts the environment.