Press Releases
"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.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, today introduced legislation supporting India's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nation's Security Council. Pallone's legislation, a "Sense of Congress," would put the U.S. House of Representatives officially on record in support of India's bid.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Democrat of the House Fisheries and Oceans Subcommittee, will join U.S. Reps. Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Sam Farr (D-CA) at a press conference on Wednesday, February 9 at 12:30 p.m. to release a letter signed by over 50 of their House colleagues calling on the Bush Administration to reexamine their salmon policies and to work to save and restore salmon runs. Pallone led the effort on the letter to Bush.
"Last week, President Bush spent the majority of his State of the Union Address talking about his Social Security privatization plan and the continued war in Iraq, and yet neither of these funding priorities appeared in his budget.
"The Inspector General's alarming report shows just how far the Bush administration will go to satisfy corporate polluters. The Bush administration must have realized scientists at EPA would never come back with the lenient rules it wanted, and that's why the administration rigged the process from the very beginning.
"Based on the IG's findings, the administration simply cannot go ahead with finalizing this rule next month. It's clear corporate and administration biases won out over sound science in the creation of EPA's new mercury rule.