Press Releases
Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate yesterday approved more than $83 million in aid and military assistance to Armenia and aid to Nagorno Karabakh as part of a large omnibus bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004, said U.S. Reps. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues.
"At a time when the president should be proposing serious initiatives aimed at creating jobs, ensuring Americans access to affordable health care, and shoring up Social Security and Medicare, President Bush once again turns his back on the middle class by touting health savings accounts that benefit only five percent of Americans and a privatization plan for Social Security that seriously jeopardizes the programs future.
Long Branch, NJ --- Four Monmouth County lawmakers today requested that George Zoffinger, President of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, insure that the public be included in the proposal to lease Monmouth Park by making all relevant information available to the public and holding a public forum in which citizens could voice their opinions.
Washington, D.C. --- 64 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter yesterday to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Leavitt urging he reconsider an agency proposal that would allow insufficiently treated sewage to be released into our nation's waterways during rainstorms. The EPA guidance, released in November, would only require waste treatment facilities to perform primary treatments of wastewater during wet weather that filter out solids, without further requirements for secondary treatment or disinfection.
Delhi, India--- After a meeting with Kashmiri Pandits today in Delhi, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. sent the following letter to Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani urging the Indian government reconsider its policy of isolating Kashmiri Pandits.
Delhi, India--- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. today toured the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) facility and said that more international support was still needed in the fight against AIDS. Pallone, a Democratic Congressman from New Jersey, co-founded the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans in 1993 and served as the co-chair from 1993-1998. With well over 100 members, the Caucus seeks to identify issues of concern to the growing U.S./India relationship and to advocate policies to strengthen that relationship.
New Delhi, India--- Nearly 20 years after the Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal leaked 40 tons of lethal gas killing 4,000 people and injuring more than 20,000, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. today called on Dow Chemical to finally accept responsibility and address the extreme environmental and health problems that still exist. Pallone was scheduled to tour the grounds of the disaster today and meet with victims, but unfortunately had to postpone the trip. The New Jersey congressman vowed to come to Bhopal on a future trip.
Thank you very much for hosting the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce delegation and me today.
The members of the India Caucus, including myself have tried to encourage more trade with India, in part by identifying key areas where there is the most potential. The purpose of my trip to India this week under the auspices of the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce, a New Jersey diaspora organization based in my Congressional district, is to develop economic opportunities between our two countries.
Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
Bombay, India--- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. gave the following speech tonight at a dinner hosted by the Indo-American Society.
I want to thank the Indo-American Society for inviting me to Mumbai to receive this award tonight. I have spent a lot of time over the last 10 years trying to improve relations between the United States and India, and I know this effort has been pushed by good people in both countries like yourselves.