Press Releases

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) said today that the U.S. Senate approved a giant funding bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 that includes funding for two agriculture research projects at Rutgers University. Pallone, whose district includes Rutgers, requested the agricultural funding for the programs in a letter to members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture last year when the appropriations process began.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have now approved a giant Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 omnibus spending bill that includes $5.8 million for expansion of marine mammal research in Central Jersey. The New Jersey congressman said he secured federal funding for the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, the James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Sandy Hook, and the Striped Bass--Bluefish Population Dynamics Research Program at Rutgers University.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) secured $1 million for the continued construction of the South Amboy Intermodal Transportation Initiative, providing the critical funds to begin the second phase of the project, which calls for the construction of an elevated platform to dramatically improve safety, the addition of handicapped accessibility and the facilitation of overall upgrades to the transportation system.

Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. Senate yesterday approved a giant Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 omnibus bill that included $175,000 U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requested for the expansion of the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospitals Bristol-Myers Squibb Childrens Hospital (BMSCH) in New Brunswick. The New Jersey congressman requested the funds last year when the appropriations process began.

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.