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WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today led 87 House Democrats in demanding that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) account for deaths and medical-care failures across the nation’s immigration detention system following the latest death connected to GEO Group-operated Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey. In a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE Acting Director David J.

CARTERET, NJ — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced that the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is officially awarding $9.6 million to NJ TRANSIT for the Carteret Ferry Service Expansion Project to purchase a new ferry vessel, the latest federal investment Pallone has helped deliver to establish passenger ferry service between Central New Jersey and New York City. 

WASHINGTON, DC — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) is demanding a congressional investigation into President Trump’s denial of $84.4 million in disaster aid to New Jersey after federal officials reportedly determined the state met the government’s threshold for assistance.

In a letter to the Republican chairs overseeing FEMA, Pallone called on Congress to investigate whether politics played a role in Trump’s decision to deny aid to New Jersey and three other states led by Democratic governors.

Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requested details from the eight major U.S. airline companies as part of the Committee’s ongoing inquiry into corporate surveillance pricing practices.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) joined members of the New Jersey congressional delegation in urging President Donald J. Trump to approve Governor Mikie Sherrill’s appeal of FEMA’s denial of the State’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration following the devastating February 22–23, 2026, winter storm. New Jersey submitted its original request for federal disaster assistance on April 7, 2026, and FEMA denied that request on July 2, 2026.

LONG BRANCH, N.J. — As residents raise renewed concern about external reports documenting local toxin and heavy metal pollution around the site of the former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today called on Lee Zeldin, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as the EPA Region 2 Administrator Mike Martucci, to perform additional community-based environmental testing in Keyport’s residential areas outside of the landfill.