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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Petitioners in the case – the State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, Inc. The nation’s highest court is expected to review a decision by the Third Circuit Court against the state.
New Brunswick, NJ- Today at Rutgers University Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), local leaders, immigration advocates, Rutgers administrators & students called on President Trump to preserve the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. The Trump administration announced that it will end the DACA program over a six month timeframe. An end to DACA would put nearly 800,000 DREAMers throughout the U.S. and approximately 22,000 DACA recipients in New Jersey at risk for deportation.
Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced his plans to develop legislation to help workers displaced from jobs in the fossil fuel industry transition to work in the clean energy sector through providing increased educational, apprenticeship, and other job training opportunities.
Long Branch, NJ- Today at the Piscataway Senior Center, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) discussed his efforts to lower prescription drug prices. As the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees healthcare, Congressman Pallone is working on legislation that would help reduce the cost of prescription drugs for seniors and working families. Middlesex County Freeholder Director Ron Rios, Piscataway Mayor Brian Wahler, other local officials and seniors attended the event.
Long Branch, NJ –Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) sent letters to the Acting Administrator for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Deputy Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association (FMCSA), expressing disappointment that the agencies failed to move forward with rulemaking that would allow testing and treatment for sleep apnea for mass transit workers. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep apnea affects more than 18 million Americans.
Long Branch, NJ - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the Department of Environmental Protection a grant of $55,417,971.88 to reimburse the state’s Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. The work being reimbursed provided for the removal of the sand and silt debris impacting state maintained navigable waterways as a result of Sandy.
Washington, DC- Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) released the following statement on the Trump administration announcing that it will deploy additional troops to Afghanistan.
“President Trump lacks a clear and coherent plan to achieve sustained peace and security in Afghanistan. Committing more American troops to our nation’s longest war is not a solution. After losing thousands of American soldiers and expending trillions of dollars in resources in Afghanistan, now is not the time to double down on a seemingly endless war.
Washington - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) announced that Rutgers University has been awarded a new National Science Foundation grant for its Engineering Department. The grant will support the department's project titled "Robust, scalable, distributed semantic mapping for search-and-rescue and manufacturing co-robots." The project hopes to enable-robots to assist with human operators in education, medical assistance, agriculture, and manufacturing applications.
UNION BEACH, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chair of the Sandy Task Force and a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee that oversees the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.-06), traveled today to Union Beach—a community on Raritan Bay devastated by Superstorm Sandy—to lay out proposed sweeping reforms to address the waste, abuse and mismanagement plaguing the system that led to delayed recovery for Sandy survivors.