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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), voted against the National Defense Authorization Act, which passed the House of Representatives. The legislation includes an amendment which would effectively undo President Obama’s landmark 2014 executive order banning all federal contractors from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, voted no on H.R. 5243, the Zika Response Appropriations Act, which passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 241-184. Pallone criticized House Republicans for providing less than one-third of the funds requested by President Obama to respond to the Zika threat and playing politics with an urgent public health issue.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) praised the Obama Administration’s announcement that the Department of Labor has updated overtime protections for nearly 5 million more workers. The rule makes more than 130,000 additional New Jersey workers eligible for extra pay by guaranteeing overtime pay to most salaried workers earning less than an estimated $47,476 a year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention announced that in 2015, the uninsured rate fell to 9.1 percent nationwide and 6.9 percent in New Jersey, down from 14.4 percent and 17.5 percent in 2013. The drop in uninsured Americans is largely the result of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) consumer protections, the Medicaid expansion, and the creation of the Health Insurance Marketplace. Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that the Monmouth Family Health Center in Long Branch, the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center in Perth Amboy and the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Community Health Center in Asbury Park were awarded grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led Democratic efforts to advance bipartisan legislation to address the nationwide opioid epidemic through the House of Representatives. The legislation passed the house by a vote of 400 to 5. The Senate passed its opioid legislation, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), on March 10 by a vote of 94 to 1 and the House and Senate will now to go conference.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, questioned representatives of the Daily Fantasy Sports industry in a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade hearing.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) sent a letter to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries requesting a public hearing on proposed seismic testing in the Atlantic Ocean that could potentially be used to open the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas exploration. Pallone also asked that the pending applications for seismic testing before NOAA be denied.