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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced that the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey Community Health Center in Asbury Park was awarded a $350,000 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will be used to increase the Center’s patient capacity and to provide additional comprehensive primary and preventive health services to medically underserved populations.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at the Marlboro Township Recreation Community Center, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, announced he and several of his Democratic colleagues on the Committee sent letters to collegiate and youth football leaders asking how they plan to prevent and mitigate the risks of degenerative brain disorders for student-athletes.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) led a bipartisan letter from members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation to Administrator Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting that it take swift action on behalf of those who have suffered from documented, widespread fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), held a roundtable discussion on President Obama’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey The Institute’s interim director Bruce G. Haffty, MD, researchers from the institute, officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and cancer research advocates also participated in the discussion.

The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act – or the SANDy Act, which was introduced in November by Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Senior Democrat on the committee.

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and CTIA, together with wireless providers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular and Verizon announced today the “Wireless Network Resiliency Cooperative Framework” [PDF] to share information and advance wireless network resiliency before, during and after disasters and emergencies.

Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, visited Boyt Drugs in Metuchen to discuss legislation addressing the growing opioid and heroin epidemic in New Jersey. Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan and Middlesex Freeholder Charles Kenny also attended the event.