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WASHINGTON, DC - As the 2016 Major League Baseball (MLB) season begins, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today demanded that chewing tobacco finally be banned from Major League Baseball.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) Co-Chair of the Congressional Armenian Issues Caucus, released the following statement condemning the newest wave of large-scale attacks by Azerbaijan against Nagorno Karabakh.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), visited the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University to recognize Autism Awareness Month and observe the crucial services the center provides and discuss the importance of state and federal research for Autism.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined 44 current and former Senators and 164 current and former House Members to file an amicus brief in support of the Obama administration’s historic ‘Clean Power Plan’ (CPP). As the Democratic Leader of the committee with jurisdiction over the Clean Power Plan and the Clean Air Act, Pallone led the effort on the brief in the House.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-06), senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, questioned EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy about cuts to programs responsible for monitoring coastal water health and Superfund site cleanup. Pallone emphasized that a clean environment is essential to public health and to a strong economy.

Video of Congressman Pallone’s questions can be found here.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Co-Chair of the Armenian Issues Caucus, along with 32 members of Congress, sent the following letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Chairwoman Kay Granger and Ranking Member Nita Lowey. In preparing the Fiscal Year 2017 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations bill, the lawmakers are requesting that the subcommittee support increased funding for U.S. assistance to Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh.

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, members of the Congressional Armenian Issues Caucus met with the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills. The members in attendance were Co-Chairs Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and Robert Dold (R-Ill.), and Congressmen David Cicilline (D-RI), Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) and David Valadao (R-CA). The discussion focused on expanding the economic partnership between the United States and Armenia particularly in the tourism sector, the escalating violence in Nagorno-Karabakh and development and humanitarian aid.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement on Secretary Kerry’s determination that ISIS has committed genocide against groups in Syria and Iraq.