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Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Thursday sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Congressman Frank Wolf and Ranking Member Congressman Chaka Fattah requesting that they increase, not decrease, the Administration’s budget request for fisheries research and management programs.

Washington, DC — Contrary to its claim, the Republican budget fails to address the perennial cycle of payment cuts facing Medicare physicians and beneficiaries at the end of every year. At the end of 2011, payments to physicians in Medicare will be cut by 29.5 percent for 2012 and the reductions will continue for years thereafter. This will jeopardize access to doctors for seniors, people with disabilities, and military families (whose health insurance through TRICARE relies on Medicare’s payment rates for physicians).

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Thursday sent a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Congressman Frank Wolf and Ranking Member Congressman Chaka Fattah requesting that they increase, not decrease, the Administration’s budget request for fisheries research and management programs.

Washington, DC – Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman and Frank Pallone, Jr. released statements in support of letters sent by 18 governors in opposition to a Republican proposal that would transform Medicaid into a block grant program, threatening the program and shifting the costs and risks to states.

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) along with Congressman David Reichert (R-WA) and Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) Tuesday reintroduced the Clean Water Protection Act, legislation with bipartisan support that would prevent industrial mining waste from entering the water supply and harming human and environmental health.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ-6) and Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ-12) wrote Dr. Clifford Stanley, Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness at the Department of Defense, requesting that he approve Army Secretary John McHugh’s request to keep the Fort Monmouth Commissary open for two years beyond the Fort’s closure date in September 2011.

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-6) Thursday questioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco and National Marine Fisheries Services Assistant Administrator Eric Swaab on the Administration’s misguided budget priorities. Pallone argued the budget unfairly punishes already struggling fishermen whose livelihoods depend on the fishing industry.