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December 9, 2010
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., Thursday requested Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke intervene on behalf of the recreational fishing public and associated businesses to make the quotas proposed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Fisheries Services less restrictive. The proposed 2011 Black Sea Bass quota from the agencies will over regulate the fishery and does not reflect the current status of the black sea bass stock.

December 9, 2010
Washington, D.C. – Thursday the Senate failed to move forward with giving final approval on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act creating a permanent source of funding for first-responders who were at Ground Zero during and after September 11, 2001. The cloture vote of 57-42, failed to garner enough support to end debate on the bill and vote it out of the Senate to the president’s desk, essentially killing the bill for the time being.

December 9, 2010

Washington, D. C. - Seeking stricter enforcement of sanctions on Iran, U. S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. on Thursday wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and President-elect Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, urging compliance and enforcement of international and domestic laws intended to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Pallone also wrote to two foreign-based companies doing business with Iran warning them of the consequences of violating U. S. sanctions.


December 9, 2010

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) Thursday applauded passage of the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders of 2010, averting a 25 percent payment cut to physicians who treat seniors and military families which without this bill would have taken effect January 1. Passage today means physician fees in Medicare will remain at their current levels for all of 2011.


December 2, 2010

Washington, D.C. – Taking an historic step with the most significant improvement to child nutrition in thirty years, the House on Wednesday approved and sent to the President the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,” which will greatly expand nutrition programs for hungry children in America.


December 2, 2010
Washington, D.C. – On the 30th anniversary of the Superfund program Congressman Pallone stressed that fully funding the program could go far towards cleaning up over 1,000 contaminated sites around the country. EPA’s Superfund program is responsible for the ongoing cleanup of numerous sites including the Imperial Oil and Raritan Bay Slag Superfund sites. The taxes on the oil and chemical industry that originally funded the program expired in 1995 and since then the fund has relied on general revenues from Congress.

December 1, 2010

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., who has led the fight to ban all new offshore drilling, welcomed the policy reversal announced by the Obama Administration on Wednesday in extending the ban on new offshore drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.


November 30, 2010
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. Tuesday voted in favor of the Cobell settlement, which the House approved by a vote of 256-182. Final approval by the president will award $1.4 billion in compensation for claims against the federal government for historical accounting irregularities over Native American land.

“Indian Country will finally receive the compensation and resources that it has long been owed,” said Pallone. “Justice has been delayed for too long, but this action begins to reconcile the injustices suffered by Indian Country.”

November 10, 2010

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. Wednesday released the following statement at the Gateway National Recreation Area’s second of three open houses on the General Management Plan which took place at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. Congressman Pallone has long been an advocate of maintaining and improving Sandy Hook Park.


November 5, 2010
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. Friday released the following statement on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s final catch share policy which was released Thursday.

“I have expressed considerable concern over the impact that catch shares may have on the recreational sector. I believe our priority should be improving the science and management of fisheries and that promoting another management tool until those issues have been fixed will only continue to hurt our coastal communities.