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Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the U.S. House of Representatives approved a Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 omnibus bill that includes funding for the South River and Millbrook flood control project and the maintenance dredging of the Raritan River.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of both the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement today after U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced plans to revamp the Bush administration's last minute offshore drilling plan.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, issued the following statement today praising President Obama for rescinding a Bush administration directive that restricts the ability of states to cover uninsured children through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, gave the following statement on the House floor this afternoon urging his colleagues to support H.R. 2, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. The New Jersey congressman is the author of the legislation. If the legislation is passed today, it will be sent to President Obama's desk for his signature later today.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, praised President Obama today for signing H.R. 2, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, into law. The New Jersey congressman is the author of the new law, which was passed earlier today in the House by a vote of 290 to 135.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would reinstate a Superfund tax to ensure polluters, not taxpayers, pay for the cleanup of all Superfund sites.

Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent the following letter to Acting Attorney General Mark Filip asking whether First Assistant United States Attorney Michele A. Brown had permission to attend a recent political gathering with New Jersey Republican Party leaders and staffers about former U.S. Attorney Christopher J.

Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Reps. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent the following letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, requesting an investigation into the bird culling incident in Somerset County, New Jersey.

January 29, 2009

Ms. Cindy Smith