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Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to General David Petraeus' testimony before a joint hearing of the House Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees.
Piscataway, NJ --- One day before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) visited the World Trade Center (WTC) Medical Monitoring & Treatment Program in Piscataway to urge the Bush administration to stop dragging its feet on addressing the concerns of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.
Long Branch, N.J. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, and Sean Connaughton, U.S.
Washington, D.C. - Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, today denounced the Bush administration's decision to reject New York's State Plan Amendment (SPA) for its Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
For a decade now the Children's Health Insurance Program has provided six million children access to private health insurance. Thanks to CHIP, every year over the last decade the number of uninsured children fell. That is until the last two years.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today issued a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agencies responsible for protecting the New Jersey coastline, to determine what went wrong this past Labor Day weekend when trash and other debris washed ashore in Ocean County and forced several beaches to close.
President Bush has threatened to veto a bill that would provide health care insurance to five million children who are currently uninsured.
The president's reason---the bill is simply too expensive. What he ignores is the fact that the CHAMP Act is fully paid for.
Washington, DC --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced that the North Centerville Volunteer Fire Company Number One, located in Hazlet, has been awarded a $61,947 federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit struck down a prior federal court ruling that had prevented New Jersey from enforcing its safety, health, and environmental regulations on railroad solid waste transfer facilities. The court found that federal law does not necessarily preempt all state regulation of these facilities.