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Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the House Appropriations Committee has approved his request of $300,000 for the South Amboy Intermodal Transportation Station to improve access, increase safety and enhance passenger accommodations at the facility.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today supported The Responsible Redeployment from Iraq Act, which requires a responsible redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq beginning within 120 days of enactment and ending by April 1, 2008. The New Jersey congressman issued the following statement in support of the bill.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ,) co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, made the following statement yesterday on the floor of the House of Representatives remembering Henry Morgenthau, U.S.
A week does not go by without at least one or two Republican Senators coming forward and saying, what many of us have known for months that the president's Iraq strategy has failed.
First, it was Senators Lugar and Voinovich. Then, last week, Senator Domenici joined them in saying that a serious change in course is needed. And then on Monday Senator Snowe told NBC News that the time has come for binding legislation to bring home most of our troops.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today supported the College Cost Reduction Act, which includes the single largest increase in college aid since the G.I. bill was passed in 1944 and at no new cost to the American taxpayer.
Washington D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 2900, also known as the. "FDA Amendments Act of 2007", by a vote of 403-16. The legislation originated with the Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health. It improves current drug safety provisions, encourages greater transparency and timeliness in the drug review process, and reauthorizes the Food and Drug Administration’s essential user fee programs.
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 today during floor debate on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act (H.R. 2900).
Washington, D.C. --- In light of a decision yesterday by the Surface Transportation Board (STB) that said local environmental regulations cannot preempt federal rules that cover railways, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials to conduct a hearing on his Clean Railroads Act of 2007.
Washington, D.C. --- Five New Jersey lawmakers sent a letter today to U.S. Army Materiel Command Commanding General Benjamin S. Griffin saying that the Army's plan to move 49 employees from Fort Monmouth to Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) violates the 2005 Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) Report. In the letter, U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Christopher Smith (R-NJ) and U.S. Sens. Frank R.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), co-chairmen of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues; Adam Schiff (D-CA) and George Radanovich (R-CA), lead sponsors of the Armenian Genocide Resolution; and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), a co-sponsor of the resolution and the only Armenian-American Member of Congress, announced today that 219 Members of the House of Representatives have added their name as co-signers in support of the Armenian Genocide Recognition Resolution.