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Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the House Resources Fisheries and Oceans Subcommittee, today issued an open challenge to the Bush administration and the Republican Congress to fully fund ocean and coastal programs following the recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP).

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the House Fisheries and Oceans Subcommittee, said today that the House Resources Committee approved legislation he introduced earlier this year that provides additional support to regional and local ocean clean-up efforts.

Washington, D.C. --- In response to a letter sent by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to conduct an analysis of the environmental justice impacts of the former Ringwood Superfund site on the surrounding community and to consider re-listing Ringwood as an active Superfund site.

Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Conference Report that includes funds for the continuation of critical shore protection projects in Monmouth County, said U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).

Washington, D.C. --- Seven Democratic New Jersey lawmakers sent a letter today to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff requesting his department reconsider recent immigration procedural changes that would severely hamper the lawmakers' ability to provide critical services to their constituents. The changes were announced in an October 5th email from a Congressional Liaison at the Newark Service Center for the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the announcement of a criminal indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby:

"The Plame leak was a serious breech of national security. It shows just how far the Bush White House was willing to go to sell the war in Iraq and to discredit anyone who disagreed with its actions abroad.

Washington, D.C. --- In the wake of new record profits posted by the largest oil and gas corporations, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced plans to introduce legislation that would impose a windfall profits tax on those companies and return the money to American consumers struggling with high energy prices.

(Washington, DC.) Representatives Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today reacted with disappointment to Congresss failure to pass a resolution of disapproval on the proposed final Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list submitted by President Bush to the Congress.