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When is President Bush going to level with the American people about the U.S. economy? This past weekend, during his weekly radio address, he said the economy is on the right track. The president's statement came one day after disappointing jobs numbers showed our economy only created 78-thousand new jobs in May----the smallest number is almost two years. Keep in mind that the economy has to create 150,000 jobs each month just to keep pace with more workers entering the workforce.
Piscataway, N.J. --- With the House Homeland Security Committee set to hold its first hearing on chemical security next Tuesday in Washington, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and New Jersey State Senator Bob Smith (D-Piscataway) hosted a roundtable discussion today to hear from representatives of environmental, industry, labor, and emergency management groups on how best we can protect New Jersey's chemical facilities from potential terrorist attacks.
Edison, NJ --- After taking a tour of the Chemical Insecticide Corporation (CIC) Superfund site today and witnessing the last truckload of contaminated soil being removed from the site, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) both lauded the completion of the cleanup and expressed their gratitude to the Edison community for helping them fight for federal funding over the past 15 years.
Eatontown, NJ. --- Today, U.S. Reps. Rush Holt (NJ-12) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) chaired a Save Our Fort Committee Meeting at which committee members discussed the upcoming Friday visit of two of the BRAC Commissioners.
Neptune, N.J. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) held a discussion today with local veterans and students at Neptune High School in Neptune. During the discussion, Pallone also announced the introduction of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that encourages a dialogue between students and war veterans.
Sea Bright, NJ --- One day before the summer beach season officially kicks off, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today proclaimed our beaches clean and safe at a news conference on the beach in Sea Bright. The New Jersey congressman joined U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Regional Administrator Kathy Callahan and Clean Ocean Action Executive Director Cindy Zipf.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, today assailed the cancellation of a conference on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey that was scheduled to begin yesterday. The New Jersey congressman gave the following statement on the House floor this afternoon.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice my outrage and great disappointment about a recent development in Turkey. A conference set to begin yesterday in Bogazici University, of Turkish scholars/academics entitled "Ottoman Armenians du ring the Decline of the Empire: Issues of Scientific Responsibility and Democracy", was indefinitely postponed by the University organizers.
Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved by voice vote an amendment to a military spending bill that ensures no funds in the bill can be used to close or realign a military installation included on the Defense Department's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list until the Secretary of Defense makes all the information available on which its recommendations were based.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) tonight supported an amendment offered to the 2006 Defense Authorization Bill by U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-NH) that would postpone action on the final Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recommendations. The amendment was defeated this evening by a vote of 316 to 112.