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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.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Coastal Caucus, today called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update Congress on new water quality testing methods that it was required to develop by the end of last year.

Washington, D.C. --- As the U.S. Senate prepares for a historic vote tomorrow on the future of judicial filibusters, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would amend the U.S. Constitution to permanently include the right of the filibuster in all Senate proceedings.

Washington, D.C. --- In response to several news reports highlighting the lack of security at chemical sites in New Jersey and Louisiana, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today said he will work with Greenpeace to determine whether a more comprehensive legislative approach must be taken to secure chemical facilities around the nat ion, including 11 in the New Jersey that, if targeted, could affect more than one million people.

Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives approved by voice vote a bipartisan amendment tonight offered by U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Clay Shaw (R-FL) and Jeff Mil ler (R-FL) that prevents more partially treated human sewage from being dumped in our waterways. The amendment was included in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today blamed the bad fiscal practices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the House Appropriations Committee's decision to withhold funding for beach replenishment and flood control projects across most of the state.

"Chemical security is an issue of critical importance to the safety of many of my constituents and to our national security, and one that the House has not yet dealt with nearly four years after September 11th.

"Some of you may have seen a recent article in the New York Times about a chemical plant in Kearny, New Jersey that holds so many dangerous substances that intentional sabotage or an accident poses a lethal threat to 12 million people. At ten other facilities in the state, a release of toxic gas could kill upwards of one million people.