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Recently, I held a student forum at Rutgers University to discuss federal policies that relate to students and young Americans. Specifically, we talked about recently proposed cuts in federal student aid, as well as how Social Security reform might impact younger workers. I felt the need to go and talk with students because I am concerned that young people in our country are largely absent from the national debate, and as a result, federal lawmakers often overlook their interests.
Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that he will introduce legislation this week in the U.S. House of Representatives instituting tougher penalties for government officials convicted on federal corruption charges. The New Jersey lawmaker's legislation excludes convicted officials from receiving any federal pensions once they are found guilty in federal court, and doubles the financial penalties corrupt officials are required to pay.
Washington, D.C. --- As House appropriators prepare to write their funding bills for the 2006 Fiscal Year, 45 Members of Congress today sent a letter to Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) and ranking member Nita Lowey (D-NY) requesting the subcommittee provide Armenia no less than $75 million in economic support. The lawmakers also requested that the subcommittee maintain military parity in aid between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Washington, D.C. --- Following today's indictment of Al-Queda terror suspects charged with targeting financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and Washington, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement a threat-based system for allocating homeland security funds. A threat-based system would give high-risk areas, like New Jersey, priority in the grant process.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior Democratic member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, today called on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to take immediate action to improve security of nuclear waste facilities at New Jersey's nuclear power plants. The New Jersey congressman's request follows a report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that showed that facilities used to cool nuclear waste, called spent fuel pools, are highly vulnerable to terrorist attack.
New Brunswick, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) hosted a student forum at Rutgers University late this afternoon to talk with students about President Bush's Social Security privatization proposal, and the elimination of several federal college grants in both the president's and House Republicans' budgets that could make affording college more difficult for students coming from lower- and middle-income families.
Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation to remove more than 30,000 drums from a lined landfill in Dover Township.
"President Bush's new mercury rule shows that he prefers to keep close ties with corporate polluters rather than protect the health of New Jersey families. The mercury rule released today clearly favors industry over public health. In fact, Administration officials ignored good science and instead let industry lobbyists write much of the new rule, which seriously imperils the progress we could be making in controlling a dangerous pollutant.
Two weeks ago, President Bush quickly stopped in on Westfield, New Jersey to talk to a bunch of his supporters about his Social Security privatization proposal. The Westfield stop was part of a six-week push to convince Americans that the Social Security program faces an immediate crisis. The traveling salesman didn't do as well as he wanted----and so now the president has hired a couple of public relations experts to run a war room at the Social Security Administration.
South Amboy, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today joined State Assemblyman John Wisniewski, South Amboy Mayor Jack O'Leary and New Jersey TRANSIT Executive Director George D. Warrington at the official opening of a new pedestrian overpass and plaza at the South Amboy Intermodal Transportation Station.