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"I am pleased to join my colleagues today in reintroducing the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act, or 'NASPER' legislation. Every year we come closer to signing this important piece of legislation into law, particularly last year when the bill passed on the House floor, and I believe my colleagues and I stand here today determined to bring this bill to the President as soon as possible.

"Mr. Speaker, Ambassador Evans, the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, recently when meeting with Armenian Americans during visits in several U.S. cities referenced the Armenian genocide. In a series of public statements, Ambassador Evans who has studied Russian history at Yale and Columbia and Ottoman history at the Kennan Institute stated, 'I will today call it the Armenian Genocide.'

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, today announced a Capitol Hill event in Washington to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the improper allocation of port security funds by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the Bush Administration to resume cleanup efforts at the Ringwood Mines/Landfill Superfund site and to place the site back on the national Superfund priority list. The lawmakers' request follows recent reports that, more than a decade after the cleanup at Ringwood was declared completed, the site continues to show dangerous levels of contaminants that threaten the health and well-being of nearby residents.

Washington, D.C. --- With Fort Monmouth preparing to reduce contractor staffing in the face of approximately $11 million in budget cuts this fiscal year, U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Rush Holt (D-NJ) today voiced their opposition to the cuts that will impact support service contractors at the Fort.

Lincroft, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today met with college students at Brookdale Community College to listen to their opinions about President Bush's general proposal to partially privatize Social Security. The New Jersey congressman's visit with the college students is part of a daylong Social Security listening bus tour throughout the state.

WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration prepares to proceed with a policy change that would weaken the 30-year-old Clean Water Act, 135 Members of Congress today sent a letter to Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson urging the EPA not to implement a proposal that would allow partially treated human sewage to be dumped into our waterways. The letter, which was initiated by U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), E. Clay Shaw, Jr.