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Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives approved a giant funding bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 that includes $500,000 for the construction of the Community Health Center of Asbury Park (CHCAP). U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requested the funds earlier this year in a letter to the members of the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee. The U.S. Senate is expected to pass the same bill later today.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), cochairmen of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, today called on the United States to renounce and to secure the retraction of an Azeri United Nations resolution that urges the removal of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the lawmakers expressed concern that the resolution would undermine peace talks in the region.

Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded a $173,628 federal grant to the Highlands Volunteer Fire Department to fund firefighter training and fitness programs and to purchase needed firefighting and firehouse equipment.

Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, today criticized the Bush Administration's decision to abstain from a United Nations committee vote on a controversial Azeri resolution calling for the removal of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. The resolution was approved today by the U.N. General Committee and is now able to be brought before the U.N. General Assembly.

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) will join Sandy Hook Superintendent Richard Wells and other local elected officials at a ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, October 29 to mark the official opening of the new Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway.

Washington, D.C. --- Days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that cleanup of 34 Superfund sites will not be cleaned up this year due to a of lack of funding, a bipartisan group of 106 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to House appropriators asking them to fund Superfund cleanup at the level supported by the Senate. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved $127 million more for Superfund cleanups in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 than the House Appropriations Committee did.

Long Branch, N.J. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure that a new New York City solid waste management proposal to transport trash on barges will not have any adverse impact on the Floatables Action Plan.

Long Branch, NJ --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues and a member of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, today urged the State Department to strongly condemn a new penal code adopted by the Turkish Government late last month that would punish Turkish citizens or groups with up to ten years in prison if they confirm the fact of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey or call for the end of the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus.