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PISCATAWAY, NJ – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined seniors at the Piscataway Senior Center to condemn a newly signed Republican law that slashes more than $1 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act – cuts that will hit New Jersey’s seniors especially hard. The cuts will result in 15 million Americans losing their health coverage.

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced it will release $5.5 billion in education funding it had illegally withheld from states, including $162 million owed to New Jersey schools:

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today released the following statement after House Republicans advanced a partisan appropriations bill that slashes federal funding for beach replenishment projects for the first time in nearly three decades:

Washington, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on President Trump to immediately fire Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson, citing his lack of qualifications and failed response to the deadly July 4th floods in Texas that killed at least 135 people, including “elementary school children—some as young as eight—who washed away in the night while FEMA fumbled.”

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and 32 Democratic members of Congress today called on the Trump Administration to immediately release nearly $10 million in federal funding for New Jersey programs that support survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and human trafficking. In a letter to the U.S.

LONG BRANCH, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today demanded the immediate release of $162 million in federal funding that the Trump Administration is illegally withholding from New Jersey’s public schools. In a letter sent to Trump Budget Director Russell Vought, Pallone called the move a direct attack on the state’s 1.3 million students and over 100,000 educators.

Long Branch, NJ – With summer in full swing and millions of Americans heading to federally-run beaches, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today led a letter with key House Democrats demanding immediate answers from Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about the dangerous shortage of lifeguards at National Park Service (NPS) beaches across the country. Signers include House Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman who represents the Point Reyes National Seashore, Rep. Gregory Meeks for the Jamaica Bay unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, Rep.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today in response to Senate Republicans’ updated tax and health care legislation:

“This bill is an outright disaster for New Jersey. Republicans in Congress are pushing the largest health care cuts in American history just to hand massive tax breaks to billionaires, and they’re doing it at the expense of working families in our state.