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Long Branch, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) today announced the recipients of the Congressional Award, this year’s U.S. Service Academy nominees, and the winners of the 2025 Sixth Congressional District High School Arts Competition at an awards ceremony. 

Pallone also announced the winners of the Congressional App Challenge and the winners of the tenth-annual Poetry Showcase. Students representing multiple local schools were honored at a reception at Middlesex College. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today sent a letter to Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding answers about the recent staffing upheaval and treatment delays at the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), which provides medical care to more than 132,000 9/11 responders and survivors.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-6) announced that his office will be participating in the Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for students interested in computer science, app development, and coding. The Challenge submission period will run from May 1, 2025, through October 30, 2025. The competition is open to all middle and high school students from New Jersey’s Sixth Congressional District who meet the eligibility requirements, regardless of coding experience.

Washington, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today revealed deeply troubling dysfunction inside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that threatens the agency’s ability to alert public safety agencies to extreme weather – even as wildfires rage in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.

Long Branch, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today sent a letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Mark Christie urging the commission to investigate the most recent capacity auction conducted by PJM Interconnection—New Jersey’s regional power grid operator. The results of the auction will cause energy prices across the Mid-Atlantic to increase this summer.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pushed House passage of the bipartisan TICKET Act today – commonsense legislation that will bring long-overdue transparency and fairness to the live event ticketing marketplace. Pallone managed the bill on the House floor ahead of the vote, highlighting the need to end hidden fees and protect consumers from deceptive and speculative ticket sales.

Long Branch, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and New Jersey Speaker Coughlin sent a letter today to NL Industries, Inc. demanding immediate and comprehensive action to clean up toxic pollution left behind in the Raritan River near the company’s former titanium dioxide facility in Sayreville, New Jersey.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) is demanding transparency from the Trump Administration following reports that dozens of Social Security Administration (SSA) field offices nationwide could be quietly closed, including two in his Congressional district in New Brunswick and Woodbridge that directly serve his constituents.