Honorable Frank Pallone, Jr.
United States Representative, New Jersey, Democrat
Representative Pallone, of the Sixth District of New Jersey, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He was a member of the Long Branch (New Jersey) City Council from 1982 to 1988 and served in the New Jersey Senate from 1983 to 1988. He sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Health, and on the Natural Resources Committee. The following is a May 12, 2010, statement issued by the office of Representative Pallone, lead sponsor of H.R. 5248, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the leasing…