Congressman Frank Pallone helps give N.J. Democrats a voice
Profiles on the Potomac
Bob Braun has continued his series of profiles on the Potomac. On November 19th he did a profile Congressman Frank Pallone entitled Congressman Frank Pallone helps give N.J. Democrats a voice.
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Congressman Pallone was elected to Congress in 1988. This makes him the most senior Democrat in the New Jersey delegation.
Braun describes Congressman Pallone as:
He is arguably the most powerful Democrat in New Jersey’s House delegation, a consequence not just of seniority but also his central role in developing the new health care reform bill and other legislation and also his leadership position with the Democratic majority – he’s in charge of the party’s message, the man who lines up all those floor speeches seen by C-SPAN viewers, if no one else.
Pallone also is among the hardest working – running the health subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce panel that, in this session alone, produced new food safety standards, extended health care for children, and developed procedures for approval of new medicines based on biological, rather than chemical, sources.
The Advocacy Network has always found him to be supportive of many of our issues.
In 2008 he was ranked as Very Supportive in the 2008 Report Card. He supported five of the six issues.
However, he has never attended one of the Advocacy Network’s Congressional Receptions. In 2008 he sent an aide.
Pallone is the self-described “message man,” carrying stacks of paper, trailed by an aide, talking other Democrats into coming back to the well of the House to speak in favor of health care reform or the energy bill, or the stimulus package. He spends a lot of time in a virtually empty chamber himself, often late into the night, speaking to the C-SPAN camera, getting into the record, moving the message.
If he is the message man, we need him more than ever to be the message man for ending homelessness.
“Once I was elected back in elementary school, I wanted to expand the scope of my interests – to be able to do more for more people,” says Frank Pallone.”
Congressman Pallone now is the time to expand the scope of your interests and help end homelessness.
