The House next meets Dec 1, 2009.

Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. [D-NJ6]
U.S. Representative, New Jersey’s 6^th District

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Outside Links

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Frank Pallone’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	New Jersey [map]
District:	6^th Congressional District [map]
Party:	Democrat
Birthday:	Oct 30, 1951 / 58 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Frank Pallone has represented New Jersey’s 6^th congressional district since 1993.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Frank Pallone:

When	Role	Representing
1993-2010	U.S. Representative	New Jersey’s 6^th	(was preceeded by Bernard Dwyer)
1989-1992	U.S. Representative	New Jersey’s 3^rd	(was preceeded by James Howard)
1987-1988	U.S. Representative	New Jersey	(At-Large/Unknown)

Sponsorship Analysis

Pallone is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Pallone is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Pallone’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Pallone, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Pallone and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Pallone.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Pallone's bills without Pallone returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Frank Pallone missed 187 (1%) of 12533 votes since Jan 23, 1990. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Pallone in 2007-2008 was $16,850 from employees of Wolff & Samson. Frank Pallone’s net worth was between $-16,959 and $689,998 in 2007, according to Pallone’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Pallone.

Committee Membership

Frank Pallone sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Member, House Committee on Natural Resources

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Frank Pallone has sponsored 254 bills since May 1, 1991 of which 238 haven't made it out of committee and 5 were successfully enacted. Pallone has co-sponsored 2526 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Pallone and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Pallone’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.R. 3792: Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009
	H.Res. 826: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a postage stamp should be issued in commemoration of Diwali, a festival celebrated by people of Indian origin.
	H.R. 4152: To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to eligible schools to assist such schools to discontinue use of a derogatory or discriminatory name or depiction as a team name, mascot, or nickname, and for other purposes.
	H.R. 2552: Medical Waste Management Act of 2009
	H.R. 1379: To prohibit the commercial harvesting of Atlantic striped bass in the coastal waters and the exclusive economic zone.

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.

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