Representative Albio Sires News

A $1.1 trillion spending bill that Congress is sending to the White House contains $200 million to continue work on building a second set of rail tunnels under the Hudson River.

New legislation looks to boost the federal government's investment in urban parks for the first time in eight years.

From Gotham Gazette : Legislation has been introduced in Congress that would provide federal funding for urban parks and recreation for the first time in eight years.

U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen is the eighth richest member of the House of Representatives, according to data compiled by Roll Call .

WASHINGTON - Calling the November nor'easter one of the decade's worst storms to hit the Jersey Shore, Democrats and Republicans in the state's congressional delegation are seeking a presidential disaster declaration.

THERE WERE ups and downs for Sen. Bob Menendez , D-N.J., this past holiday week.

Many of Hudson County's charitable organizations are doing their best to provide a Thanksgiving dinner for all families with .

The Hudson Bergen Light Rail is seeing more riders and reducing pollution according to an environmental study released at a press conference at Exchange Place in Jersey City today.

REFERRING to Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. as a "godfather" in another context might have resulted in one of his well-known rants about slurs against Italian-Americans, such as when he hoped the producers of "The Sopranos" would "choke on their money." But Pascrell, D-Paterson, was happy to hear the term applied to him Wednesday when House Majority Leader ...

Critics of relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba said today that the Castro regime first has to agree to return criminal fugitives, including a woman who murdered a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.

I'd like to thank "Dictator" Barack Obama for taking our once-proud Republic a step closer to a socialist empire.

New Jersey is home to eight House members of the Democrat party. Days ago they witnessed their blue state turn red for the first time in over a decade, to say that they are worried would be an understatement.

SECRETARY CLINTON RECEIVES IMPORTANT CYPRUS COMMUNICATION SIGNED BY OVER 30% OF U.S. CONGRESS WASHINGTON, DC, October 26, 2009 -- Today the U.S. Congress sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter signed by 132 Members of Congress expressing support for the Administration's efforts to avoid mistakes of failed efforts of the past in helping ...

TWO GRANT programs Rep. Bill Pascrell helped create for fire departments around the country would be extended another five years under a bill introduced last week.

Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez , Rep. Albio Sires , Mayor Mark Smith and Fire Chief Greg Rogers today announced the Bayonne Fire Department will receive $3.56 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Fire Station Construction Grant program to build a new firehouse.A Currently, one Bayonne fire station is operating ...

Officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday the minimal 10-year timetable is not set in stone as U.S. Rep.

The unexpected announcement late this evening by John Wisniewski that he would drop his fledgling campaign for Assembly Speaker and support Sheila Oliver is a clear sign that key North Jersey Democrats will back Stephen Sweeney for Senate President, Oliver for Speaker, and possible Democratic State Chairman Joseph Cryan for Assembly Majority ...

Frank "Pat" Dodd , above, wanted to serve as second two-year term as Senate President, but dropped out when Majority Leader Matthew Feldman had the votes.

Maybe it won't take 10 years to raise the height of the Bayonne Bridge after all.

With the aging Bayonne Bridge too low to allow the latest super-sized container ships to pass beneath it, U.S. Rep.