
Frank Pallone, Jr.
Democrat · NJ-6 · U.S. House
Bio
Frank Joseph Pallone Jr. is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 6th congressional district since 1988. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1988 to 1993, is in the north-central part of the state and includes New Brunswick, Woodbridge Township, Perth Amboy, Sayreville, Edison, Piscataway and Asbury Park. Pallone is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 39.6 years
- First took office
- 1987 (20 terms)
- Seniority
- 5 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Long Branch, NJ · 732-571-1140
- New Brunswick, NJ · 732-249-8892
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.6M – $6.2M
- Liabilities
- $380k – $850k
- Net worth
- $1.8M – $5.8M
- Since 2019
- +$914k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 70 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Frank Pallone, Jr.'s voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Frank Pallone, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'s 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- US House Democrat asks Musk to answer for polluting xAI data centers
July 29 : U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on Wednesday demanded documents and answers from Elon Musk about the environmental and public health impacts of his xAI Colossus data center operations i…
CNA · July 29, 2026
The Bill That Pits House Against Senate Against Big TechOn Monday night, the House passed a weaker version of the Senate’s Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, aimed at regulating the tech industry and protecting children online. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on whom you ask. House leaders have taken fou…
The New Republic · June 30, 2026
While Kicking Millions Off Healthcare, GOP Holds 'Sham Hearing' on Medicaid FraudCongressional Democrats and healthcare justice advocates on Thursday accused Republicans of trying to divert attention away from their destructive cuts to Medicaid—and the resulting large-scale loss of insurance coverage—by convening a hearing on purportedly …
Common Dreams · June 25, 2026
GOP May Kick 300,000 More Off Healthcare to Help Find $200 Billion for Trump's Iran War"Republicans won't think twice about *literally* sacrificing you to get their way."That's how Democrats on the US House Ways and Means Committee responded to Axios' Monday reporting on congressional Republicans considering more healthcare cuts to help fulfill…
Common Dreams · March 30, 2026
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