Frank Pallone, Jr.

Democrat · NJ-6 · U.S. House

On the ballot in 2026

NJ-6 — U.S. House

Safe D 97%

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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.

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Record of service

In office: 39.7 years
First took office: 1987 (20 terms)
Seniority: 5 of 439 by time served
Age: 74

District offices

Long Branch, NJ · 732-571-1140
New Brunswick, NJ · 732-249-8892

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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

2019

$2.9M

2020

$2.8M

2021

$3.4M

2022

$2.5M

2023

$3.8M

2024

$3.8M

2025

$3.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

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

29 Morrell St., Long Branch, NJ (Half Interest)$500k – $1.0M

F&J Pallone Realty, LLC - 517 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ (Half Interest)$500k – $1.0M

F&J Pallone Realty, LLC - 518 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ (Half Interest)$500k – $1.0M

F&J Pallone Realty, LLC - 516 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ (Half Interest)$250k – $500k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ ALLIANZ LIFE INS CO NORTH AMER INS PRODS INDEX ADVANTAGE VAR A$250k – $500k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ U.S. Strategic Equity Fund Class S (RSESX)$100k – $250k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Global Equity Fund Class S (RGESX)$50k – $100k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Multi-Asset Growth Strategy Fund - Class S (RMGSX)$50k – $100k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Opportunistic Credit Fund Class S (RGCSX)$50k – $100k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Strategic Bond Fund Class S (RFCTX)$50k – $100k

Congressional Federal Credit Union$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 1 ⇒ Mondelez International, Inc. - Class A (MDLZ)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 1 ⇒ Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Emerging Markets Fund Class S (REMSX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Global Infrastructure Fund Class S (RGISX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ International Developed Markets Fund Class S (RINTX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. (EL)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ MFS Value Fund - Class I (MEIIX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ NYLI Winslow Large Cap Growth Fund Class I (MLAIX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Overseas Stock Fund (TROSX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ Unilever PLC (UL)$15k – $50k

SP None Tax-Deferred WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ Walt Disney Company (DIS)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: IRA ⇒ Washington Mutual Investors Fund Cl F-2 Shs (WMFFX)$15k – $50k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: ROTH IRA ⇒ Franklin Dynatech Fund Class A (FKDNX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo Bank - Checking Account$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS ⇒ Wells Fargo Bank South Central N.A.$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 1 ⇒ The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC)$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 1 ⇒ Wells Fargo Bank N.A.$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fd - FST Shares $1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 3 ⇒ Long Duration Bond Fund Class S (RMHSX)$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta International Equity ETF (GSI$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF (GS$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ Invesco Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy N$1k – $15k

WELLS FARGO ADVISORS: GST TRUST 2 ⇒ iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (USHY)$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.64

Healthcare

D+0.64

Immigration & Border

D+0.80

Guns

D+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.82

Environment & Energy

D+0.81

Crime & Policing

D+0.52

Defense & Veterans

D+0.37

Economy & Labor

D+0.63

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.14

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.89

Education

D+0.74

Government & Democracy

D+0.87

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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.

Democratic Party

94%Closest

Green Party

89%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

85%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

31%

On the political map

Frank Pallone, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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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 · 95 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and CommerceRanking Membercenter · 54 members

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.

Most aligned

Least aligned

Recent notable votes

YEA

Retire through Ownership Act

2026-09-16 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Taxes & Fiscal

NAY

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".

2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy

YEA

Water Resources Development Act of 2026

2026-09-16 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor

YEA

Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025

2026-09-15 · Passed · Environment & Energy, Economy & Labor

YEA

GUARD Act

2026-09-15 · Passed · Crime & Policing, Economy & Labor

YEA

Whistleblower Protection Act of 2025

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy

NAY

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 9576) to establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 10326) to enhance information-sharing capabilities between Federal law enforcement and State agencies to detect, investigate, and prosecute fraud in certain Federal programs, and to protect individual privacy; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 210) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth; Notice of Decision''; providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 213) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the ‘‘California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision''; and providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the bill (H.R. 5334) to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow early childhood educators to take the educator expense deduction, and for other purposes.

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

YEA

Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act

2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy

NAY

2026-09-15 · Passed · Government & Democracy, Crime & Policing, Environment & Energy, Taxes & Fiscal, Education

YEA

Fostering the Use of Technology to Uphold Regulatory Effectiveness in Supervision Act

2026-09-15 · Passed · Economy & Labor, Government & Democracy

YEA

Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.

2026-09-15 · Passed · Foreign Policy & Trade, Defense & Veterans, Government & Democracy

YEA

Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2026

2026-09-14 · Passed · Environment & Energy

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Frank Pallone, Jr.

NJ-6 — U.S. House

Bio

Record of service

Reported net worth

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

Issue profile

How they score against the parties

On the political map

Do you vote like Jr.?

Caucuses & committees

Caucuses

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Most aligned

Least aligned

Recent notable votes

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