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Hearing Can't Mask Absence of Leadership and Competence That Has Left 300,000 New Jerseyans Without Health Insurance

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded more than $8 million in federal funds to seven New Jersey Research institutions and one provider of neighborhood-based health care to conduct health care research and expand community-based care in New Jersey.

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch) will keep his powerful Health Subcommittee chairmanship

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-Long Branch) will remain as the chairman of House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health after an agreement announced today by Henry Waxman and John Dingell.  Dingell had hinted that he might challenge Pallone for the powerful subcommittee post after losing the full committee chairmanship to Waxman last month.

ROBERTS/CONAWAY BILL REQUIRING INSURERS
COVER KIDS' HEARING AIDS HEADS TO GOVERNOR
'Grace's Law' Would Ensure Coverage for Children Below Age 16

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assembly Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Jr. and Assemblyman Herb Conaway, M.D. sponsored to require health insurance plans to provide coverage of medical expenses incurred for hearing aids for children 15-years-old and younger was today passed by the Assembly and sent to the Governor's desk.

VITALE, GREENWALD: NEW REFORMS ALREADY WORKING
TO DECREASE NUMBER OF KIDS WITHOUT HEALTH COVERAGE

(TRENTON) - Responding to a recent study that reported more than a quarter-million New Jersey children lack health coverage, Senator Joseph Vitale and Assemblyman Louis Greenwald noted that recent reforms to the NJ FamilyCare program already are cutting the number of uninsured kids in the state.

IMPACT OF ECONOMIC MELTDOWN ON SOCIAL SERVICES TO BE FOCUS OF MONDAY ASSEMBLY JOINT HEARING
Assembly Health and Senior Services and Human Services Panels to Examine How Crisis Could Affect Seniors and Low Income Residents

Measuring the potential impact the national economic crisis could have on services the state's most vulnerable residents rely on will be the focus of a Monday joint meeting of the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee and Assembly Human Services

WISNIEWSKI BILL TO IMPROVE ROADWAY WORKER, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ADVANCES

Measure Would Prohibit Manufacture, Sale, or Use of Reflective Roadway Glass Beads with High Arsenic Content

(TRENTON) - Legislation Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski sponsored to prohibit the use of reflective glass beads with high arsenic content in state roadway projects was released today by the Assembly Transportation, Public Works, and Independent Authorities Committee.