VA clinic in New Jersey renamed to honor Anthony Gallopo
H.R. 6007 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Newton, New Jersey, as the "Anthony 'Tony' J. Gallopo VA Clinic". · Filed by Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) · 11 cosponsors · Introduced Nov 10, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill renames a Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Newton, New Jersey, after Anthony 'Tony' J. Gallopo. The clinic will henceforth be officially known as the 'Anthony Tony J. Gallopo VA Clinic,' and all federal references to it will use the new name.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole function is to rename an existing VA clinic after an individual. It contains no appropriations, policy changes, or operational directives—only a designation and a directive that federal records reflect the new name.
Who it affects
This is a commemorative naming with no operational or financial impact on veterans or the public. Naming a VA facility after a person (presumed to be a veteran or community figure) honors service and may boost morale or community connection to the facility, but imposes no cost or restriction on citizens.
Named in the bill
Department of Veterans Affairs, Newton, New Jersey, Anthony 'Tony' J. Gallopo
Where it stands
11 cosponsors: 8 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
- Nov 10, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Nov 10, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4472)”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. Those filings disclosed $210,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 1 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Josh Gottheimer, the sponsor, reported $1,000,800 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Paychex, Inc. — $210,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jan 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,234 characters) on Jul 16, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Dec 2025. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jan 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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