Frank Lautenberg: “We need to look beyond legal distinctions or classes of harms to look at the erosion of trust in the ecosystem.”

I remain concerned about the Department's fiscal year 2014 budget proposal to once again attempt to consolidate preparedness grants into one national program.

We also need to expand our research into climate change so we better understand the coming impacts, and how to mitigate them.

I am deeply troubled with this budget. The Coast Guard does not have adequate funding to do everything we expect them to do.

I want to hear feelings of improvement, of moving forward.