Frank Lautenberg: “We have to have cops on the beat there because we know that there is trouble on these streets.”

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

Republicans in the Congress continue to call for even deeper budget cuts--despite clear evidence that the austerity agenda they have championed has slowed the pace of job growth and needlessly increased the suffering of children, seniors…

The IRS must be funded at a level that enables it to provide necessary taxpayer assistance and to enforce the laws.

Do you consider IRS's current strategy for dealing with identity theft and refund fraud to be adequate? No.