Frank Lautenberg: “Safety is the most important issue and there will be no compromise on safety.”

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

Efforts to consolidate these grants could shift critical grant funds away from the areas most at-risk for a terror attack, like my State of New Jersey.

Both agencies were crucial in helping New Jersey respond to and recover from Superstorm Sandy, and Congress must support them so that we are better prepared for future storms.

It is time that we give them the resources they need to keep us safe.