Frank Lautenberg: “It's irritating the public to the point, I think, that you're going to have very tough responses to these fees being…”

We need to look beyond legal distinctions or classes of harms to look at the erosion of trust in the ecosystem.

Thank you for scheduling this hearing to consider the re-nomination of Dr. Allison Macfarlane to be Chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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…

I strongly supported President Obama's rescission of the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, upon taking office.