Frank Lautenberg: “I'm comforted by that.”

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

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

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

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