Frank Lautenberg: “I look forward to your guidance and leadership here.”

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

I believe it is time for this subcommittee and others to give serious thought to the way the IRS is funded.

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

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