Frank Lautenberg: “Together, these standards will prevent asthma attacks, heart attacks, respiratory diseases, and even premature deaths.”

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

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.

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