Frank Lautenberg: “We need to shift our priorities. We need both . . . highways and passenger rail.”

With my State's continued challenges and stubbornly high foreclosure rates, I call on the Treasury Department to redouble its efforts to ensure that New Jersey homeowners receive the help they need.

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

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.

Some will say now isn't the time to make public investments. Some will say we can't afford it.