Frank Lautenberg: “We need to fund the highway trust fund to the highest levels, restore faith, hope and accountability to the program.”

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

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.

A 2010 Wall Street Journal series on online privacy illustrated the extent to which individuals are being tracked and how the invasive practice can cause real harm.

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