Frank Lautenberg: “If we expect the Coast Guard to perform all we ask them to do, we need to fund them properly.”

One major threat to aviation safety is sequestration.

I'm proud to have written the only Federal law on ocean acidification--'The Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act'.

We also need to expand our research into climate change so we better understand the coming impacts, and how to mitigate them.

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