Frank Lautenberg: “Clean air is essential to that well-being. When the air is dirty, health care costs climb and productivity plunges.”

We must meet this challenge with our full commitment.

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.

One major threat to aviation safety is sequestration.

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