Frank Lautenberg: “I think Earth Day ought to have been perhaps called something like Good Health Day.”

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

One major threat to aviation safety is sequestration.

If we expect the Coast Guard to perform all we ask them to do, we need to fund them properly.

I am concerned that with our budget difficulties we will continue to see declining budgets for Defense Nuclear Non-Proliferation activities in favor of Weapons Activities.