Frank Lautenberg: “It makes our job much, much harder.”

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

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

We need to look beyond legal distinctions or classes of harms to look at the erosion of trust in the ecosystem.

The requested 6 percent cut to FinCEN is a concern.