Frank Lautenberg: “Tell the states that, we're about to render penalties if you don't put action into force.”

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.

Some will say now isn't the time to make public investments. Some will say we can't afford it.

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

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.