Frank Lautenberg: “It's, again, a kind of a fantasy that persists around here that somehow or other things will get better if we do…”

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

I have long been concerned with the understaffing of air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty and I am concerned the sequestration-imposed air traffic controller furloughs will disproportionately impact this airport.

Although we have had a complete trade ban on Iran since 1995, a significant loophole existed that allowed the foreign subsidiaries of American companies to do business with Iran.

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