Frank Lautenberg: “What steps can you suggest to us here now that will help identify the problems and get them fully resolved?”

Both agencies were crucial in helping New Jersey respond to and recover from Superstorm Sandy, and Congress must support them so that we are better prepared for future storms.

We simply can't afford to ignore the lessons from past accidents and crashes.

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.

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