Frank Lautenberg: “Vulnerabilities in our system remain. And just 65 percent of cargo on international passenger flights bound for the U.S.…”

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

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.

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