Frank Lautenberg: “There's a lot of money that the Port Authority was originally going to put into the tunnel, which was pulled back.”

If we expect the Coast Guard to perform all we ask them to do, we need to fund them properly.

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

Thank you for scheduling this hearing to consider the re-nomination of Dr. Allison Macfarlane to be Chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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.