Frank Lautenberg: “These teams are vital. They protect sensitive coastal areas from terrorists and can be rapidly deployed by air, sea or…”

Treasury and the IRS are vital to America's future prosperity.

I thank the chairman for making this clarification. I agree completely with my colleagues concerning the need for section 3004. Could the language in section 3004 about inclusion of specific project recommendations and feasibility studies…

It is time that we give them the resources they need to keep us safe.

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.