Frank Lautenberg: “There are all kinds of reasons to make the Merchant Marine Academy as fine an educational facility as we can have...”

I believe it is time for this subcommittee and others to give serious thought to the way the IRS is funded.

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

The requested 6 percent cut to FinCEN is a concern.

Republicans in the Congress continue to call for even deeper budget cuts--despite clear evidence that the austerity agenda they have championed has slowed the pace of job growth and needlessly increased the suffering of children, seniors…