Frank Lautenberg: “The President set the goal for America to be the top tourist destination in the world, and thanks to the Travel…”

I am honored to serve as chairman of this subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over crucial Federal programs that support our economy.

We also need to expand our research into climate change so we better understand the coming impacts, and how to mitigate them.

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

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