Frank Lautenberg

The budget recommends slight increases for urban area security initiatives, State Homeland Security grant programs.

The pier, port, the Cape May Coast Guard Training Center is in pretty bad shape. It presents a safety hazard.

Protecting this region also protects the economy: The Port of New York and New Jersey--the largest on the east coast--handled more than $140 billion in cargo last year.

It would be just as reckless for Congress to sacrifice the public's health and safety in the name of fiscal austerity.

What is DHS doing to fully staff Newark Airport?

Having to do more with less is something we have gotten accustomed to here in these years of difficulty.

I think it's incumbent upon us to take a look at what's the proper balance between Federal and industry, in terms of maintaining equipment and preparation.

Osama bin Laden is dead--but the fight against terrorists who want to harm us is far from over.

I don't know how conscience permits one to say, well, we can't afford clean air, we can't afford clean water.

I am honored and pleased to have an opportunity to come before the Committee, and as you and other colleagues know, while I am not formerly a lawyer, there are times that I wish I was in moments like this to be able to recommend two…

I applaud President Obama's rescission on the Mexico City policy, known as the Global Gag Rule.

Cuts to these two programs alone would mean approximately $60 million in Homeland Security support would vanish in my State of New Jersey.

They deserve better. I can tell you that.

The Coast Guard represents the United States before the International Maritime Organization in our efforts to prevent and respond to acts of piracy.

If we really want to reduce the tax burden on hard-working Americans, we ought to make the polluting industries pay to clean up the messes they make.

According to the FBI, New Jersey is home for the most at-risk terrorist attack in the United States.

So you can encourage them to participate more actively in the prevention side.

The recent report on the Coast Guard's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill found that the Coast Guard's ability to respond to environmental disasters had 'atrophied over the past decade.'

Madam Secretary, thank you for the reminder that things done through diplomatic channels might substitute for, in some cases, military action, and that's a very important reminder, that we can save lots of lives, lots of grief and lots of…

I wonder whether there is a point in time or a point in action when the debate over the no-fly zone and its complications might be accelerated, if they continue with their murderous attack on civilians using aircraft.

I think it's well-known that in all of my years in the U.S. Senate, the Coast Guard has been a principal focus of my views about what we ought to do to take care of our security.

While the Republicans want to make unreasonable cuts to Government, the fact of the matter is when it hits people's lives, it makes a huge difference.

I would hope that you wouldn't keep using a reference to 'as old as World War II.'

The true measure of a democracy is its dispensation of justice.

It is irresponsible to take vital resources away from our most threatened area.