Frank Lautenberg

People across this country are feeling pressures from so many points of view--job loss, threatened losses in the future as pressure exists on businesses, particularly small businesses across our country. They look to us in the Senate and…

We want to make sure that if they do, we pay all the expenses necessary for them to come back in the same condition, at least, as they left.

As President Obama noted in last night's State of the Union address, the United States will lose its competitive edge if we don't invest in our future.

I was a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey before I came to the Senate.

Coming from New Jersey, our geographic structure puts us as a major course for traffic going north and south and vice versa.

Where could we find a better investment for our future than in doing that?

The Country has arrived at a crossroads; we can move our economy forward and create jobs by strengthening investments in our roads, bridges and mass transit systems.

Incredibly, some want to solve our economic problems by cutting investments in our infrastructure. It doesn't make sense.

First, I wish to say I am so pleased to be with colleagues who are standing up for activity on behalf of the citizens, the constituents we represent, to get things done. I doubt many of us would be happy with a report card we got in either…

When our colleagues from across the aisle blocked the Omnibus appropriations bill they decided to leave our Nation less safe and less prepared to thwart the next terrorist attack. They chose to put our homeland security on autopilot for…

We are, obviously, struggling to find something that puts us in balance, a balance that will create more jobs, more opportunity, expand family incomes for middle-class people, and we do not seem to be getting there. We are engaged in the…

It has been an honor and a privilege to work with Byron Dorgan. Thoughtful, articulate, loved his job, and he gave it his best.

I want to thank the witnesses. I feel that we've got a very good team at Homeland Security and TSA and I thank them for their work.

I wish to take a couple of minutes to salute the service of one great Senator, Chris Dodd. Chris and I have served together for more than 25 years. When I arrived here--and I was not one of the youngest people to get here at that time, but…

I oppose the Coburn motion to place a 3-year moratorium on earmarks. Earmarks are a vital investment for our communities. They help build levees, dams that protect coastal towns from flooding. Look at the water shortages across the…

I wrote a law last year that requires NOAA to lead an inter-agency effort to study the effects of ocean acidification.

The Port of Newark is the lifeblood of, not just our region's economy, but also our Nation's economy.

It's essential that we make sure that our ports remain safe, secure, and strong.

This committee has the important responsibility of overseeing both the Federal Maritime Commission and NOAA.

I rise today to honor the life of SSG Ingles DosReis, who was tragically killed on August 28, 2009, while serving at Aviano Air Base in Italy. Staff Sergeant DosReis enlisted in the Air Force in February 2005, immediately following his…

I hope so. Because when we look at the number of people that are traveling by rail and see what--how inviting a target it was in other places in the world, that we can't continue to neglect--'neglect' is a strong word--to not focus more…

Mr. Chairman, I think the hostage here is, of course, the consumer. And they're paying a price...

The balance between security and privacy, it always faces you, haunts you.

The agency must remain well-resourced, as I indicated, and they must remain nimble in their response to new and emerging threats.

Vulnerabilities in our system remain. And just 65 percent of cargo on international passenger flights bound for the U.S. are screened.