Frank Lautenberg

From the ground to the air, we need the NTSB's help in this pursuit, and Ms. Hersman was nominated to be the Chairperson of the NTSB, a very responsible position.

Senator Lautenberg talked about washing boats or modifying the behavior of recreational boaters.

We would like to stress as much action as we can possibly muster.

Scientific studies suggest that humans may play a role in the spread of white-nose syndrome.

This has been a difficult hearing because we are facing up to a problem that exists all around us.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. And thank each of you for your very depressing testimony.

Those are all of significant importance to our communities for our clean water and for economic growth for our communities.

If you do not have bees, and you do not have bats, you do not have pollination. If you do not have pollination, you do not have fruits and vegetables in America.

Without the natural order of things, the natural life cycles and many of the roles that bats and insects and other species play, if we do not have the natural order of things, there is much in disarray and it creates enormous expense and…

The threat to their population is a fungus called white-nose syndrome.

I appreciate greatly your holding this hearing about threats to animals and ecosystems across the country from changing climate, vanishing habitats and invasive species.

Does that indicate, is there any indication of poor air quality that would be consistent with that kind of growth?

Could that create air quality problems for us?

Is it possible that global warming could be a conspiracy to mislead, or could it be a hoax in any way?

We cannot measure the volume of paper that has gone into it as indicative of whether it is good or bad.

Well, they are terrible. They are terrible.

What we are saying here now is, we are saying no, no to the fact that 26 million Americans, 9 million of them children, are asthmatic.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

We need more of national leadership. I do not know why this is not seen as a crisis of major proportion.

It is an emergency condition, as I said earlier. The fire is in the cellar.

I would like to see more clean air for my asthmatic grandchild and, therefore cleaner air for all asthmatic grandchildren.

Would it not be wise to put more money immediately into transit programs to make sure that the places there are shovel and pick ready to go?

I am pleading for a message that says the transportation system is one of the critical parts of our functioning as a society.

We cannot grow money. That is the problem. And we need it desperately because of neglect.

We obviously hope that you bring, that you are the bearer of, good news.