Frank Lautenberg

I don't mean to interrupt. How about the restrictions on general aviation? You know, you can't come in here without a rigmarole of some significance to get in.

I want you to keep flying, flying high, fly on time, fly, continue the safety, safe operating record that this country of ours has had.

The administration has requested $250 million each for port security grants and for rail security grants which represents a 38 percent cut from last year's funding.

I strongly support the idea that homeland security grants must be allocated in a manner and form by risk.

I will not ask you to contradict what's being done, but I would bring the fact that we have this vulnerability.

Will it reach last year's--the current budget's--level?

Why are we seeing this kind of a reduction?

What is ICE doing to help stop Iran from having those materials available to it?

My State, the State of New Jersey, has a high degree of vulnerability.

If we can't count on the Navy to jump in here at times, or other branches of the military to protect our fleets of marine cargo, then I think we're suffering from a delusion.

The FBI has declared that that's the most dangerous 2-mile target in the country for a terrorist attack.

I'm comforted by that.

I don't understand why such a distinguished heroic figure like General Petraeus says that the private sector ought to invest more in its own security.

We look at them with a degree of deep concern.

We cannot be dissuaded from our mission that is to protect the well-being of our families.

It formally declared that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and a threat to the public's health and welfare.

Sometimes these egregious claims that are made just challenge logic and thought.

So we have things that we have to do to catch up with our allowable activities.

I get compliments regularly for the work that I do to protect the environment and the health of children.

Now we have to dig our way out of the hole that was created by that.

We continue with this ping-pong game with one side saying listen, we have got to protect the health and well-being of our families.

I close, Madam Chairman, with congratulations to the Attorney General for filling the positions that he has with highly capable people.

It is 10 years later. The loophole still exists. Do you think it is time for Congress to try again to get this sensible legislation in place?

Doesn't it strike you as kind of an anomaly in our pursuit of law and justice, protecting our citizens, that this is kind of a foolish way to turn our back on these things?

The last question, Mr. Holder, in the last administration, the COPS program was nearly decimated with serious cuts in funding.