Frank Lautenberg

That is a terrific target. We hope you don't miss it.

This wasn't induced by the legislation that was passed in these last couple of years.

I think Earth Day ought to have been perhaps called something like Good Health Day.

I see this as the perhaps most important problem that mankind faces, and that is protecting an environment.

We have a war on our hands that we must win.

I believe that climate change is something compared to a plague, perhaps the 11th plague.

In my Amtrak bill, which was signed last year, we required that the Northeast Corridor be brought into a state of good repair by 2018.

I can assure you that resolving the contract issues with the air traffic controllers is a top priority for this Administration.

Nothing can be as ready to go as this tunnel project is.

The project will take 22,000 cars off the road each day, create 6,000 construction jobs each year for 10 years.

I urge you to do what you can to remind the Secretary, in case he did not hear what I had to say these last few days to go ahead and take out the starter's gun and shoot it off and let us go.

In my State of New Jersey, we are looking to break ground on the largest mass transit project in the country, a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.

The regulations were there to prevent that from happening before the crisis began developing?

So FHA essentially writes off the loss from what may have been a subprime loan, and that's FHA's responsibility, is it not?

Congress and the administration must continue to take steps to stop the foreclosure crisis.

A home is more than just a building. It is a place of safety from the elements.

In the wake of the credit crisis, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency--along with housing and finance agencies around the country--is having trouble finding agencies that will insure loans for homes designated for low-income…

Because it's a sad situation to see people who need housing and empty houses and not to be able to at least get them out of the weather and keep them whole for a while.

In these tough times, we need to make sure FHA has the funding and staff to do its job.

The FHA currently funds its own operations through homeowner fees.

The agency has become a life raft in a sea of debt for current homeowners looking to refinance into a fixed-rate mortgage.

Will FHA consider changing its policy so it can start insuring loans on properties that are restricted for low- and moderate-income homeowners?

Now I am one of the few left here who served in World War II. I served in Europe during the war.

I left this committee in 2001. I thought I was going to do something else, but nothing pulled at my conscience more than the fact that I left the Senate, and the year 2001 we had the terrible calamity of 9/11.

Your continued commitment of concern for those who are innocent victims of war and terror is kind of a benchmark for all of us