New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Frank Lautenberg is joining forces with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida. They’ve introduced a bill that would place reasonable and affordable caps on health insurance enrollment fees, deductibles, and pharmacy co-payments for military retirees enrolled in the Department of Defense’s TRICARE system.
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), U.S. Representative Steve Rothman (D-NJ), and members of the New Jersey state legislature today joined together at the George Washington Bridge to urge the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to suspend scheduled toll hikes until an audit is completed and reforms are put in place.
It's become the political equivalent of a no-holds-barred cage match. And it shows no signs of ending. Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the state's senior Democratic U.S. Senator Frank
New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator voted last to advance legislation that would ensure millionaires and billionaires don't pay a lower tax rate than middle class American families, but Republican Senators blocked action on the “Buffett Rule.” U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) says the GOP is protecting lucrative tax loopholes for the wealthiest Americans.
A bipartisan coalition of 23 Senators is calling on leaders from the Senate Appropriations Committee to extend the Lautenberg Amendment, which protects certain religious minorities fleeing persecution. The call is part of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill they are crafting.
Governor Christie was on the attack at his latest town hall in Ocean County, blasting a U.S. Senator for refusing to work towards bipartisanship.
Republican Governor Chris Christie’s controversial plan to fold Rutgers-Camden into Rowan University has caught the attention of New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Frank Lautenberg (D) who has fired off a letter to President Barack Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan asking him to examine the plan. State Senate President Steve Sweeney (D), who is rumored to be mulling a run against Lautenberg in 2014 has now entered the fray.
