Frank Lautenberg

Sen. Frank Lautenberg is lobbying for Rutgers University to maintain its presence in Camden.

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.

New Jersey's U.S. senators say funding to complete the deepening of waterways shared by New York and New Jersey ports is a step closer to reality.

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 Lautenberg, won't stop fighting. They've traded insults over everything from the cancellation of a tunnel project between New Jersey and New York to Christie's plan for a major university consolidation

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

Last week, the U.S. Senate passed the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” a transportation bill that’s expected to create or maintain 2.8 million jobs nationwide.

Garden State voters like Chris Christie. Democrats have been blasting the Governor's 10% income tax cut plan, but it might not be resonating with residents because they like that too.