Frank 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. 

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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.

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity has announced it will stop funding breast cancer screening at Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. Officials cite ongoing investigations into Planned Parenthood as the reason.

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"When it costs $12 to drive your car across a bridge in America, something is wrong," says U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) who is joining forces with U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R- NY) today in announcing the Commuter Protection Act to restore the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) ability to determine whether toll hikes are fair to drivers and to give the Department authority to prescribe more reasonable tolls.

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U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) will be in Wayne, New Jersey to announce millions in federal disaster relief funding for voluntary home buyouts in Passaic County and throughout New Jersey in the wake of devastation from Hurricane Irene. Funding will be announced for municipalities in Passaic, Morris, Essex, Somerset and Middlesex counties.

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A U.S. senator from New Jersey is urging the Portuguese government to return an American fugitive who escaped from a state prison in 1970 and spent more than 40 years on the lam before being captured in September in Portugal.

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The Occupy Wall Street movement says it speak for the 99% and against the 1% richest in the country.  So who in Congress belongs to the 1% club?  Take a look, you might be surprised. 

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Congressman Frank Pallone and Senator Frank Lautenberg are taking aim at the twin killers of babies...still births and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

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The campaigns of U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Rep. Rush Holt have paid $39,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former election worker who was fired for hiring blacks to campaign in predominantly white neighborhoods.

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