Frank Lautenberg Quotes

[Consequently, there is plenty of media coverage on official complaints that services have not been delivered fast enough, that rescue efforts have been too slow, and that there have been competing agendas.] We are watching this devastation unfold on our televisions for days and you have to ask: where is the federal government? ... We should have had a significant amount of troops and supplies there on the ground Monday.

- Frank Lautenberg

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If my colleagues disagree with some of the president's spending proposals, it's fair, but I hope they just won't complain about spending in the abstract... I would urge them to be specific. Which of the president's initiatives do you want to block? Education, health care, child care, the tax cuts for families with kids in day care? - Frank Lautenberg

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them. - Frank Lautenberg

I don't think there is any doubt he'll be confirmed. The question is how many Democrats vote for him. - Frank Lautenberg