Along with Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, he is one of two current Senators to have returned to the Senate having previously retired.

Secaucus is also the site of New Jersey Transit's Frank R. Lautenberg Secaucus Junction train station, peculiarly named since there is no actual track junction.

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (; born January 23, 1924 ) is the senior United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party.

At age, Lautenberg is the oldest current senator.

Sen. Lautenberg ( center ) is joined by Sen. Harry Reid ( right ) and outgoing Sen. Jon Corzine ( second to left, with red tie ) to welcome the new Senator Bob Menendez ( between Corzine and Lautenberg ) on Capitol Hill.

Lautenberg is considered one of the Senate's most liberal members.

At age, Lautenberg is the oldest currently serving Senator.

In 1996, Lautenberg voted against a bill that eliminated the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the United States Information Agency, the Agency for International Development, and the International Development Cooperation Agency and allowed the President to withhold 20 % of funds appropriated to the United Nations if any agency of the organization does not implement consensus-based decision-making procedures on budgetary matters that assure that significant attention is given to the specific interests of the United States.

Lautenberg is an opponent of the Iraq War.

Lautenberg is pro-choice and has voted against banning partial-birth abortions in 1999.

Lautenberg is a strong supporter of gay marriage, and also voted to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation and to expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

Lautenberg is primary sponsor of the S. 294 " Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2007 " ( Full Text ), which would fund Amtrak for the next five years and provide opportunity for expansion.

The Tenth Amendment is also an area of concern in-that the Lautenberg Amendment assumes federal control over a state issue, in this case a domestic violence misdemeanor, turning it into a federal felony crime regarding firearm and ammunition possession.

In both the law enforcement and military professions, to Lautenberg someone is to fire a law enforcement agent or discharge a military service member due to a charge of domestic violence.

The station is named for U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, a transit advocate who worked to allocate federal funds for the project.

Following reelection, Lautenberg became a member of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism ( PCAST ), which was set up in September 1989 to review and report on aviation security policy in light of the sabotage of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988.

From his first marriage to Lois Lautenberg, which ended in divorce, Lautenberg has four children: Ellen, Nan, Lisa, and Joshua.

Brady, who had just a few days left in his appointed term, resigned on December 27, 1982, allowing Lautenberg to take office several days before the traditional swearing-in of senators, which gave him an edge in seniority over the other freshman senators.

In 2007, Lautenberg voted for an amendment to the 2007 farm bill which would have limited the amount of subsidies that a married couple could receive to $ 250, 000 ; the amendment failed.

Senator Lautenberg, who has a pro-environment voting record, co-sponsored the Consumer First Energy Act of 2008, which would have repealed $ 17 billion in tax breaks for oil companies and reinvested the $ 17 billion in renewable energy development and energy efficiency technology.

Lautenberg voted for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which contained $ 280 billion in tax breaks by expanding the earned income tax credit, child tax credit, home energy credit, and college credit, introducing a homebuyer credit and a credit for workers earning less than $ 75, 000, along with an increased ceiling for the AMT and extended tax credits to companies for renewable energy production, along with a new policy making more companies eligible for a certain tax refund.

Andrews, for example, referenced Lautenberg's own 1982 defeat of Millicent Fenwick, in which Lautenberg was alleged to have referred to Fenwick's age ( Fenwick was 72 at the time ; Lautenberg was 84 in 2008 ).

The Frank R. Lautenberg Visitor Center, which offers exhibits about the local environment, overlooks Sterling Lake.

On Wednesday, April 2, 2008, First District Representative Rob Andrews announced he would challenge Lautenberg for renomination in the Democratic primary.

It was planned that he would receive six to eight chemotherapy treatments over the course of several months, and a doctor for Lautenberg said that a full recovery was expected.

Andrews had informally announced his plan to run in the 2006 Democratic primary against Menendez, but in January 2006 announced that he would run for a ninth full term in the House and seek the Senate seat in 2008 if U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg retired.

* Pete Dawkins ( born 1938 ), former U. S. Army Brigadier General, Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes Scholar, and businessman who ran in 1988 for the United States Senate seat held by Frank Lautenberg, losing 54 %- 46 %.

Democrat Frank Lautenberg led Republican Dick Zimmer 51. 4 % to 48. 6 % ( 1, 741 votes to 1, 643 ) in Wood-Ridge in the race for the United States Senate, while Democrat Steven Rothman was ahead of Republican Vincent Micco 57. 0 % ( 1, 880 votes ) to 43. 0 % ( 1, 417 ) for the seat in the United States House of Representatives.

He showed support for passenger rail initiatives, notably his 2006 bipartisan introduction, with Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, of legislation to provide 80 percent federal matching grants to intercity rail and guarantee adequate funding for Amtrak.

In 1982 Mrs. Sigmund lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate to Frank Lautenberg.

Emerson does not address the portion of the Lautenberg Amendment involving conviction for misdemeanor domestic violence.

§ 925 ( a )( 1 )), an officer under a current protection order, or even one who has a conviction for murdering a spouse, may legally be in possession of a service firearm, but an officer convicted of one of the misdemeanor violations listed in the Lautenberg Amendment ( 18 U. S. C.

In 1988, Lautenberg was opposed by Republican Wall Street executive and former college football star Pete Dawkins, who won the 1958 Heisman Trophy for the Army Black Knights.

A little over a year after he left office, Lautenberg was called upon again to run for the Senate.

Lautenberg easily defeated Forrester in the general election, 54 % to 44 %, and took office for his fourth term in January 2003.

Upon his return to the Senate, Lautenberg was the first U. S. senator to introduce legislation calling for homeland security funds to be distributed solely on the basis of risk and vulnerability.

On June 21, 2007, Lautenberg passed Clifford Case for the most votes on the Senate floor of any United States Senator in New Jersey history.

* January 23 – Frank Lautenberg, the senior United States Senator from New Jersey

Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Sam and Mollie Lautenberg, impoverished Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia, who had arrived in the United States as infants.

Lautenberg served overseas in the United States Army Signal Corps in World War II after graduating from Nutley High School.

* United States Senator Frank Lautenberg U. S. Senate site

In 2000, Florio ran for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat that was being vacated by Frank Lautenberg.

" In 1982, she ran for a United States Senate seat, defeated conservative Jeffrey Bell in the Republican primary, but then narrowly lost the general election to liberal Democratic businessman Frank Lautenberg.

In the United States Senates introduced in 2005 by Frank Lautenberg to restrict certain activities related to canned hunting.