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.

Lautenberg is a proponent of the Container Security Initiative which would screen cargo containers bound for the United States for radiological contents.

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.

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.

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

Lautenberg defeated Andrews 59 % to 35 % in the June 3 primary, and defeated former Congressman Dick Zimmer in the general election 56 % to 42 %.

" 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.

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.

He decided to challenge incumbent U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg in the 2008 Democratic primary in New Jersey.

In the general election on November 4, 2008 he faced the Democratic primary winner, incumbent U. S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

* Frank Lautenberg, BS 1949, U. S. Senator from New Jersey

U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg currently resides in the borough.

* 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 %.

In 2000, when Democratic U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg announced his retirement, Whitman seriously considered being a candidate, but ultimately decided against running.

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

§ 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.

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.

" According to a Foreign Policy In Focus article, Lautenberg defended his remarks due to the UAE's refusal to support U. S. policy toward Israel and Iran.

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Andrews was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U. S. Senate election, being defeated by incumbent U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg.

Shortly thereafter, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Democratic Party could legally replace Torricelli's name on the ballot with that of former U. S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, ironically a longtime Torricelli nemesis, with whom he had often publicly feuded.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced similar legislation, the " Gun Show Background Check Act of 2009 "(), in the U. S. Senate.

Forrester was defeated by his two Democratic opponents, Frank Lautenberg and then-U. S.

In 1999, a U. S. District Court judge ruled that the Lautenberg Amendment, 18 U. S. C.

The Responsible Education About Life Act was introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg ( D-NJ ) and Representatives Barbara Lee ( D-CA ) and Christopher Shays ( R-CT ) to support age-appropriate sexual education.

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 2007, Lautenberg proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007, designed to deny weapons purchases by persons that the government has placed on the terrorist watchlist.

Lautenberg was not in the Senate at the time of the original Patriot Act in 2001 ; when the 2005 reauthorization came to the Senate floor, Lautenberg voted against cloture but voted in favor of accepting the conference report.

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 did, however, vote in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

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.

Senators Frank Lautenberg, Bob Menendez, and Andrews were the only members of the New Jersey Democratic Congressional Delegation to vote for the Military Commissions Act of 2006.

Senator Frank Lautenberg ( D-NJ ) wrote the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984.