We as taxpayers have put in well over $12 to $15 billion of investment in a repository for high-level nuclear waste... if we're ever to recoup that investment in the future... then we're going to need some money to reopen Yucca Mountain.

The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.

Whatever solutions there are for flood control need to be bipartisan.

There have been some management issues with Amtrak, but I think they have cleaned up their act.

Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair's clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair's visibility - as a matter of fact, Essex County's visibility.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.