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Popularity: 2 Vote:	Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
Popularity: 1 Vote:	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.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	I had hoped to hear the President tonight tell the Congress and the American people exactly how he plans to tackle some of the important issues facing this country, unfortunately I did not.
Popularity: -3 Vote:	I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.
Popularity: 0 Vote:	One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	President Bush uses a lot of broad language and imagery when he speaks. It makes him sound determined and decisive, but when you get behind that facade and look at the actions, you see flip-flop. Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush knows exactly what flip-flopping is. It takes one to know one.
Popularity: -2 Vote:	So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.
Popularity: -1 Vote:	The other side cannot beat us with the strength of their ideas. They are resorting to the same tactics they used against Senator Daschle--personal attacks on family members and attacks on character. This is shameless behavior.
Popularity: 2 Vote:	The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

Biography

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (born January 23, 1924) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a United States Senator from New Jersey serving from 1983 to 2001 and since 2003.

The son of poor but hard-working Polish and Russian immigrants, Lautenberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey and served in the United States Army in World War II after graduating high school. Then, financed by the GI Bill, he attended and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in economics in 1949. He co-founded the successful Automatic Data Processing Company (ADP) and was its president. He was commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1978 to 1982.

In 1982 he received the Democratic nomination for a US senate seat from New Jersey for that year's election. At the time the seat was occupied by Democrat Harrison Williams who resigned in 1982 after being implicated in the Abscam scandal.

Lautenberg won the election, defeating popular Republican congresswoman Millicent Fenwick. He was reelected in 1988 and again in the Republican landslide year of 1994. He announced his retirement in 2000, and his fellow Democrat and businessman, Jon Corzine, was elected to replace him. Lautenberg unexpectedly returned to politics in 2002, when the other New Jersey senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli, withdrew his candidacy for reelection because of corruption charges, and Lautenberg was drafted to take his place despite his advanced age. It was rumored, however, that Lautenberg was the second choice to run, the first choice being former Senator Bill Bradley, who turned it down. The New Jersey Republican Party challenged the replacement of Torricelli's name on the ballot with Lautenberg's, arguing that it came too late according to state election laws. The ballot name change was upheld by the New Jersey State Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up case. Lautenberg won the election, thus becoming one of very few people in recent times to return to the Senate after leaving it.

Lautenberg is well-known as a liberal. He is pro-choice, supports gun control, has introduced many bills increasing penalties for carjacking and car theft, and has criticized the Bush administration on national security issues. He also is known for authoring the Ryan White Act which provides services to AIDS patients.

In 2005, he became a leading voice within the Senate in calling for an investigation into the developing Bush administration payment of columnists scandal. (http://lautenberg.senate.gov/~lautenberg/press/2003/01/2005210903.html)