RIP Sen. Frank Lautenberg

Sen. Frank Lautenberg dead at 89

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), the last World War II veteran in the Senate and the chamber’s oldest member, died Monday morning. He was 89.

2009:  Senate Hearing On Climate Bill Heats Up : NPR

All of which led one exasperated committee member, New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, to try to shift the debate away from dollars and cents and to the subject of a warming climate. "America," he intoned, "wake up, wake up; your kids are in danger."