Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (left) and Robert Menendez, Democrats of New Jersey, toured areas ravaged by the storm spawned by Hurricane Sandy with President Obama on Wednesday. They asked the president to increase the federal share of disaster relief, citing New Jersey’s continuing costs from Hurricane Irene last year. (Associated Press)
Sens. Frank R. Lautenberg (left) and Robert Menendez, Democrats of New Jersey, toured areas ravaged by the storm spawned by Hurricane Sandy with President Obama on Wednesday. They asked the president to increase the federal share of disaster relief, citing New Jersey’s continuing costs from Hurricane Irene last year. (Associated Press)
Rep. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, accompanied by Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey democrat, talks about the Palestinian effort to seek U.N. recognition of statehood, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., second from right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, after the Senate voted down a bill to aid people who got sick after exposure to dust from the World Trade Center's collapse in the Sept. 11 attack. From left are, Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., Schumer. and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, to discuss proposals to continue the Bush era tax cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
