Talk:Frank Lautenberg

A news item involving Frank Lautenberg was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 4 June 2013.

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POV issues

Now that he's deceased, his voting record is complete, so maybe sources could be found for more of his positions? Lines like...

"Since the advent of the late 2000s recession, Lautenberg supported a number of Democratic bills designed to deal with the resulting problems plaguing Americans."

Are just full of words sounding like they were from his campaign, and obviously filled with POV. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.2.127.21 (talk) 04:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

I believe his official senate photo should be used. The current picture is blurry and not quite as official as other senators' photos.

The new picture looks good. thanks to whomever changed it.

Accomplishments

People may wonder where I got the info on Lautenberg's accomplishment passing Case. I unforunatly don't have any link, but Harry Reid was talking about it on the Senate floor.1.21 jigwatts 16:28, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since the date this comment was posted, it has become clear that Harry Reid is a less-than-impeccable source of facts, particularly biographic facts concerning other people. Another source should be located. — Quicksilver^{T @} 14:26, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Age

With Rep. Lautenberg's age being such an apparent issue in the upcoming election, we should clear up his actual birthday. Was the man born in 1918, as is listed in the sidebar,(making him 90) or 1924, as is listed in the first paragraph of the article? --69.112.185.215 (talk) 02:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

1924. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 16:53, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

27 December 1982

Lautenberg was appointed by the Governor to his first senate seat on 27 December 1982 to fill the term of thee previous Senator who resigned. He had already been elected to the Senate, so In essnece he just begam his term a week early. This seems to be something that is not entirely uncommon. Should it be listed that Lautenberg entered the Senate in December 1982 instead of January 1983??

Special bin Laden flight passenger manifest

Frank Lautenberg's Web site still advertises his effort to get a passenger manifest for the special chartered plane taking the bin Laden family out of the U.S. shortly after the September 11th attacks.[1] One of these passengers still listed on that site was an "Omar Awad bin Laden", brother of Abdallah Osama bin Laden (fully, Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden) (founder of WAMY) and nephew of Osama bin Laden. Recently there has been a spate of media attention to Omar Osama bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden and the brother of Abdallah the founder of WAMY. What I'm wondering is, did Omar Osama lie to the U.S. government, did the Administration lie to Lautenberg, or did Lautenberg lie to us about what his relationship to Osama really was? 70.15.116.59 (talk) 00:50, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Holt an opponent?

That can't be right. Rush Holt is a Democrat; why would he mount a primary challenge to a popular Senator from his own party? I do think he's a likely successor should Lautenberg decide to retire, but it doesn't sound like that's happening in 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.109.103.194 (talk) 21:04, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, just read the United States Senate election in New Jersey, 2008 page. Hadn't realized he was so vulnerable. Still, I think the mention of Holt is premature. Why not mention his two declared Republican opponents instead of a hypothetical primary challenger? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.109.103.194 (talk) 21:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Possible inaccuracy in article intro

I take issue with this statement in the introduction to this article:

"He is the only sitting Senator to have returned to office after having left the Senate."

Isn't the same true of Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota), who resigned from office in December 1992 to take over North Dakota's other Senate seat (which he had won in a special election after not running for re-election to his own seat)? Dorgan resigned from one seat and was sworn into office for the other seat on the same day -- but didn't he technically return to office after leaving the Senate? A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 16:46, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Death hoax

The news of Sen. Lautenberg's death has been a hoax, as well as Senators Leahy and Feinstein. adamson (talk) 04:01, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

0ffice templates

Why are Lautenberg's office templates back after being deleted? Since he's dead, he no longer represents New Jersey at all. How long do you plan to keep them up there?--67.84.73.254 (talk) 14:08, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anecdote

An anecdote was added to the article today about how Lautenberg was prepared to engage in a street fight. I understand the point of the story--that Lautenberg was a strong man and "a fighter". But a barefisted street fighter? It just seems a poor example of who the man was. Richard Apple (talk) 16:57, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Such anecdotes may be well part of "la petite histoire" of who the man was, but are of no consequence for a serious Wikipedia article. It should be removed methinks as it doesn't add anything to the article. -- fdewaele, 10 September 2013, 19:10 CET.

Right. I just removed it. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

typo, missing title

The right hand column has a header for his title as Senator, followed by the years in service as Governor, but what's missing is the header for the Governor section. 69.141.44.218 (talk) 00:41, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Infobox does not indicate he served as Governor. It indicates he was Senator under two separate time frames. He was never a Governor. Jon Corzine became the NJ Senator after his first retirement.Wondering55 (talk) 01:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Lautenberg Refugee Program

No mention of the Lautenberg Amendment, named after Frank Lautenberg

See USCIS policy for green card processing for Lautenberg parolees

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