U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) cruised past Republican challenger Dick Zimmer Tuesday night, winning a record fifth term in office. With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, Lautenberg won 55 ...

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) – It’s only fitting that a man remembered as Mr. Transportation took his final trip to Washington aboard an Amtrak train Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey was ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran to serve in the U.S. Senate, was buried Friday with military honors in a rain-drenched ceremony at Arlington National ...

Industry groups once derided former Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-N.J.) perennial proposals to tighten the nation’s regulation of toxic chemicals, but now they are poised to invoke the late senator’s ...

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) died Monday. He was 89, and Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Chris Christie announced an October special election to replace him. From Lautenberg's obituary: Lautenberg also used ...

The late House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., famously said, “All politics is local.” In New Jersey, however, all politics is personal. Consider the relationship that developed between ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood with the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg in 2012. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles ...

Frank Lautenberg had not cast a vote in nearly two months when aides pushed his wheelchair onto the floor of the U.S. Senate in mid-April. Lautenberg, then 89, was clearly in ill health. On Capitol ...

The family of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Monday endorsed Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D) in the New Jersey Senate race and criticized front-runner Cory Booker (D) as a glory-seeking “show ...

On the third-to-last day that Senator Frank Lautenberg ever voted in the Senate, he joined with 53 of his colleagues to support a compromise on new gun regulations. His vote wasn't enough. Now, ...