Question: The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, is an amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, the act is often referred to as "the Lautenberg Amendment" after its sponsor, Senator Frank Lautenberg, was a United States Senator, and member of the Democratic Party, from which state?
Context: William J. Pascrell III is an American lobbyist with the Princeton Public Affairs Group, and has been the Passaic County Counsel.  He has worked for United States Senator and Governor Jon Corzine, United States Senator Frank Lautenberg, United State Senator Robert Menendez, Congressman Robert Roe, Herb Klein and Albio Sires as well as Governor James E. McGreevey.  Pascrell earned an Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Talk Program Series for "The Battling Bills," a program he created jointly with Bill Palatucci.  Pascrell graduated from Rutgers University and the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and earned a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University.  He is the son of Congressmen Bill Pascrell. The H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004 was a part of Title IV of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (sometimes also called the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2005) in the United States that focused on changes to regulations governing H-1B visas.  It was a successor to previous legislative changes affecting the H-1B, namely: the Immigration Act of 1990, American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998, and the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (AC21) of 2000.  The Consolidated Appropriations Act was signed by George W. Bush, then President of the United States, in early December 2004. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017 ( , ), also known as the 2017 omnibus spending bill, is the United States appropriations legislation passed during the 115th Congress which provides spending permission to a number of federal agencies for the fiscal year of 2017.  The bill authorizes $1.1 trillion in spending. Frank Raleigh Lautenberg ( ; January 23, 1924 June 3, 2013) was a United States Senator from New Jersey and a member of the Democratic Party.  He was originally from Paterson, New Jersey. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 ( , nicknamed the Cromnibus) is an omnibus spending bill, a bill that packages several appropriation bills together in one larger bill.  The 113th United States Congress failed to pass any of the twelve regular appropriations bills prior to the beginning of Fiscal Year 2014.  The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 temporarily funded the government from the October 1, 2013 beginning of the 2014 fiscal year to January 15, 2014.  A second continuing resolution extended funding until January 18, 2014, allowing time for the House and the Senate to vote on this bill. Dairy Market Loss Assistance (DMLA) was a series of programs of the United States Department of Agriculture to make emergency direct-payment programs for dairy farmers, in response to volatile farm milk prices.  It was funded over three consecutive years (FY1999-2001) by three separate emergency supplemental appropriations measures.  The primary purpose of these payments was to supplement dairy farmer income.  Dairy farmers received supplemental payments of $200 million provided by the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (P.L. 105-277) in DMLA-I; $125 million from the FY2000 agriculture appropriations act (P.L. 106-78) in DMLA-II; and $675 million in emergency provisions in the FY2001 agriculture appropriations act (P.L. 106-387) in DMLA-III. The Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban, often called "the Lautenberg Amendment" ("Gun Ban for Individuals Convicted of a Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence", Pub.L.  104–208 , ), is an amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1997, enacted by the 104th United States Congress in 1996, which bans access to firearms by people convicted of crimes of domestic violence.  The act is often referred to as "the Lautenberg Amendment" after its sponsor, Senator Frank Lautenberg (D - NJ). The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010 is the name of a United States appropriations bill created in the conference report for , originally the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2010.  The bill, signed into law on December 16, 2009, combined six of the seven fiscal year 2010 appropriations bills that were still pending before Congress near the end of 2009. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (CAA) was an omnibus appropriation legislation consisting of eleven Divisions, enacted on December 8, 2004 as H.R. 4818 by President Bush and assigned Public Law No. 108-447, during the 108th United States Congress, approving appropriations of $388 billion for eleven departments including "foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes."  Eager to adjourn for the year, the bill, drafted by the House in a late night session on Friday, November 19, 2004, became known for its last-minute budgeting.  On Saturday, November 20, in order to put the FY 2005 (October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005) appropriations bill to a close, the Senate had to quickly review the 3,016-page appropriation bill containing "complex and controversial matters" which included nine bills, only two of which had been debated in the Senate and a conference report with 32 unrelated provisions that the Senate had never considered.  The bill was passed by the House in an emergency session on Saturday, November 20, even though the members were not aware of the specific wording of the bill.  CAA consisting of eleven Divisions H.R. 4818, approved December 8, was assigned Public Law No. 108-447. The L-1 Visa Reform Act of 2004, referred to more briefly as the L-1 Reform Act, was a part of Title IV of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (sometimes also called the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2005) in the United States that focused on changes to regulations governing L-1 visas.  The Consolidated Appropriations Act was signed by George W. Bush, then President of the United States, in early December 2004.  Title IV of the Consolidated Appropriations Act also included the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004, that focused on H-1B visas.
Answer: New Jersey