Niki Tsongas: “Ma'am, I'm more afraid of my own soldiers than I am of the enemy.”

Crafted on a bipartisan basis by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon, NEPA has informed Federal decision making and increased transparency for over 40 years.

The question for Congress is, in my view, how do we keep it that way and make it even better?

This amendment really is a very modest investment in our Nation's workforce and, therefore, worthy of increased funding devoted to this purpose. We can't just be investing in energy technologies; we need to be investing in our people who…

To put it simply, NEPA makes sure that we 'look before we leap,' and are using taxpayer dollars wisely.