Niki Tsongas: “The fiscal year 2018 President's budget prioritizes defense spending at the expense of other national priorities, like…”

I thank Ranking Member Smith for yielding. Earlier this month, the Armed Services Committee advanced the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to the House floor with broad, bipartisan support. I thank Chairman Thornberry and…

I too, feel that we as a full body of Congress should have the opportunity to debate an authorization for use of military force.

I would like to say, first, that energy infrastructure is critical to our economy; yet we cannot simply give the fossil fuel industry carte blanche to build pipelines without robust public reviews. I yield 1\3/4\ minutes to the gentleman…

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…