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

Given the information that we have learned from the gas explosions that devastated the Merrimack Valley in September, it is now clear that this disaster was entirely preventable.

Many still do not have safe drinking water.

I think it is important to remember that we are having this hearing today because it has been 47 days since the landfall of Hurricane Maria, and yet our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico are still enduring a humanitarian crisis.

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