Niki Tsongas: “Despite widespread public support for the National Park Service, its budget has been decreasing.”

The Contra Costa Canal serves as a primary water delivery system for 500,000 people in central and eastern Contra Costa County, California. The canal system is currently too exposed, resulting in safety hazards, degraded water quality and…

Our Nation's public lands protect some of the natural and historic places that have shaped and defined who we are as a people and a country, and would not have been protected without support from the Federal Government.

I thank Ranking Member Smith for his always knowledgeable and articulate leadership. I have appreciated it very much as I have served on this committee. Mr. Speaker, it has been my privilege to serve as the ranking member of the Tactical…

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