Niki Tsongas: “We here in Congress have no greater responsibility than making sure that the men and women we send into harm's way are…”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 21, line 24, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $5,000,000)''. Page 32, line 1, after the…

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

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.

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.