Niki Tsongas: “For a safe, stable, and secure Afghanistan to emerge, women must be fully included in Afghan society and government.”

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 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…

I think we're grateful for the NTSB, who's bringing some clarity, some objective clarity to just why this happened and what steps should be taken to prevent it from happening again.

My amendment increases funding by $5 million for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for the purposes of offshore wind job training grants. The amendment is paid for by using an equal offset from the…