Niki Tsongas: “I would urge the Department to do everything in its modernization efforts to incentivize lighter-weight body armor in…”

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.

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…

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.