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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

The regime leverages food and water as a weapon of war.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

I am proud that the United States has stepped up to lead the worldwide humanitarian response effort.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

This flagrant violation of international humanitarian norms must end.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

This would dishearten them, I can assure you. This is not a signal of support. This is a retreat.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

It is simple, it is uncomplicated, and it is designed to show solidarity with our democratic friends struggling in the Ukraine.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

It is up to the Ukraine, I would say to my friend from California, to decide on the disposition of its own territory, not up to us and not up to Russia.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

Should one construe from the fact that the last time the head of Homeland Security provided that notification to the Department of State, Secretary of State was 15 years ago that we haven't had a problem in the interim?

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

One might conclude from what you just said that, look, this authority or strengthening this authority through new legislation is a very crude weapon.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

I think that what unites Americans is that we do believe that people have a right, through the ballot box, to determine their destiny.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

They have a democratic government. They had a revolution to get it. They overthrew the previous government because it was corrupt, it was a kleptocracy.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

You must withdraw from your illegal annexation and occupation of the Crimea.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

The proper analogy actually is the American Civil War, Mr. Rohrabacher. It was not up to the United Kingdom and France to recognize Confederate independence.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

There are international mechanisms for dispute resolution. They do not include the invasion and occupation for 8 long years of another country's sovereign territory.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

This resolution serves as a clear and unequivocal statement in support of the sovereign territory of Georgia.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

You cannot have any confidence in an election when Russian troops are all over your territory.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

We will be unwavering in insisting on the territorial sovereignty of sovereign states, whether Putin likes it or not.

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Gerry Connolly
@gerryconnolly· Democratic · VA· Jul 13, 2016

I have consistently insisted, since the illegal invasion and annexation of the Crimea, that we must be clear as a bell, no ambiguity, no other conditionality.

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Jim Costa
@jimcosta· Democratic · CA· Jul 13, 2016

If we are waiting for the private sector to come in and finance it, especially in this day and age... good luck.

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