CNO Greenert testified a year ago that we need two to three squadrons of Super Hornets to offset the attrition loss.

Mr. President, I want to speak about the compromise budget legislation we are debating on the Senate floor. This is a good deal that covers so many important topics: sequester relief for defense and nondefense accounts, the debt limit…

Mr. Speaker, I thank Mrs. Watson Coleman for all of her work, particularly the work she has done in New Jersey when she was in the State legislature and now in Congress. I want to thank the Congressional caucus for holding this Special…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the bipartisan budget agreement that will come before us here in the House soon. It restores critical funding for our Nation's defense and domestic priorities in a balanced fashion, sparing us from the…

Mr. Speaker, I have to speak fast. The Export-Import Bank is good for America, and the arguments against it, in my opinion, are un-American. This is the perfect Republican dream. It reduces the deficit. It adds to the Treasury. It creates…

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 1090, the so-called Retail Investor Protection Act. This bill puts an effective end to the Department of Labor's responsible effort to modernize a fiduciary standard under the Employee Retirement…

I think that the missile test was less about threatening the United States as it was about the internal battle in Iranian politics.

Would you agree that the stated mission that the United States has of defeating ISIL is one that is going to take some significant period of time?

I think these two legal questions have got to be resolved.

I do think we need to take action immediately to show that we are not going to be pushed around.

I think that issue has got to be resolved if we are going to continue to be a nation of laws, as we claim we are.

I fear that is what is happening right now on this particular issue.

I think this is a dangerous, dangerous position for the United States to be in.

Madam President, I rise today to commemorate an important but largely unheralded anniversary. Seventy years ago yesterday, President Harry Truman changed the design of the Presidential flag and seal. That moment, which is a small moment in…

Congressman Gerald E. Connolly Opening Statement

This really is so much more important than recordkeeping or how we deploy technology. This is about how we treat our active duty and military veterans.

And one of the problems is, we've had bureaucratic inertia between two agencies that can't get their acts together on behalf of the men and women we are serving.

I led a letter signed by 70 of my colleagues asking the administration to raise that number to 100,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2017.