Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I will say it is always troubling when politicians interpose themselves for science and for empirical-based policymaking when we do not like the conclusions we come up with on our own."

"the military are pragmatists. We have not got time for theoretical debates. And the fact of the matter is we are seeing the consequences of something."

"even in this Administration which continues officially to deny the science of climate change, in a January 2019 DoD report, of the 79--they looked at 79 installations."

"According to the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, the U.S. intelligence community finds that North Korea will seek to retain its weapons of mass destruction capability."