Gerry Connolly actually said...

"We ought not to be in the position of prohibiting Americans from traveling frankly anywhere."

"I do not think the solution is for us to have a blanket prohibition country by country, you know, cordoning off large chunks of the world's geography because Americans are at risk."

"Is it not also true that under President Trump and Ambassador Khalilzad, those negotiations led to the release of five thousand Taliban prisoners, many of whom we'd tagged as terrorists."

"the prerogative of war making is exclusively granted to the Congress of the United States."