Gerry Connolly actually said...

"That's not what an elected official has to do."

"He has sworn to uphold the law, Mr. Mendelson, and he's trying to do that."

"Sometimes we take incremental progress, real incremental progress that takes the immediate and short term existential threat and reduces it or reverses it significantly, that is better than the altern..."

"But we have bought some time, and we didn't just buy time and freeze it in place. We reversed it."