Gerry Connolly actually said...

"That's a pretty expensive mandate to try to clean up the Chesapeake Bay."

"Richmond has a very different political philosophy than Northern Virginia in terms of our Federal partners and how these programs trickle down at the local level."

"A lot of us talk loosely, especially those of us who have no experience in local government, about 'let's just block-grant everything, send it to the State, and their tender mercies will see to it tha..."

"So the Federal Government, as you pointed out, has a big stake in the future of Metro since a third of the Federal workforce uses Metro to get to work every day."