Gerry Connolly actually said...

"There is still a lot of discrimination, favoritism, nepotism, outright outrageous discriminatory behavior..."

"I want to compliment the chairman. I hope this doesn't hurt him, but he has gone way beyond ideology on Federal employee issues."

"There are all kinds of miscarriages of justice that would occur in the absence of high--the current evidentiary standards for allegations of misconduct."

"I salute Mr. Meadows for that effort."