Gerry Connolly actually said...

"Surely my colleague did not mean to suggest that those of us who have a different opinion on guns are communists."

"the point of this hearing by the majority, references to communism notwithstanding, is to try to prove that the Federal Government is reckless..."

"I believe that those actions are almost designed to play into the hands of the very people you and I want to prevent from coming to power."

"The idea that there is only this military-led government or chaos in the void seems to me an unacceptable proposition."