Gerry Connolly actually said...

"Continued human rights abuses and power consolidation at the expense of peaceful opposition in Egypt is neither consistent with U.S. interests and principles nor an expedient path to an ultimately sec..."

"Those goals should inform our dialogue with the el-Sisi government and how we confront the fissures that have opened up in this alliance."

"The recently concluded House of Representatives elections did little to consolidate democratic gains."

"We need to do this. The only thing succeeding on the ground in that region that we've invested in is the Peshmerga."