Gerry Connolly

I hope that you would furnish for the record a statement that our position is, once you are in the NPT, you cannot get out.

It is so bad, that is why I am coming to speak to Congress.

Have we thought about using the South Africa model for IAE inspections with respect to our negotiations with Iran?

Will you immediately seek to restart and significantly expand critical military training of human rights-vetted Nigerian Armed Forces to combat the existential threat posed by Boko Haram?

Every one of those other strategies would have resulted in an awful lot of American combat casualties.

I want to be one of the first to commend you for the administration's approach to Iraq and Syria.

Did President Obama raise child abduction cases with Prime Minister Modi when they met in late January?

I respectfully ask perhaps you can help make that happen.

If I'm looking at page 3 of your interim report, the answer seems to be no.

Yes. But obviously the system did not work properly and one life was lost and we could have lost more.

Here we are 14 years later and Mr. Mills is testifying that none of the radios worked underground.

We were going to have a uniform set of standards so we could all speak to one another.

This is a management issue. This is about management, not about the rank and file.

I have particular concerns over safety culture.

I look forward to fully examining why there was a delay in evacuating passengers.

Metro is America's subway and this has national implications.

We are offer our deepest condolences to her family and our sincere gratitude to the brave first responders.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thanks to you and Mr. Meadows for so graciously agreeing to have this hearing.

Despite the horrific brutality of ISIS and its devastating attacks in Syria and Iraq and against American and other Western citizens, it is still the ruthless Assad regime that remains the biggest threat to the Syrian people.

This is something that has bothered me for a long time.

I, myself, have called the Secret Service on occasion to ask them to investigate a potential threat against a public official, including the President of the United States.

The paramount mission is protecting the President and other high-ranking national officials and allows no tolerance for error.

There is this assumption in large chunks of the world that we are somehow omnipotent and we most certainly are not.

For me, you have been a model of oversight commitment to the work in both countries at personal risk and peril to yourself.

I commend this committee for your recent legislation. I look forward to working with you to make sure it is successfully implemented.