Gerry Connolly

On January 12 public confidence in Metro was shaken once again by a deadly electrical arcing and smoke accident.

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But rather than save workers, as its title would suggest, this bill will actually sabotage them. Again, CBO says 1 million people who currently have insurance will lose it under the Republican plan today, half of whom will have to go to…

Do you believe the current Afghan Government is committed to 'solving their own problem' with respect to narcotics?

The narcotics trade--well, poppy production has grown, not decreased, and the narcotics trade has grown, not decreased, both in volume and in value.

I would just say to you there is a profound difference between your testimony right here and now and what we heard in June--profound--and one is true or the other is true.

But we, of course, took our eye off the ball to invade Iraq that had nothing to do with 9/11.

I hope you are right. I sure hope that $61 billion--it is working.

I think that the comparisons between the two are overdrawn and--and I think that the nature of the security forces is one place where the comparisons are overdrawn.

Surely you could agree, based on what you know, not being an expert, and what I know, not being an expert, that that is hardly a success model.

We're hopeful that the legislation where Congress I hope is about to approve will help streamline that process

I thought I heard you say earlier that this was not going to be something that was voluntary; this was going to be mandatory compliance with the DATA Act. Is that correct?

Can we take that same principle and help rein in the Pentagon in terms of its practices, which seem, frankly, at variance with the rest of the Government?

Is there something about the Pentagon that seems particularly problematic when it comes to transparency, accountability, waste, fraud and abuse, efficiency, and even some sense of, we need to get in line like everybody else?

I want to congratulate you as well, and I can only thank God you did not have that gavel when you began your chairmanship...

Some of the President's loudest critics, of course, just couldn't quite bring themselves to support his request to retaliate in Syria against the use of chemical weapons.

The dangerous precedent set in Crimea cannot be understated--or overstated. Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea undermines Ukrainian sovereignty and threatens the stability of European borders.

This bill was one of his priorities and very, very important.

We need to send Putin a clear message that his forcible takeover of Crimea... will never be recognized by the United States.

Putin's nonsense rings hollow when he talks about trying to protect ethnic Russians and that is the reason for his aggression.

This brazen act is one of the most serious violations of international norms since the Second World War.

We should not recognize this act of aggression either.

Russia's annexation of Crimea is a clear violation of U.N. charter.

It is not the role of any executive-branch agency to prevent the legislative branch from undertaking its constitutional responsibilities.

Let's also stipulate we don't want a nuclear Iran. They are two different things to conflate the need for domestic reform in Iran.