Gerry Connolly

Should we have just walked away from it and said, no, we don't trust you?

The United States and the Kingdom of Jordan have a long and close collaborative relationship.

If WHO is going to be the primary international agency with which we need to partner in this kind of crisis... we have got to have confidence that that international partner is competent and has the resources and the talent to respond in a…

To prevent this from happening, we need to stamp out Ebola at its source.

Given the dire humanitarian impact Ebola is having on west Africa and the global health threat this disease poses, I strongly support this request.

Ebola is a global challenge, requiring a global response.

The United States has been a leader in the response to Ebola, particularly in Liberia.

As a New Yorker, let me say how proud I am of the staff of Bellevue Hospital and all of the New York public health officials who were involved in successfully treating Dr. Craig Spencer, who was released on Tuesday Ebola free.

It's absolutely vital for public servants to conduct themselves in a manner that reduces both real and perceived risks of such waste, fraud, and abuse.

We don't pretend we don't have disagreements. But we have been able to find common ground.

We need an explicit prohibition on the use of--personal use of these cards, period.

We have absolutely worked on a bipartisan basis on our agenda for this subcommittee.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. And thank you, Mr. Rubin, for that impassioned plea.

I thank the ranking member, Congressman Deutch, who along with Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, have been our steadfast champions.

I thank Chairman Ros-Lehtinen for allowing me to testify today.

Simply put, Germany must fulfill its moral responsibility to care for all the medical and mental health needs of the survivors and their families.

There has to still be accountability and then, secondly, there has to be expiation.

There aren't words to describe the horror of the Holocaust.

Isn't it just as flimsy to cite a resolution for a different time, a different environment, a different challenge 13 years ago?

We dithered, we kvetched, we wrung our hands, we found all kinds of rationalizations for why we just couldn't bring ourselves to do it.

What happened in Syria last year was a signal failure by this Congress.

One might suggest it is time to return to that subject and the meaning of those two adverbs because I think there are organizations that I do not think anybody in the public would agree are primarily or exclusively social welfare…

I thank my friend. We, as elected officials, have to recognize the valuable role science must play in making good public policy--not anecdotes, science. I think Neil deGrasse Tyson said it best when he said: ``The good thing about science…

Due to the Peace Corps' interpretation of that act, the agency, however, withheld from the IG certain personal information about victims as well as sexually explicit details about sexual crimes.

Specifically in 2011, we passed the Kate Puzey Volunteer Protection Act, to which I just referred, requiring the Peace Corps to establish a restricted reporting system giving volunteers the option to report sexual assaults on a…