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Gerry Connolly

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Gerry Edward Connolly is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia's 11th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Connolly has focused on various issues including government accountability, environmental protection, and healthcare reform. He has served on several committees, including the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, where he has been involved in investigations and legislation related to federal oversight and transparency.

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Apr 23, 2015

I would hope that you would show the courage that you are personally known for and, on April 24, use the word 'genocide' to describe what happened in Anatolia 100 years ago.

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Apr 22, 2015

I want to thank your staffs as well for cooperating with us on inclusion of our amendment on H. Res. 50, reiterating the unqualified U.S. support for Ukrainian sovereignty in all respects.

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Apr 21, 2015

Trust me there is a question in here somewhere.

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Apr 21, 2015

Fundamentally, this deal will represent acceptance of Iran as a nuclear weapons threshold state.

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Apr 21, 2015

We cannot approve the agreement and leave it to a future President and a future Congress to decide.

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Apr 21, 2015

Congress needs to stand up for itself.

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Apr 21, 2015

to assert that it is violation of the Constitution is in fact on its face false

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Apr 21, 2015

This is a radical departure in U.S. nonproliferation policy.

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Apr 21, 2015

I would be glad to work with you, because while some of this is by executive order, that does not necessarily survive a particular president.

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Apr 21, 2015

We are told that the additional protocol is going to give us access.

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Apr 21, 2015

We have 250 people with the title CIO, and we didn't, by fiat, say thou shalt only have one.

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Apr 21, 2015

The number one cybersecurity threat or vulnerability facing any company is the behavior of its own employees.

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Apr 21, 2015

We would like to work with you, and with your office as well, Ms. Seymour, in particular, about implementation.

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Apr 21, 2015

The best cybersecurity policies in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if an organization's culture does not translate good policy into better practice.

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Apr 21, 2015

Obviously, cybersecurity is a sophisticated and evolving national challenge.

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Apr 21, 2015

FITARA, although here at the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, we prefer to call it Issa-Connolly.

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Apr 21, 2015

What we are agreeing to here is that we are agreeing to a pathway, to a process.

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Apr 21, 2015

I think in an ideal world I would love to work out all those issues. But right now the big issue on the table is we don't want a nuclear Iran and we got to start somewhere.

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Apr 21, 2015

I have grave reservations about whether we can hold P5+1 together.

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Apr 15, 2015

We need to be speaking in respectful tones about our workforce. We need to be motivating them and incentivizing them.

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Apr 15, 2015

Defending the Federal employee is of low political yield in many districts, not mine, but many.

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Apr 15, 2015

And would it be fair to say that it is a little misleading to even give a grade to the Department of Homeland Security as a whole because, actually, when you look at your constituent parts, there is enormous variety in the scores of morale…

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Apr 15, 2015

And I don't want to overstate it. And the chairman was kind enough to note that I was a little agitated as you were answering his question because I do think that Congress has to take responsibility for some of this.

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