Gerry Connolly

Democracy in Colombia is not in peril.

What would imperil Colombia and, indeed, the region are the Republican proposed cuts, roughly, 30 percent for our entire State foreign operations and related programs budgets.

This is the system. You will use it.

We had a hearing, and we talked about Australian military capability. And it needs--there is plenty of room for improvement.

Vaccination denial would have cost millions of more lives in America: 1.1 million fellow Americans are dead today because of the pandemic.

Hate speech has consequences. Distortion of the truth has consequences.

Five are dead, including my constituent, a Capitol Hill police officer, who died the next day from the trauma and shock of that experience.

I've been in this Congress 15 years, and I never thought we would descend to this level or Orwellian dystopia.

A statement submitted by the Honorable Gerry Connolly, a Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government from the State of Virginia, Jul. 20, 2023, for the record

If we are going to talk about Ukraine and Burisma, let us remember that the President of the United States, not Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump, was impeached over a phone call to the president of Ukraine wanting to get dirt on this very…

My friend from South Carolina said he was going to simplify it for the American people. I think he succeeded, so simple as to be unrecognizable.

This hearing is not about putting up guardrails, it is about ripping away a safety net.

This hearing does not meet those standards because what powerful people are we holding to account here?

It would be funny to watch this bad argument fall apart if it were not such a waste of time.

We work on individual cases of oppression. We often get notified in the late hours of the night or the early morning that there are individuals who are being persecuted or who have been arrested or wrongly detained.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the original signing of the International Religious Freedom Act, 25 years of protecting a human right that is fundamental to the history of the United States.

I think she would decry an explicit prohibition. Because it will be harmful to the countries we serve in that region.

I think it's unbelievable and potentially catastrophic. And, I think it will most certainly hurt your programs.

Can you imagine if someone audited this Committee? Oh, wait, I have that audit of this Committee. Actually, it is in form of an indictment.

It is held hostage over the culture war, right. It is not about defense.

I find it odd to hear a Republican supporter of Donald Trump complain that we did not do more earlier to deter Russia.

It is doable, but it has to be planned.

But shouldn't they be consolidated?

And in one 5-minute questioning, my colleague, Ms. Porter from California, showed the American people, in clear and understandable terms, numbers and systems that are at risk or at fault, and it is their tax dollars, and it is our national…

So how does the President, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the Secretary of Defense manage financially within the budget Congress gives them if they have got over 400 systems, they do not talk to each other, they do not cooperate, and do not…