Gerry Connolly

The individual mandate that we have in RomneyCare and ObamaCare, do you know where it came from intellectually?

If there are things to be fixed, why not come together and try to fix them?

You know, I wish, on this subject, we could sort of move beyond the partisan talking points.

Wouldn't it be fair to say the goal here for the ACA, the Affordable Health Care Act, known as ObamaCare, was never to have a perfect Website, it was to get people enrolled. Website is a method, not an end.

Is that not the second lowest uninsured population in the United States?

We are trying to save people's lives. We are trying to make sure that we keep people healthy.

I wonder what it would be like if we could just join in together to address those issues.

The point is he cited some figures about job creation that are directly disputed by the Washington Post analysis which was fairly thorough.

The Washington Post did an extensive analysis of job creation related to the Keystone Pipeline, and they found no such figures as suggested by my friend from Pennsylvania.

I think diversity of liquid natural gas supply is important for Western and Eastern European security from Russia.

I think that ought to be a joint venture that we work on together.

Are you aware of the fact that the documents filed by the company that would own the Keystone Pipeline, the Canadian company, actually admit explicitly that if the pipeline were to be built, the price of oil and other related products in…

The fact of the matter is there is wide variety of regulation in fracking that's anything but uniform.

Every single one--there are five long-term contracts, which is a little unusual for a pipeline because generally they kind of participate in the spot market.

I believe that companies should be required to disclose what they pump into the ground just as they must tell us what they put in our food.

Representative Ros-Lehtinen and I introduced bipartisan legislation last year, the Open Fuel Standard Act, that requires half of all new vehicles to run on non-petroleum fuels such as natural gas or electricity.

It's an unbelievable story, and it deserves much more attention.

Returning North Korean refugees who get into China back to the North Korean regime is virtually a death sentence, and certainly a terrible blemish on the Chinese record.

So, I think what the U.S. needs to do is point out to China that its refusal or its resistance to putting pressure on North Korea is bringing about the very crisis it doesn't want.

I've written the chairman requesting a markup of H.R. 1771, and we're going to do that.

I found your testimony right on, and very helpful in terms of not just providing a critique of U.S. policy, but giving us a roadmap for how we might become much more efficacious.

It is imperative that the United States put teeth into the sanctions it imposes in the North.

It's clear that a non-nuclear and compliant North Korea is an unreachable goal if the administration maintains its current policy approach.

So how in the world did we get to a situation where the IRS, on its own, outside of statutory authority, decided to interpret this as primarily?

There are some of us here who wish you well and will certainly cooperate with you and try to make sure yours is a successful tenure.