Gerry Connolly

We have got to be bottom line focused here, including the State Department. Are we making progress or are we falling behind?

The question is, is it effective? Are we losing this battle or are we winning it, and what are the metrics that get us to winning?

Mr. Rohrabacher, my lowest priority in the budget is defunding Obamacare.

How are we going to correct it moving forward?

But for years we weren't catching the fact that people were dumping.

When Ronald Reagan was going to Iceland, he invoked a Russian expression, dovre noprovre; trust, but verify. It looks to me, in this case, that OPM fell down on the job of the verify piece.

I would remind my Republican friends who raised the question of maybe we should make certain kinds of Federal assistance contingent on their full cooperation, a desirable goal, but in light of the Supreme Court ruling in the Affordable…

One wonders what could go wrong with that.

It ought to trouble a Tea Party panel and a lawyer who represented the ACLU that this committee took upon itself a unique task in voting that a U.S. citizen, irrespective of her views or what you think she did or did not say, to protect…

Every one of us on this side of the aisle voted not to do that because irrespective of what one may decide on the substance of Ms. Lois Lerner's behavior, testimony, whatever, we think American citizens are entitled to constitutional…

Maliki's commitment most recently to give tribal fighters all the benefits of an Iraqi soldier... is a very significant commitment.

How in the world--isn't that an indictment of the investments we've made in the Iraqi military and its inability to hold its own territory secure?

What a novel thought, allowing people to vote remotely--a thought here for the United States.

There should not be a delay.

We have tens of thousands of displaced families from Anbar Province. We have been assured by those planning the elections that displaced people will still be able to vote and the vote will count as if they were in their home province.

The authorization for the use of military force, the administration has indicated it would not oppose the repeal of that.

I'm skeptical about the progress, the milestones being alleged, so I look forward to hearing the testimony of our witnesses.

I have to say it's deja vu all over again when I look at this data.

Our policy is that arms sales and our contribution to Taiwan's security contributes to cross strait stability and we are committed to helping to meet Taiwan's legitimate security needs.

One of the concerns I have in this whole situation talked about in a previous hearing is the space for miscalculation.

What are we prepared to do to curb Chinese excesses as we perceive them in that region?

We want and the region needs a China that embraces the rule of law.

I do not know if you are aware of the fact that the Chamber of Commerce actually issued a statement warning against the Rubio legislation, the repeal of the risk corridors.

So one might even want--to sort of coin an expression Herman Kane made famous in the 2012 Republican primaries, I will do 16-8-8.

I want to be clear from the outset. I am not unsympathetic to the concerns raised by skeptics on decriminalization.