Gerry Connolly

I'm reading what I think is one of the most extraordinary statements I've ever read from a United States official.

That is a very dangerous place for the United States to be.

We can either afford to fund a food stamp program or we can fund our foreign policy interests. We cannot do both.

To trash somebody's good reputation, who has served his country well as a labor of love...

I completely disavow those comments. I think you have been an exemplary public servant.

We are in a Kafka novel.

I just want to say that, at least on this side of the aisle, you are an esteemed public servant.

What we shouldn't be doing is trying to paint with a guilty brush by insinuation the guilt of Mr. Beale and perhaps others.

I think it is really important we put this hearing in that context.

Part of me feels we are a little bit fiddling while Rome is burning because of course, we are now on the first day of a complete government shutdown.

I find it ironic the implicit criticism of an administration that did what the previous administration could not do for 7 years.

The idea that money doesn't play a role is simply not true.

Sometimes when people say it is not about money, it is about money.

I wish more of our colleagues would follow the spirit in which you have set the tone of this hearing.

It lacked a universal mandate, an individual mandate.

I thank the chairman.

I sincerely hope that this is the beginning of the end of the charade to undermine a law that has been found to be constitutional.

I strongly believe in the importance of congressional oversight; it is our job to make sure that the laws of this land, laws passed by Congress, are carried out effectively and efficiently.

This committee has, instead, chosen to undermine the law and encourage the vowed obstructionists who are throwing hurdles in its way at every step of the process.

The only justification for this new requirement is that it helps obstruct implementation of Obamacare.

The U.S. taxpayer is pumping tens of billions of dollars to save this company and try to make sure we don't lose all those jobs and the whole industrial core of our economy.

As an investigative body it is critically important that we follow the facts wherever they need.

I feel bad for the Delphi employees who did not receive top-ups. There will be hard days ahead for them.

It is unfortunate that, regardless of these impressive results, Republicans continue to criticize the successful rescue of the American auto industry.

Ultimately, GM did not fail and the broader systemic consequences of a GM failure that Treasury had feared were avoided.