Gerry Connolly

It is easy to discount the monumental achievement in light of current auto industry conditions.

Hopefully with the issuance of SIGTARP's report and today's hearing, we can finally put to rest the unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

SIGTARP's report directly and definitively refutes the narrative we have just heard on this subject.

I take exception to on his behalf and on behalf of this side of the aisle.

If we do nothing, what is the likelihood, in your judgment, that Bashar al-Assad will use chemical weapons as a routine weapon to turn the tide of the civil war?

I have come to the conclusion myself that the evidence is convincing and compelling.

I commend it to both Secretaries and urge you to look at it.

We are not dealing with a President who is hungering to invade another country or put boots on the ground.

I thank my friend. Madam Speaker, the distinguished chairman of this committee throws a picture up on the floor and, of course, doesn't allow me to respond when he demands ``is this what the gentleman from Virginia is talking about.'' It…

I don't hear any outrage about that.

I believe on the 18th, under oath again, in response to questioning from Mr. Cartwright...

One can stand up on a pile of paper, and that act could be construed... to be an intimidating act.

I apologize for the treatment you have gotten here today.

Mr. Connolly. I will gladly give that unanimous consent, provided that the Democratic side of the aisle be allowed to respond.

There have been a lot of hearings about IRS on various and sundry matters, but this is one that touches almost every taxpayer potentially.

I thank the Chair, and at this time I am pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Kildee), my co-author of this amendment.

This is a good example of coming together and legislating, and legislating to create some common good.

I am also proud to cosponsor this legislation, and I thank you and the ranking member for bringing it up this morning.

I thank my colleague, and I look forward to working with him. I yield to the distinguished ranking member.

We want to help. This is an important part of Government that doesn't get sufficient attention.

You know, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Lewis' answer to me at the beginning, the State Department said the talks went very well...

I am not arguing for a forceful, you know, armed conflict, but I am arguing for much tougher enforcement and teeth with it than has occurred heretofore.

I guess I would suggest to you that my own observation over four decades is the Chinese respect power and sometimes little else.

It is wholesale, state-supported theft, and a direct threat to the national security of this country.

We need to work with India, but we have to be very careful that the perception is not that we are somehow tilting against the Chinese.