Gerry Connolly

I happen to believe cyber security probably is one of the most important challenges, maybe the biggest threat, we face.

Protecting the sustained viability of community banks is important for the quality of life in small towns and rural counties.

The group of Democratic-leaning organizations was denied tax-exempt status by the IRS after their applications were pending for over 3 years.

This was the targeting of the President's political enemies, effectively, and lies about it during the election year so that it wasn't discovered until afterwards.

We should not rush to judgment. Words mean something. We need to be careful.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Tonko

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 5, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $15,500,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

So we knowingly want to stay engaged and we want to minimize risks and try to understand it but we can't eliminate it.

The United States has interests in North Africa, and also as my colleagues have testified what is happening in North Africa is not staying in North Africa.

Ted Poe and I both believe it is time for transparency in the Supreme Court. We want cameras in the Supreme Court.

We are neither omnipotent nor omniscient.

One of the things I would urge you to look at is, as part of this, are U.S. Attorneys' offices sufficiently seized with this mission?

If you round it out at $125 billion a year, and that could be a low figure, actually, but we will take that one, times ten, it exceeds sequestration.

If every one of them replicated the zeal and the commitment of talent that this one did, we could bring that $50 billion number down considerably.

Before I yield back, I just want to congratulate the gentleman on his legislation. It is correcting an error, and it will make a very positive benefit for so many veterans organizations, including the ones he enumerated. I am proud to…

I would argue part of the problem was our own command structure because we, frankly, infused Ambassador Bremer with way too much power.

How can we be surprised that the United States finds so much waste based on a war that had nothing but false premises?

I am particularly proud of being an original co-sponsor of the Vietnam Human Rights Act where human rights violations continue.

I think both regimes, in a way, they were mirror images of each other.

There was a difference between the Ba'athist philosophy that governed both in Iraq and Syria with respect to minority rights.

I was more hopeful about the outcomes in Libya in terms of pluralism and respect for minority rights.

The jihadist element in the rebels that is extremely worrisome, and these are being supported, it is no secret, from the Gulf region.

I am not sure the intervention in Lebanon under the Ronald Reagan administration was such a wise policy in retrospect.

I wish the world were that black and white. I wish our choices were that simple. They are not.

I share the chairman's concern about the fate of so many minority communities in the region.