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Gerry Connolly

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Gerry Edward Connolly is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia's 11th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Connolly has focused on various issues including government accountability, environmental protection, and healthcare reform. He has served on several committees, including the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, where he has been involved in investigations and legislation related to federal oversight and transparency.

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Apr 2, 2014

We don't want to have a whole bunch of Ph.D.s with nothing to do.

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Apr 2, 2014

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

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Apr 2, 2014

If you are going to have education you got to have opportunity that goes with it.

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Apr 2, 2014

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.

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Apr 2, 2014

So we must ensure that promoting education for girls and women abroad remains a priority for the U.S.

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Apr 2, 2014

We must do everything we can to increase opportunities available to women and girls, especially in countries that are struggling to achieve peace and democracy.

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Apr 2, 2014

I think it is really important, as we just heard in this hearing, education is transformative. It is the key to changing the status of women.

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Apr 2, 2014

Every child deserves the opportunity to obtain a quality education in the best environment possible and to be given the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

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Apr 2, 2014

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

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Apr 2, 2014

I think moving into the 21st century by empowering women and giving them more space--more public space to express themselves and to be educated, to get jobs, to be involved in politics, we are going to push some of those social cultural…

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Apr 2, 2014

Do you have an individual mandate requirement in Massachusetts that preceded ObamaCare?

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Apr 1, 2014

I thank my good friend from New York. Let me begin first by thanking and extending my commendation to the distinguished chairman of our committee, Mr. Royce, and our distinguished ranking member, Mr. Engel. They have comported the Foreign…

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Mar 27, 2014

I thank my friend. I also congratulate the ranking member, Mr. Engel, and the chairman, Mr. Royce, for their bipartisan leadership on this critical, critical resolution. Mr. Speaker, apparently, once a KGB agent, always a KGB agent. Mr…

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Mar 25, 2014

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.

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Mar 25, 2014

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

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Mar 25, 2014

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

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Mar 25, 2014

be on your guard, because there is something else at work here.

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Mar 25, 2014

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.

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Mar 25, 2014

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.

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Mar 25, 2014

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.

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Mar 25, 2014

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?

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Mar 25, 2014

the last thing in the world they would do is end this ongoing, if you can call it that, investigation, because it serves their political aims.

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Mar 25, 2014

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

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Mar 25, 2014

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

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Mar 25, 2014

the serious purpose of investigation seems to be lost in the mire and the muck.

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