Gerry Connolly

One wants to know why President Obama won the reelection and why Mr. Romney lost.

We believe 6-day delivery remains a critical strength and a competitive advantage for the USPS.

Barack Obama was not responsible for the Benghazi attack any more than George W. Bush was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

A more serious and sustained commitment from Congress to support State Department needs.

Might it be a fair statement that the way we are treating Federal employees is going to make it more difficult moving forward to recruit and retain, especially highly skilled sets; freezing salaries for 3 years, raiding their benefits to…

I do think it is other constraint we have to look at in terms of our own process in Congress...

I am going to ask three categories of questions. And I am going to do it as fast as I can.

He actually said it stifles innovation, it sets us back in terms of thoughtful Federal IT procurement.

I think the committee would appreciate it.

Thank you for making that point, though. Who knew that actually obsolete and antiquated systems were helping in the fight against cyberattacks? Thank you.

Government is slow to pull the plug when we do make a mistake, much slower than the private sector.

We are working together and our staffs are working together on a draft bill that I think can move us into the bright sunshine of this part of the 21st century.

If the entire 113th Congress can begin on the note we are beginning on today, we are going to be making music for 2 years.

I am pleased again to join with the distinguished chairman in support of S. 3630. Again, we are honoring service to country. We are honoring bravery and the ultimate sacrifice by a young American, Captain Rhett W. Schiller. I think it is…

If I may inquire, Mr. Speaker, if my colleague on the other side has any other speakers?

Before I call on the distinguished Member from Virginia, I would simply note, of course, the productivity I talk about is the productivity of this legislative body, not the honorable men and women who serve us, but for us. And we passed a…

I would normally yield, but I would remind my friend, Mr. Speaker, that he would not yield to me when he made his comments about cosponsorship of the piece of legislation, and so I reluctantly will not yield. I now yield 3 minutes to the…

I would simply observe to my friend, the chairman of the committee, in talking about the 11 percent cut here in the House of Representatives, of course that does not address the lack of productivity here in the House. There are many…

In order to allow the author of the bill to speak, I reserve the balance of my time.

We take responsibility for them and we are working very hard and we will continue to work hard relentlessly to fix them.

It certainly is. The ARB was quite clear and quite candid in identifying the serious systemic problems that occurred.

The report concluded very clearly that it was terrorists who were responsible for the deaths of our 4 colleagues.

A tragedy occurred in Benghazi. Benghazi is inherently unstable.

When a tragedy occurs such as this, and I am old enough to have worked up here when Ronald Reagan was President...

The Honorable Gerald E. Connolly, a Member of Congress from the State of Va, written statement.