Gerry Connolly

I want to commend you personally for your longstanding commitment to holding fair and substantive oversight hearings...

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 No. 11 Offered by Mr. Posey The Acting CHAIR. It is…

May I inquire of the Chair how much time is left on this side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 5, strike lines 4 through 7 and insert the following: (3) Congressional action.--With respect to any…

I wish my friend's characterization of the bill were accurate; but, sadly, I think what this bill does is cripple the ability of the government to protect the American public across a broad swath of policy areas that certainly matter to…

This Member will reserve the right to object at the appropriate time.

I have been disappointed, unfortunately, in this administration's willingness on a range of issues on Chinese human rights.

I think if we condemn the Chinese Government publicly and openly, it will feel the pressure.

If there is no dialogue, how do we effectuate change in policy?

If China wants to be fully accepted into the family of nations, of developed nations, China is going to have to wrestle with this issue of respect of human rights.

Mr. Blum is here to give us technical expertise and testimony that actually contradicts that assertion.

I would be certainly concerned about testimony that would say that.

I am very glad to have voted for the Affordable Care Act, and I am very glad you are here helping us illuminate the intricacies of its implementation and the benefits of its implementation.

I proudly did vote for the man who talked about hope, and I intend to do it again.

I certainly am pleased to join my colleagues, and especially my colleague from Oklahoma (Mr. Boren), in support of this bill. And I urge our colleagues to support H.R. 1369, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal…

I am pleased to join in support of my colleague from New York in her urging us to pass H.R. 3593, to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 787 State Route 17M in Monroe, New York, as the National Clandestine Service…

I'm pleased to again join my friend and colleague from Texas in honoring this brave man. Serving as many tours of duty in Vietnam was a rare event in that era than the tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was particularly…

Last year I was on the congressional trip to the Silicon Valley and to Seattle where we visited Microsoft, and we actually had sort of a big seminar for the business community and it was talking about this very topic, intellectual property…

I don't think it is an either/or proposition.

If you are a parent who has a kid who has been a victim of lead poisoning, you want more regulation, not less.

There won't be sympathy for the point of view that all regulation is bad; all regulation is a job killer.

I actually think there is a lot of bipartisan concern about regulations that go too far.

Some of the practices being deployed right now by GSA are, to me, very injurious to business interest.

With that, let me just urge my colleagues, in the spirit of bipartisanship, to come together and support our veterans and to make opportunity more available. It is, as I said, a sacred duty, it seems to me, that those men and women who are…

I believe we are seeing right now inside the Palestinian territories. The insiders get wealthy, the insiders gain more power.