Gerry Connolly

I think this is a shameful exercise, and I am very sad you have chosen to participate and be used the way you are being used.

This is a panel designed... to embarrass the President of the United States.

I think that is shameful.

I believe today's hearing is a sham.

Everything you just described could have been said in 1979 about Iran.

I think it is important for the President to be putting his marker down to say that we need to examine the form and shape of government.

I think that it created something in terms of a dynamic that improved productivity and morale.

I particularly wanted to welcome my home state Senator, soon to be the senior senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Mark Warner.

I heard the eloquent cry for bipartisanship from the gentleman from California just a few minutes ago. Here's an amendment that passed unanimously, without objection on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It, by no means, grants…

I wish everybody had to take that course in Congress to better understand what a Byzantine world we have created with the best of intentions in terms of export controls.

But, Mr. Williams, with due respect, that was not my question. My question was, is it efficacious?

Along with my colleagues Don Manzullo and Gerry Connolly, I introduced H.R. 3288, the Safeguarding United States Satellite Leadership and Security Act, last November.

Last May I introduced H.R. 2004, the Technology Security and Antiboycott Act, to succeed the EAA.

Export controls must be calibrated to serve academic and technological excellence and support U.S. high-tech jobs.

It seems to me that one of our goals in this subcommittee and in pursuing this subject is how do we put in place processes that push us toward that goal.

Here we have improper payments that are $125 billion plus every year which would exceed actually the goal of the Super Committee if somehow we could get it to zero.

But it sounds like, as the Chairman was pointing out in terms of suspension and debarment, and, frankly, what the statistics you just gave, Mr. O'Neill, in terms of the prosecution, it doesn't sound like a very vigorous effort.

The Administration's efforts to lower veteran unemployment by providing hiring tax credits and securing private sector commitments to hire service members separating from the military are not only good for veterans, but actually good for…

As we are having a political talk about let's shrink the Federal Government by 5 percent or 10 percent in terms of workforce, strategic investments in certain parts of the Federal Government in terms of personnel can have huge return on…

But I guess I am trying to get at, as the Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee here, what is the extent of our problem.

Programs like the Post-9/11 GI Bill, passed by Congress in 2008 and used by over half a million veterans, are essential.

We have, in my view, a sacred obligation to support those who chose to wear the uniform.

Max Cleland represents the finest tradition of service to his Country and left an awful lot of himself physically back in Vietnam.

President Ahmadinejad's charm offensive here in the Western Hemisphere ought to be of concern to the United States.

Reinstatement of the assault weapons ban as American law.