Gerry Connolly

The current Australian military is no longer fit for purpose.

I continue to encourage the State Department and USAID efforts to maintain peace and stability in Northern Ireland.

I'm pleased that the USAID announced in December new initiatives to support democratic resiliency in Central Europe.

I hope we can move forward with a vote on the floor on that soon.

I want you making decisions about my treatment and the drugs you prescribe that you think are necessary and efficacious...

I want to thank the President, again, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the work it is doing around Medicare.

Medicare should be covering everyone, in my personal opinion.

Rep. Connolly's Statement for the Record; submitted by Rep. Connolly.

I must say, listening to this hearing, I don't walk away convinced of anything other than we're listening to sad tales of certain individuals about their situation.

I must say, my friend from California, I don't know where this concern for whistleblowers and protecting whistleblowers was in the Ukraine episode, in that perfect phone call Donald Trump had with President Zelensky, in which a…

One of the heroes in this story was actually the postman.

I have been here 15 years, and I do not think I have ever experienced just the collapse of partisanship over a human issue.

The results have often been fatal.

I am concerned about the safety of our hard-working postal carriers by senseless criminals.

The attack on his staff earlier this week is weighing heavily on his mind.

But, actually, if they do what they say and hold defense and vets harmless actually could be up to 50 percent.

So as the ranking member of the Africa Subcommittee I'm very focused on ensuring Congress and the Biden Administration prioritizes the African continent.

I just want to point out the hypocrisy that a party that talks about controlling disease and rants and rails about the money we have to spend combating these diseases has a wide open border policy that allows diseases into our own country…

The irony as well as tragedy of that is we're actually making progress on malaria in terms of both prevention and maybe even a cure.

So life and death kind of issue?

I want to followup on the line of questioning of the ranking member and maybe go into programmatic impacts of the hostage-taking debt ceiling bill passed by the Republican majority that requires draconian if not reckless budget cuts all…

You've been willing to spend political capital.

I can tell you that at least in my district in Northern Virginia, we fully support the autonomy of D.C.

I urge my colleagues to support statehood for the nearly 700,000 D.C. residents.

You have exercised your rights under the First Amendment and the Ninth Amendment to petition for statehood admission, and we salute your patriotic defense of the Constitution and this body, and your embrace of nonviolent change.