Gerry Connolly

I think that their rejectionist attitude toward Kosovo is negative--more so negative for Serbia than anybody else, unfortunately.

I think that is a, false premise and b, a very dubious course for the Federal Government to follow.

Good luck, Mr. Miller, in getting a waiver from the White House for your operation.

You have to start thinking about how would I implement such a bill which could have, under worst-case scenario, a 10 percent reduction in the work force.

So why we would have a carveout for IRS, I don't know.

I have yet to find a single corporation in America that would agree with that, that just arbitrarily saying we are going to cut back 10 percent and stay there.

Sadly, this committee is headed in exactly the opposite direction. We approved legislation yesterday that would guarantee at least a 10 percent reduction in this agency and all Federal agencies.

As Tocqueville said in 1831, America is great because it is good. Once it ceases its goodness, it will cease to be great.

The Chinese Government has been rewarded for their brutality by us being silent.

They will yell and scream for a few years. And then they will come back because we are such a big piece of meat.

If he did not stop that trend, China would be set free.

I would certainly, and I know the chairman and members of the committee would, welcome any additional thoughts you might have.

So you have reason, therefore, to doubt the narrative of The New Yorker with respect to these two women?

I am deeply disturbed that we don't seem to be seized with a mission here, and until and unless we are, we are never going to solve the problem.

It is not okay to turn a blind eye to this practice. It is not okay to treat it as a bureaucratic requirement that we can check off a box because people have been trained or made more aware.

The object here is to cease the practice. It is a violation not only of human rights, but of everything America stands for.

The fact that we have five cure letters, no prosecutions, and one reference to the Justice Department, they declined to prosecute, might suggest to a layman, if not a Member of Congress, that we are not taking this subject seriously at all.

Not a single prosecution with respect to this kind of human trafficking has yet been brought by the Department of Defense against any contractor or subcontractor.

We are talking about human beings who are being forcibly recruited and lured into employment on our behalf, and you have not made it your business to go and kick the tires and check the dipstick to ascertain to your own satisfaction that…

I am sure they would be mortified to know that some of the employees of their company in other countries working for American soldiers have the possibility of being in indentured servitude.

It seems to me that the system you described in your 10-point sort of list, the weak link is the recruiting, potentially.

The laws are all in place, the policies are all in place. We have zero tolerance. And what that system has produced is zero reporting.

We have a zero tolerance policy. We have 19 laws, executive orders, and DOD memos making it very clear we frown on this practice.

We cannot and will not turn a blind eye to this practice.

Human trafficking is unacceptable under any circumstances. War does not justify it; the mission doesn't justify it.