Gerry Connolly

It needs to be rooted out, stamped out, and ended. That is as fundamental an American value and a human rights value as exists on this planet.

But we are in this system that protects itself. Not the victims.

Taking away human autonomy is perhaps the most abhorrent crime imaginable, and it occurs with murder and it occurs with human trafficking.

I don't get to represent them, but our first witness does. You may recall his concern for poor communities bearing this brunt.

I think maybe you were out of the room when I entered into the record a list of coal-fired power plants right now that would in fact fully meet the standard.

Why did it take 21 years, then, to implement the law passed in 1990, signed into law by a Republican President?

A court told you you had to.

The previous administration tried doing what the chairman suggested: Why not just settle for a lower level? And a court of law said 'not good enough'

This notion that the hobnail-booted government is going to destroy industry and consumers and cut off the source of electricity in the United States is a false premise

I have got four coal-fired power plants that are fully compliant today.

Frankly, when a State seeks to preempt Federal law and to argue on its own that that law is, in advance, unconstitutional, is 'nullification' by any other sense of the word.

Many of the rate increases he's referring to occurred subsequent to the reregulation legislation passed by the General Assembly of Virginia.

The proposition here is that, should this regulation go into effect, it would have devastating effects both on sources of electricity and on jobs.

About a third of the air pollution in this region is attributed to those migrating pollution sources.

It's a shame that the committee majority shows so little interest in legislation that might promote technological innovation and improve management of Federal information technology.

We face a tough circumstance in that we are withdrawing from Iraq.

I would hope that we would do all we could for rural Sindh that is suffering from this year's floods.

I continue to have reservations about efforts to reconcile with the Taliban and al-Qaeda-affiliated groups.

I support the President's decision to withdraw all combat troops by 2014.

America cannot afford a course of isolation and retreat.

I think it would be a terrible mistake to slash our economic assistance to Pakistan.

I support the administration's decision to pause security assistance to Islamabad until Pakistan shows real progress in combating terrorist groups.

This behavior must stop.

I am deeply concerned about our rapidly deteriorating relationship with Islamabad and how that impacts our efforts in Afghanistan.

What is our strategic interest here?