Gerry Connolly

Do not hold UNFPA responsible for what a sovereign country does, as obnoxious as it is, unless you have an allegation of advocacy and support that has not yet been presented.

A human rights violation is a human rights violation, irrespective of status.

Picking on the UNFPA as an easy target, irrespective of the fact that its record is clean, and what it is doing to protect women and women's health is essential.

This is nothing short of a smear campaign against an international organization of which we are a member that promotes and protects the health of women and their children all over the world.

Fistula can be completely repaired up to 90 percent of the time if survivors have access to a trained surgeon.

I would hope she could support this amendment.

Rather than lobbing another grenade in our culture wars, this committee should be working to strengthen maternal mortality prevention efforts.

UNFPA does not promote abortion as a method of family planning period.

The State Department in the last administration... found, 'no evidence, no evidence that UNFPA has knowingly supported or participated in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization in the People's…

I commend my colleagues, Mr. Smith of New Jersey and the ranking member, Mr. Berman of California, for introducing H.R. 2830.

I think we need to really be careful as we move this bill forward so that we do not compromise the objectives...

If you want to prevent abortions, this is what we should be doing. And that is exactly what UNFPA does.

One in every 47 pregnancies in Haiti turns fatal during delivery.

That needs to be dealt with.

That's ridiculous. And as I said before, it's insulting to the Taiwanese people and that ought to be changed.

The restrictions on diplomatic visits by high-level Taiwanese officials to the United States are in my mind both counterproductive and in fact, insulting to the Taiwanese people.

I can say with certainty that you are much admired in Taiwan for your friendship and your tireless support of democracy in the region and around the world.

I was just in Taiwan. I didn't meet a single defense official, from the President on down, who said no, no, no.

The interest of the United States is the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait

I hope that the Obama administration... would reconsider its decision not to allow the sale of the F-16 C/D fighter jet to Taiwan.

This committee, I think, unanimously adopted the Connolly-Berman Amendment that called on the administration, in fact, to honor the request of Taiwan.

There's nothing in the Taiwan Relations Act about that

It's not just peace and stability in the Straits, it is explicit in the statutory commitment to the defense capability of Taiwan?

We are committed by statute to the defense of Taiwan, are we not?

The U.S.-Taiwan relationship is a very important one. It's our ninth largest trading partner.