Gerry Connolly

I certainly agree that cybersecurity is perhaps the largest growing single threat both to American infrastructure and to national security.

I am a member of the full committee. I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety and to encourage the Federal Government…

I have a statement I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety and to encourage the Federal Government to do its fair share in support of…

I listened with great interest to my friend from Florida berate you for not being here previously.

I would like to enter into the record as a long-time supporter of Metro expressing my support for management endeavors to enhance public safety.

I am not a member of the subcommittee, but I am a member of the full committee.

I would hope that all of us in the political arena would show a little bit more respect for what we are trying to do.

But to go to a rigid formula where everything is competitively bid, especially in the research field, I think could be risky, frankly, and could choke innovation unwittingly.

I would remind us of the fact that, for example, the successful crash effort to make sure the United States had the atom bomb before the Nazis was not competitively bid.

We need to be cognizant to ensure that any additional reporting requirements... avoid the imposition, however, of an unfunded mandate.

It was frankly to me a despicable thing but it became the political arena.

What is the Federal Government doing to ensure equitable distribution of grant moneys?

I commend to you Susan Collins' bill. I introduced it here in the House.

We must make sure we do not even unwittingly add to them.

Thank you for holding this hearing which might at first glance appear relatively mundane but actually raises some important questions about the disbursement of Federal funding.

I think we do need a Hatch Act to set the rules of engagement, but when you actually prohibit somebody from a personal photograph with the President because it is a re-election year, to me, that crosses the line.

So I found it was either laziness or arrogance that really terminated many of our cases.

And let me first join my colleagues in expressing my profound sympathy to the Terry family for your loss and the country's loss.

Do we have the resources? No, we don't. We desperately need them.

The Constitution does not say that. It doesn't talk about 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate.'

No legal reason to withhold it.

Thank you for having this hearing. It really is actually an intellectual feast.

The minority has rights. And if the majority wishes to actually join on this issue...

I am going to be talking to the White House and to the administration government relations officials...

Let me just say again, sadly, you're both being used, in violation of House rule 11 clause 2(j)(1)...