Gerry Connolly

There can never be accountability for the tens of thousands of innocent civilians that lay in mass graves in Syria if those responsible for their brutal torture, murder, and inhumane burial are admitted back into the international…

It is vital that the United States, including this Administration or any future Administration, not recognize the Assad regime as the legitimate government of Syria and that it never normalizes relations with this awful dictator.

Normalizing dictator Bashar Al-Assad is normalizing absolute inhumanity and depravity.

The issuance of General License 23, a blanket license that opens the door for sanctions evasion and funneling of money to the Assad regime, will do nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people.

I find it disconcerting that we are not able to ask questions of two of our witnesses.

I think you have got your work cut out for you.

Cybersecurity is a defining political, economic, and national security challenge for our time.

Well, I just say there might be--we might all have cause to say lions, tigers, and bears, oh my, but it ain't about the Biden policies. It's about the previous Administration that left a mess and that cost lives because of the decisions…

Was there a president who disparaged anyone that said it was obsolete and we probably do not really need it anymore?

Was there a president who denied Javelins, a critical part of the arsenal for Ukraine to defend itself before the war that began last February and March, over a political issue, trying to get dirt on a political opponent?

Was there a president who said that he believed the word of, you know, a sociopath, Vladimir Putin, over his own intelligence community with respect to Russian interference in American elections?

All four testified under oath they had never received a request for content moderation or takedown by the Biden White House, but they did from Donald Trump's White House.

We're fellow Americans and we're elected officials. We're trying to get at the truth, and we're trying to participate in the process of getting at the truth.

The evidence is the Trump White House most certainly attempted to control content on Twitter.

The problem was that we wanted it to get to Main Street, to the mom and pop businesses, small, minority owned, women owned, veteran owned.

We pumped $5 trillion into the economy, and it worked. We turned around the economy.

All of us have stories of loved ones, and friends, and associates who died from COVID because protocols weren't in place, vaccines weren't yet ready.

I think it is important to remember the context. Congress, in the worst pandemic in 100 years, in which people, by the way, did not allegedly die. They died. Almost a million and a half Americans are dead.

I think OPM has to reevaluate guidelines, especially in light of the fact that President Biden has said, I am, you know, vitiating the national emergency as of May.

When we talk about telework, there are two different things going on here.

I think for most of us, it should be. I don't want you hiring people who have harmed other people in a violent activity, especially when one as public as an insurrection here at the U.S. Capitol.

I look forward to follow up. I will make the point I made a little earlier.

I look forward to working with you because I think you are going down the right track.

I think it is important to remind ourselves of a little context, for example, passport services, which I would point out does not allow its staff to telework.

I assure you my friends on the other side of the aisle, probably joined by a fair number of people on this side of the aisle, are going to expect that the workplace requirements change with that change without dictating what those are.