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Gerry Connolly

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Gerry Edward Connolly is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia's 11th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, Connolly has focused on various issues including government accountability, environmental protection, and healthcare reform. He has served on several committees, including the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, where he has been involved in investigations and legislation related to federal oversight and transparency.

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Sep 28, 2022

It's complicated. It's not as simple as you would have us believe, Dr. Wubbenhorst.

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Sep 28, 2022

In Nebraska, a 34-year-old woman's water broke before the fetus developed lungs.

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Sep 28, 2022

As we speak, women all over Iran are protesting against the suppression of their rights under the regime of the ayatollah. And here we are debating how much we should suppress women's rights. What an irony.

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Sep 28, 2022

In South Carolina, a 19-year-old came to the emergency room after her water broke, after just 15 weeks of pregnancy.

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Sep 28, 2022

I thank the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney), the distinguished chairwoman of the committee and my friend, and I thank the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Comer), the distinguished ranking member and my friend for bringing…

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Sep 28, 2022

I thank the distinguished chairwoman of our committee for yielding, and I thank Mr. Comer, the ranking member, and Mr. Hice, the ranking member of Government Operations Subcommittee, for their support and collaboration on an improved H.R…

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Sep 15, 2022

President Trump's schedule F would send our Nation back to 1881 when President Garfield was shot by a man who believed the support of the President should have earned him a political partisan position in the Federal Government. Congress…

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Sep 15, 2022

I thank my good friend, the chairwoman of the full committee, for yielding. I have to say, when he cites that our Founders never envisioned a large government, that is true--there were 13 colonies that became 13 States. I will remind my…

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Sep 15, 2022

I include in the Record two articles: an editorial in the Washington Post endorsing this bill and delineating the issue, and an article in Newsweek doing the same. [From the Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2022] Opinion: Congress Must Prevent…

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Sep 15, 2022

I thank my friend, the chairwoman of the committee, for yielding. I must say, the innuendos, the negative characterization, the smears, if not slanders, launched against Federal employees in general on the floor today would come as news…

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Sep 14, 2022

I thank the distinguished chairwoman of our committee for yielding time. I hardly think President Donald Trump drained the swamp. He filled it with alligators. I rise today in support of H.R. 2988, the Whistleblower Protection Improvement…

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Sep 6, 2022

that's unacceptable to this subcommittee, to Members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle.

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Sep 6, 2022

the time of pickup of mail had been changed.

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Sep 6, 2022

I want to say thank you to Congressman Fitzpatrick regarding his service as an FBI agent.

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Sep 6, 2022

We're not going to be able to arrest our way out of this issue. I've heard a lot about prevention...

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Sep 6, 2022

The Postal Reform Act that was passed into law this year after 16 long years of struggle was a bipartisan bill.

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Sep 6, 2022

Thank you very much for the question. Arrow keys are access devices to be able to get into various repositories for United States mail.

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Sep 6, 2022

People have to know there is a cost if their caught that we're going to be aggressive about this.

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Sep 6, 2022

Well, you might at least concede there ought to be a policy if there isn't one?

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Sep 6, 2022

But our focus is on the impact on consumers. We're trying to regularize service and make sure it's predictable and certain and reliable.

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Jul 29, 2022

I thank the gentleman for yielding time. We face two choices today in this body. One is to protect our children, to protect our houses of worship, to protect where we shop, to protect where we watch a movie from guns that exist for one…

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Jul 27, 2022

I am concerned as a Member of Congress, as someone who wrote this bill, that we are not capturing the progress.

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Jul 26, 2022

What are we to take from that message, Mr. Busse?

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