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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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Apr 27, 2022

Thank you for all you're doing for the Ukrainian people.

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Apr 27, 2022

I thank my friend again for his leadership and bipartisanship on this bill. I think it is a very important bill because Russia is spreading its malign influence all over the world, and it is having a particular impact in the African…

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Apr 27, 2022

I thank my friend for his leadership and bipartisanship on this important bill. I really can't add to the eloquence of our friend and colleague from New York (Mr. Espaillat). Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this important and…

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Apr 27, 2022

I think this is an important piece of legislation in trying to contain the malign activities of the Iranian Government especially in a critical region, critical to us and critical to the world. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support…

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Apr 27, 2022

So maybe one could say people who say they do not want a nuclear Iran but are opposing the revival of a nuclear agreement... might actually unwittingly... be achieving the very opposite is what is desired.

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Apr 27, 2022

Again, I thank my friend for his leadership and bipartisanship on this critical piece of legislation. I think it is timely. I think it is urgent. I urge my colleagues to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The…

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Apr 27, 2022

I thank my friend for his support. And I think it is very important that there be a clarion statement from this Congress, not only about Ukraine, but about other nations that are threatened by Russian aggression; Georgia and Moldova are…

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Apr 27, 2022

Did they allow inspections, including unannounced inspections of facilities that the monitoring group felt they needed to inspect?

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Apr 27, 2022

They did not, that's a fact. They met the terms of the agreement.

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Apr 27, 2022

Would it be fair to say that perhaps, some causation, because of that 4 years' sustained effort by the U.S. Government under the Obama Administration, Iran might have been motivated to come to the negotiating table that ultimately led to…

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Apr 27, 2022

Iran says yes, we'll do this, understanding that it pushes them further away from the development of a nuclear weapon.

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Apr 26, 2022

Well, certainly, the opioid crisis began with the presidency of Joe Biden, right? I mean, President Biden, we have to lay this squarely at his feet.

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Apr 20, 2022

It is just not right that the super-rich are evading their taxes while the average American pays their fair share.

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Apr 6, 2022

It is very easy to feel that your group is somehow being unfairly targeted and made a victim.

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Apr 6, 2022

We do have a kind of a tension or a balance in our public schools and, by the way, our public universities too, between individual freedom and democracy.

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Apr 6, 2022

We are going to advance the First Amendment values that all of us hold dear, if we can step a little bit beyond our own sense of grievance.

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Apr 5, 2022

The People's Republic of China should take note, it must be held accountable for its many violations of sovereignty and international law in the Himalayas, the South China Sea, the East China Sea.

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Apr 5, 2022

I thank my good friend from Ohio for his leadership. He is the former President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, as well, and he has provided unwavering support for America's leadership in this alliance and for the alliance itself. And…

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Apr 5, 2022

the Chinese Communist Party and the PRC has spent years promoting the lie that Taiwan is part of the PRC which it is absolutely not part of China nor has it ever been.

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Apr 5, 2022

Today, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to dominate the region and push the U.S. military out through military expansion and debt trap diplomacy.

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Apr 5, 2022

Soon I will be introducing the Taiwan Deterrence Act to stand up a security assistance program for Taiwan.

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Apr 5, 2022

I think this is a really important resolution. It is also timely because, as Mr. Boyle indicated, we have our next NATO Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Athens this weekend; and if we are going to have input to the strategic concept of…

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Apr 5, 2022

How can this Administration continue to argue that any weapon system for Ukraine is escalatory or provocative?

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