Gerry Connolly

Could those budget counts conceivably have an impact on your ability to do the enumeration you are required to do by the Constitution?

If you want to change that, you got to change the Constitution. You have got to amend the Constitution.

It does not say 'American citizen.'

Instead of threatening to add a citizenship question to the Census, which experts have warned will depress participation, we should support the Census Bureau in fulfilling the clear mandate of counting the whole number of persons in each…

Instead of cutting funding for the Bureau, as House Republicans have tried to do this year and years past, we need to make sure it has the resources it needs to conduct the planning and preparatory work that are essential to a truly…

Emergencies should never have a party, and that disasters ought to never be partisan.

No FEMA Administrator will tell you while they are FEMA Administrator... but the last two Trump Administrators will tell you... that Homeland has become too big.

I expect that we are going to work together on this.

Every emergency manager in the country during COVID... was worried about the politics of disaster aid changing.

Disaster aid should never be declined based on support of any political candidate, and I am happy this rogue employee was fired.

We must ask ourselves whether our efforts over the past 2 years have fulfilled the objective of constructively improving our Nation's ability to prevent and prepare for the future pandemics on the issues that matter most.

Whether it was allegations that Dr. Fauci caused and covered up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic or that our Nation's public-health officials sought to keep schools and businesses closed, more than half a million pages of…

But instead of taking steps forward to prevent and prepare our Nation for future pandemics, this Select Subcommittee has spent 2 years fanning the flames of people's mistrust in public health and taking advantage of their fears.

It seems to me the FBI has always been a fairly conservative culture and certainly a right-of-center political bent.

I find it almost humorous to hear characterizations of the FBI as this hotbed of liberal, if not leftist ideology.

So, while we are bemoaning the alleged mistreatment of certain individuals, including some here today, which may or may not be true, we are escalating it with actual threats that could lead to violence, even death.

I would just ask, Mr. Chair, if we could stick to some decorum and not disparage witnesses or characterize their testimony.

This is not pre-1990s apartheid South Africa, the country of your birth. This is America and there are more of us Americans that love our diversity, our rule of law, than there are of you who would like us all to be sycophants to your ego.

The outcome of hearings of this Committee has supported my claim that from the very beginning of the creation of this Select Subcommittee that his has been the gaslighting to the ninth degree, a tremendous projection of the highest order

There has been no evidence to show that the Federal Government and particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, or the Department of Justice has been wholly weaponized against the right.

Under the Trump Administration, unemployment skyrocketed to nearly 15 percent.

During the Trump Administration, he advocated for the largest tax giveaway in American history to the wealthiest individuals and large corporations.

The exact opposite is true. We have seen over the course of the Biden-Harris Administration that they inherited an economic mess.

The United States has amongst the lowest inflationary rates of any industrialized country in the world right now.

The Biden-Harris Administration policies are all about hurting American consumers, that they are driving inflation, that they have destroyed our economy.