The Census plays a critical role in our democracy, guaranteeing there will be a fair allocation of House seats in the country and House districts of equal population within each state.
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.
This Project 2025 proposal is dangerous and threatens to hurt families across Ohio and the country.
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…
The Census must be an independent, nonpolitical exercise conducted by statisticians and qualified professionals, not an arm of the political office of whichever administration happens to be in charge.
If you want to change that, you got to change the Constitution. You have got to amend the Constitution.
Disaster aid should never be declined based on support of any political candidate, and I am happy this rogue employee was fired.
Every emergency manager in the country during COVID... was worried about the politics of disaster aid changing.
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.
Emergencies should never have a party, and that disasters ought to never be partisan.
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.
J.D. Vance and other Members of Congress have continued to amplify this xenophobic lie, and it is a shame.
Under the Trump Administration, unemployment skyrocketed to nearly 15 percent.
Now, 2 weeks ago, during a bizarre debate performance, we saw, of course, the former President repeat manufactured conspiracies about immigrants.
the Biden-Harris Administration policies are all about hurting American consumers, that they are driving inflation, that they have destroyed our economy.
We have kept our asylum system so anemically underfunded that it is overwhelmed.
We need to modernize, and if we did, we would have a lot less people making this dangerous journey to access our asylum system at the border.
Now, Donald Trump's rhetoric has been dividing us and stoking anti-immigrant hate, I believe, since he first came down that escalator in 2015...
It is because some folks in Congress, and certainly Donald Trump, think that bashing immigrants will win this election.
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.





