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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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Dec 4, 2024

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.

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Dec 4, 2024

This Project 2025 proposal is dangerous and threatens to hurt families across Ohio and the country.

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Dec 4, 2024

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…

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Dec 4, 2024

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.

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Dec 4, 2024

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

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Nov 18, 2024

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

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Nov 18, 2024

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

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Nov 18, 2024

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.

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Nov 18, 2024

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

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Nov 18, 2024

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

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Nov 13, 2024

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.

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Nov 13, 2024

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…

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Nov 13, 2024

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.

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Sep 24, 2024

J.D. Vance and other Members of Congress have continued to amplify this xenophobic lie, and it is a shame.

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Sep 24, 2024

I strongly support legal immigration because we are a Nation of immigrants.

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Sep 24, 2024

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

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Sep 24, 2024

Now, 2 weeks ago, during a bizarre debate performance, we saw, of course, the former President repeat manufactured conspiracies about immigrants.

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Sep 24, 2024

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

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Sep 24, 2024

We have kept our asylum system so anemically underfunded that it is overwhelmed.

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Sep 24, 2024

We have to fix that. That is the reality.

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Sep 24, 2024

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.

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Sep 24, 2024

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...

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Sep 24, 2024

It is because some folks in Congress, and certainly Donald Trump, think that bashing immigrants will win this election.

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Sep 24, 2024

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

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Sep 24, 2024

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

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