Gerry Connolly

The brutal murder of Khashoggi...was a rebuke to the values for which America stands.

We must always ensure human rights are at the forefront of our foreign policy.

The unbelievable and despicable murder of my constituent, an American resident, Jamal Khashoggi, and the dismemberment of it, and the word impunity comes to mind.

It is a priority of mine that we work to elevate the voices of civil society who want democracy and the rule of law.

There has got to be integrity.

The Haitian people must have confidence in an election.

We have to have free and fair elections that involves everyone.

There is clearly a lot of work to be done and we are going to need to stay focused on Haiti.

I thank my friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I will remind my friend on the other side of the aisle, the God-given right every one of us has, according to the Declaration of Independence, is life, and that is what we are arguing about here…

The new President recommended $10 billion, $9 billion of which would go to the Technology Modernization Fund precisely to serve as sort of seed capital and the catalyst to retire those legacy systems, some of which are 40 and 50 years old…

All the gaslighting that we just heard does not change facts. I didn`t vote to overturn an election. And I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship.

I believe in the power of truth and facts. And I believe calling out their fabrications, their alternate reality that is delusional and deliberately designed to persuade people to believe what they say, not what they see and know -- which…

It was Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, who was planting the idea aided and abetted by disruptive changes proposed by a new postmaster general and a compliant board of governors that actually eroded the public confidence in the…

I will not be lectured by people who did about partisanship.

But I think there are a lot of Republicans from rural America who most certainly do care, because of the very point you just made.

You fool around with that at your own peril politically.

Certainly, I believe there ought to be a thorough examination of his behavior and his actions that led to the disruption and delay of mail.

The ratio of Federal workers to American citizens right now is the lowest it's been since 1960.

Eighty percent of the employees--of the voters in my district did not vote for the outgoing President.

Thank God, that President Biden has overturned the executive order, but I hope to engage you, Mr. Hoyer, in codifying the legislative role.

I've heard nothing but complaint about the way that the last administration undermined the Federal workforce at every turn.

I think that is really important because some would have us believe that this is no different than previous policy, and your own report finds quite the opposite. It was a drastic change in previous policy and deliberate.

I want to reserve my outrage for the fact that the United States of America found itself putting children in cages and deliberately using children as pawns to separate them from their families for an ideological commitment to a rigid…

The dangers of addiction understated.

Thank you for holding this hearing.