Gerry Connolly

I thank my friend, Mrs. Miller, for her kind remarks, and I certainly know they will be appreciated by his widow, Christina. Mr. Speaker, we have no further speakers on this side, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the…

Forty dollars to $31,000 for the same vial... how do we explain going from $40 to $31,000 for the same vial, with the same efficacy and impact on a patient, other than it got reclassified as an orphan drug?

The death of this Saudi patriot and U.S. resident is not just distasteful or unpleasant, it is murder.

The fact of the matter is, the Administration refused to invoke the Magnitsky Act to hold Saudi individuals accountable.

It would also reaffirm and ensure that the United States is in no way enabling human rights violations.

The U.S. intelligence community assessed that the Crown Prince ordered Mr. Khashoggi's murder.

He was lured into that consulate under false assurances of his own personal security, where he was murdered in cold blood and dismembered by agents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

I want to remind my colleagues that tomorrow is the second anniversary of the brutal murder and dismemberment of my constituent, Jamal Khashoggi.

When does Congress assert itself? When do we say, that goes so far we are not going to put up with it; you will pay a heavy price?

Two years ago tomorrow, my constituent and lawful U.S. resident, a journalist, mild critic of the Saudi regime--he wanted to see reform, not revolution--Jamal Khashoggi, was lured into a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, because he…

There has to be an aggressive recruitment. There has be an aggressive commitment to making the Foreign Service so that it looks like America.

One of the sort of dirty little secrets in the Nation's capital is how little diversity there actually has been historically in our Foreign Service ranks.

That is an illegal annexation and we are not going to recognize it.

I want to thank Mr. Meeks for his leadership on making sure that Russia is not invited to any G7 meeting until we see Russia's behavior significantly improve.

I also had the privilege of meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama... and was really struck with the spirit of peaceful reconciliation.

I also want to commend Mr. Yoho for H.Res.697 on Tibet.

I particularly want to commend the H.R. 1012, Ami Bera's bill, on recognizing the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.

Losing, like winning, is a passing phenomenon in politics, so be comforted.

That difference means that for an American consumer dependent on this lifesaving drug, it can cost more than $16,000 a month, and I don't think that is an appropriate cost.

That is the CEO we want to look at. We want to protect the American consumer, and if my friends on the other side of the aisle decide they don't want to do that, I think they are taking a bad step.

That ought not to be the kind of Sophie's Choice any American faces.

You would never know, listening to their narrative, that long-time drugs a hundred years old like insulin...increased and skyrocketed in price, threatening the health of American diabetics and prediabetics.

If you listen to their narrative, you would never know that 600 single-source brand name drugs...went up in price for the American consumer by 21 percent in just a two-year period between 2018 and 2020.

America's leadership and its model has mattered for generations, and we have never been perfect.

Having the president of the United States either ignore human rights discussions... is a huge problem.