Gerry Connolly

The decision by the Trump Administration to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership I also think was an enormous strategic blunder

It seems to me in the South China Sea, the only power that can counter Chinese influence is us.

Under President Xi, after all of that buildup in strength, let's assert it.

It's a reminder that there's a human face and there are real consequences to the loss of any life in this pandemic.

The priority on health and safety before we return to, quote, normalcy, unquote.

I actually agree with him that we ought to be moving toward in-person, real-time, real-life hearings.

The need to support and protect the health and safety of the Federal work force has never been more important.

The President of the United States has himself decided that he will not wear a mask.

Please stop making this a political talking point. This is about life and death.

Their priority is corporate liability. Ours is helping to save a nation. They say wait. Wait for what? The virus to stop spreading? It won't. Wait for another 36 million Americans to have to file for unemployment? Wait for another million…

I don't know what my friend from Indiana is talking about. I do know this: Thank God the Democrats insisted that this bill help the small businesses intended to be supported. Too many big guys got supported over the little guys, and that…

America is bleeding. America is in deep suffering and even deeper anxiety, and it counts on its Congress to respond with alacrity, thoughtfulness, and action. We have no time to dither. We have no time to engage in ideological or petty…

The President made patently false assertions, which Dr. Fauci corrected, about the development of the virus.

We will not be lectured about politicization and all of your words and sanctimony will not cover up the fact that this Administration was not prepared for this crisis and it put lives at risk, American lives at risk.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the Spanish influenza of 1918.

If you do not care about refugees for their own sake, for their humanity and their situation, you might want to care about it because of the spread of a viral, and I mean that in both senses, infectious disease that could affect you.

I really think this is something that deserves some attention, although there is no press here at all.

My concern is that there are unwitting victims who trusted the United States and its allies for 20 years.

Half the population of Afghanistan are called women.

I am a little worried about that.

Thank you. I share the sentiment of my friend from Florida, and that is what I am worried about.

We want to be supportive of that, but we also want to make sure it has more than a fighting chance once it takes off to be successful.

I think the online marketplace potentially is an exciting concept and has a lot of potential making us more efficient, streamlining the process, save some money for taxpayers.

Mr. Connolly. So, when I went to the White House to talk about the innovation agenda with Chris Little and Mr. Kushner...

Strike a blow for liberty. That is one.