Gerry Connolly

To victims of sexual violence, we see your struggle. We hear your cries for help, and we stand in solidarity with you all.

Marking up this bill today sends a strong and clear message to Moscow.

This bill would give the President the ability to take into consideration Russia's violations to religious freedom.

I support Chairman Deutch's House Res. 458, reaffirming the strong partnership between Tunisia and the United States.

We need to be prepared. We need to have a locus in the National Security Council in the White House that is charged with that responsibility.

I think in retrospect that was an unwise move.

We are in the midst of what may very well turn out to be a pandemic, the coronavirus.

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your support, in particular, of the Global Health Security Act.

If you don't want to talk about voter suppression and voter participation, you got to distract public attention with something else.

If we start with the Constitution of the United States, the first thing we should be concerned about is protecting the sacred franchise of the right of every American to be able to vote.

If you read about the Irish famine, which was an early form of genocide, a third of the population of Ireland died.

It is a privilege to co-sponsor.

Thanks for your patience and waiting.

The idea that someone is poor because they made bad choices, or they embrace poverty as a choice is a very convenient way of ignoring reality.

We must look at where our children live and what they need because we cannot go another year with kids not getting food that they need; not--losing parents because they cannot afford healthcare. This is a moral wrong.

I find it particularly disturbing that this administration fights for tax breaks for the more fortunate while it seeks to take food literally from the mouths of hungry children by proposing to cut the SNAP program.

Today we commence a series of four hearings that will lay bare the Trump administration's attempts to gut regulations and programs that protect the health and welfare of our Nation's children.

Well, as I indicated earlier, as you know, Ms. Norton, Mr. Cummings, the late Mr. Cummings, and I have a bill that would at least allow some administrative action by the attorney until there's a board member confirmed so that we eat into…

Let me tell you, if that happens, because of who the whistleblower was talking about, we have jeopardized the entire protection of every whistleblower going forward.

I would like to have Mr. McGahn. I would like to have Mr. Bolton. I'd like to have Mr. Mulvaney.

This is a sad and, for me, dangerous moment for whistleblower.

A whistleblower who reported a reasonable belief about a Presidential misconduct has become the target of the President's wrath.

We hold this hearing at a critical moment in our Nation's history.

I have a lot of respect for the ranking member, Mr. Wilson, who is also my friend, but when he talks about praising the President's peace with strength strategy, I would argue the opposite.

Look, we can all agree that Qasem Soleimani was a horrific human being who was detrimental to U.S. national security interests, period, full stop.