Gerry Connolly

I am prepared to allow my friend to close, and then I will close. I reserve the balance of my time.

May I inquire of the Chair how much time is remaining on both sides. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Virginia has 30 seconds remaining. The gentleman from Georgia has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I just want to say to all four of you, I have been to a lot of hearings. This is the bravest panel I have ever heard.

Lord Almighty. And here I was thinking just we are perverse and the Affordable Care Act just drove up prices mindlessly.

We do everything we can to sabotage the law, and then we are horror-struck there is gambling here at Rick's, that it has an impact on the cost of insurance.

Let's just get government right out of the way, stop regulating it, and prices will go down, and of course, cheating will stop and people won't be embezzled or defrauded with phony credentials or the credits. That logic escapes me.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: TITLE IX--ADDITIONAL PROVISION Sec…

I'm going to have to interrupt the gentleman.

Absolutely. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

One needs to be very careful. The legislative branch will not be lectured by the executive branch as to what constitutes a legitimate inquiry.

Well, you can thank Mr. Cummings. It took a Democrat to put the Republican chairman's pictures back on the wall. Sorry.

I had the opportunity to go to a demonstration outside of OPM earlier this week, and I'm sure it would come as a reassuring message to know how committed leadership is to its work force at OPM, because morale was pretty low.

I think he makes a really good point. Two things. One is, aside from even suspicious thinking, and I freely confess we have some of that, it is a complete puzzlement that the FBI could, with a straight face, walk away from a rationale it…

We have a total of 524 pages, almost none of them responsive to the direct request we've made.

If you will not provide those documents willfully, willingly, we will issue subpoenas to compel them.

The legislative branch will not be lectured by the executive branch as to what constitutes a legitimate inquiry.

Congress must obtain the documents necessary to fulfill our constitutional responsibilities. Stop obstructing us.

It's a reckless proposal that lacks merit, justification, or a coherent rationale.

Yes. That's what I thought.

Thank you, Chairman.

Do you believe that we have critical mass that this fund as currently funded is viable or, put differently, can actually make a difference, be the catalyst we intended it to be for people to retire legacy systems?

I think, again, both Mr. Meadows and I know Mr. Hurd if he were here and Ms. Kelly if she were here, our experiences, especially in bureaucracies--and I don't mean that in a pejorative way, but big, large organizations who you report to…

The intent of the law was always to identify how many datacenters we had, which was a struggle, and then cut them in half

Thank you so much. Let me begin. Ms. Harris, we're here to talk about the implementation of a law, correct?

Diversity, as we know, is a unique source of strength for America, our economy, and our national security.