Gerry Connolly

But on the other hand, it almost invites some people, politically, to seize on that and say, Good, that's how we're going to fund the government.

I think we have to look at that, Mr. Berteau.

Federal contractors and their families should not be penalized for a government shutdown they did nothing to cause.

President Trump used nearly 800,000 Federal employees as pawns in what I consider to be a ruthless attempt to fulfill a wrong-headed political promise.

H.R. 1 would take significant amounts of the decisionmaking of how we apply and how we exercise our voting from the state and move it to the Federal level.

Despite this constitutional authority, the majority wishes to exert more Federal bureaucracy over each state's authority over local elections.

I think that the Chief Justice was correct in the ruling in Shelby, and I think that it is correct that the Voting Rights Act preclearance requirement that that case addressed, being based wrongly on at that time 40-plus-year-old data…

The fact that such behavior is not illegal should be a call for Congress to act.

I wish I could believe that. I have got to wonder why the Administration will not meet the challenge head-on.

We are being outplayed around the world and here on our home court.

I renew my demand that the Russian government end this charade and release Paul Whelan back to his family.

For all these reasons, Congress has consistently appropriated dedicated federal funding for WMATA, recognizing the special responsibility the federal government must help 'America's Subway' fulfill these functions safely and reliably.

That is why I have introduced, along with members of the DC-area delegation, the Metro Accountability and Investment Act (MAIA).

Thank you to Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves for hosting a Member Day to hear from Members on their transportation and infrastructure priorities.

We have never had a better partner on the other side of the aisle on postal reform than Mr. Meadows.

I believe that we can pass similar legislation again, and take it to the floor of the House to get it passed this year.

We must not place the burden of reforming the Postal Service on the backs of the Postal workers.

And I hope that all of us, whether it is you in your community or us here serving our country in the House of Representatives, that we make our decisions based on what side of history do we want to be on for our kids, our grandkids, and…

I often talk about climate change. We can debate about how severe it will be or how fast it will come, but we can't debate any longer that it is coming.

I believe that is -- that is one potential option. I hope it doesn't come to that. We haven't done it since the 1870s, apparently, but that is a latent power of Congress.

I believe anyone who defies a legitimately issued subpoena by the Congress of the United States puts himself or herself in enormous legal peril, and that can include fines, contempt of Congress, civil pursuit in courts of law, and possible…

In the 140 pages of the President's international affairs budget, he mentions climate change once, and only once.

But we cannot help it by cutting the program in half. And I commend to you a reevaluation of that.

Yes, you can even win an election without winning most of the votes.

The President's budget would gut democracy promotion funding by more than half.