Gerry Connolly

Today, on a bipartisan basis, Mr. Chabot and I are reintroducing the Global Health Security Act.

Does anyone here really believe that the amendments we are going to consider and have considered to this bill are designed to improve it?

Let us reestablish American leadership. The Paris Accords are a faint first step of what we need to do.

If you want to really toughen things up we are happy to join you. But first, we got to participate in the Paris Climate Accord or we give away all moral authority, as President Trump did.

The United States is the only country of 197 that is not a member--a signatory--to the Paris Climate Accord.

I do not think that is the choice at all in front of us.

Only the legislative branch has the right to decide on war and peace.

There is nothing more momentous and consequential in any vote we will ever cast than it is about war and peace.

The only thing keeping Guaido, President Guaido alive and safe is a threat of credible force.

The introduction of U.S. military could backfire.

I will say it is always troubling when politicians interpose themselves for science and for empirical-based policymaking when we do not like the conclusions we come up with on our own.

The military are pragmatists. We have not got time for theoretical debates. And the fact of the matter is we are seeing the consequences of something.

Even in this Administration which continues officially to deny the science of climate change, in a January 2019 DoD report, of the 79--they looked at 79 installations.

Have you seen progress since the two summits or since the adoption of those resolutions in terms of verifiable measures toward denuclearization?

The purpose of the sanctions is to deter the nuclear development program in North Korea, is it not?

Expectations were high. The South Korean President was overjoyed at the prospect of perhaps reconciliation measures in the peninsula.

I think maritime insurance is something that has been overlooked and could be a very potent tool in enforcing the sanctions Mr. Yoho just talked about.

According to the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, the U.S. intelligence community finds that North Korea will seek to retain its weapons of mass destruction capability.

Following the Hanoi summit between President Trump and Mr. Kim, we are not even close to the goal of a denuclearized North Korea.

I would absolutely advocate President Tsai addressing a Joint Session of Congress here in Washington, DC, sometime in the not-too-distant future.

Well, you might want to check with those lawyers because we have no record of your department or you submitting a report as required by law.

There's been some speculation by some members of this committee that we can't possibly have this hearing or even request documents when there's pending civil litigation.

Policies of incarceration... is just inherently unequal.

Are we not lucky that Chairman Cummings has a bill that we can all consider getting on to help us with this.

But they are not treated the same way.