Gerry Connolly

The bottom line, Mr. Chairman, is that our Federal civil servants are like any other workforce. More than 900,000 of those Federal employees earn less than $60,000 a year. They are not rich. They are not living high on the hog. They…

Those disagreements should not descend into personal animosity.

I hope to continue our longstanding tradition of bipartisan cooperation to advance American interests around the world.

I believe that the same thing will be true of Mr. McCaul and myself.

If Medicare were allowed to have that true competition, would it drive down prices significantly?

We're talking about insulin. Insulin's been around since 1921. Can you think of any reason why the prices of insulin, a commonly used drug for 100 years, has skyrocketed so much?

The choice is human health and safety versus an exorbitant profit I don't really need.

I do want to take a moment to clarify a conversation we had here on the floor last week on sanctions legislation against Mr. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch. My remarks were passionate and aimed at the administration's proposed policy to…

Apparently, it does to the Trump administration, which has agreed to lift sanctions on three of his companies in exchange for Deripaska dropping his ownership stake from 70 to 44.95, never mind that the new chairman of United Company…

There's nothing in the constitution that says a president cannot be indicted.

I believe that if there's evidence certainly the violation of law, I think we took a constitutional oath to protect the constitution, including from a chief executive who has committed a criminal act.

I would go to the max to ensure the administration complied with court orders and threatened jail time for officials who resisted subpoenas.

We didn't go along with it because we actually see the primacy of the relationship and the fact that is the world's fastest-growing market.

One must be very careful about preserving the integrity and good name of the United States.

How are we going, moving forward, to hold the Crown Prince and the Saudi government responsible for one of the most grisly episodes ever to occur in a consulate or an embassy in our diplomatic experience?

Is there ever a time when we are going to, as a country, insist, you know what, we are not going to do business as normal and we are going to hold you to account?

At what point, as Americans, do we insist that the inalienable rights enumerated in our Declaration of Independence, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, all three of which were denied my constituent, Mr. Khashoggi, when do they…

This hearing should never even be taking place today, with all the priorities that we have at stake right now.

They don't give a damn about them.

I could not disagree with Mr. Zeldin of New York more. By ripping up a nuclear agreement with Iran, negotiated with our allies, that was working, and negotiated with our adversaries, China and Russia, it was actually working.

So since you both helped write laws, when Congress passes a law and the President signs it, like he did CAATSA--and I will remind you the vote was overwhelming. Ninety-eight to two in the Senate and 419 to 3 here in the House.

So it's mandatory. It's binding. So why then would the sanctions that are mandatory in that law--why are Sections 225, 226, 227, 228, 233, and 234 not yet invoked?

This committee has by and large seen and heard no evil when it comes to this President.

The camera of history is rolling. We do not live in a time where Congress can just sit back.

Is there any line he can cross that might merit your ire?