Gerry Connolly

He has--well, the President has proposed a budget cut at State and USAID of 31 percent.

Ceding, frankly, Syria to Russia and letting the Russians lead the negotiations for what comes next--you're worried about Iranian influence?

We have seen authoritarian regimes rise in Egypt and in other parts of the region and they now know that no one's going to hold them to account.

Under HHS Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole's extraordinary leadership, the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill was enacted.

In 1999, along with then-Congressman, now Senator Ed Markey, I co-founded the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's disease.

Some senior diplomats have called dismantling the Foreign Service and... Secretary Tillerson takes great exception to that.

11 is hardly a stretch goal. And I hope when you come back here, you're able to say, well, we said 11 and it's 110.

What makes me feel better about your score is you, because I think you are committed to making this happen.

I have experience both in the public sector and the private sector. If you don't set heroic goals, stretch goals, nothing happens.

I am glad for the legislation before us.

I will not defend the indefensible. The bill before us today calls out the indefensible.

There is an old saying that there is no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the trash or fill a pothole.

The administration's actions and proposed regulations are literally making it harder for Americans to receive health coverage.

I am deeply troubled by recent Trump administration actions that undermine the health protections and coverage that millions of Americans have come to depend on through the Affordable Care Act.

My constituents know that having health insurance saves lives.

Ultimately, that endangers the United States' security.

The shame of this whole situation would be, in my opinion, if a Parliament which was last elected in 2009 and has really lost any kind of momentum or legitimacy ends up being a casualty of this.

As Members of Congress and as Representatives of the American people, we here in Congress must reaffirm the values upon which our Nation was founded, especially when the Trump administration neglects to do so.

Democracy is built from the bottom up, not the top down.

The hard truth is that, when the United States does not act as a forceful advocate for those principles and our interests abroad, we leave a vacuum.

American foreign policy should reflect and promote those core values, not only because it is the right thing to do but also because it serves our national interests.

Kim Jong-un and his regime are going to pursue nuclear-tipped ICBMs at all cost because they see it as the key to the preservation of the regime.

$450 billion of taxes owed, left on the table every year.

Yes, sir. Our tax system is built on voluntary compliance.

Yes, sir. Because we don't have the resources to perform all the compliance reviews that we need to have.