Gerry Connolly

Yes, sir. I would say any reduction in resources... has had a material effect on the quality of services by the IRS.

The idea that there's no relationship... is an absurd proposition, and I don't think any sensible American will buy into it.

The IRS has suffered severe and repeated budget cuts since 2010.

I support the JCPOA. Its goal was quite focused on one thing, pushing Iran back from the nuclear threshold as a nuclear threshold state.

To denigrate this agreement as if it hadn't achieved something quite fundamental... is a disservice to the agreement.

We will damage the credibility of the United States that hosted this agreement.

I would propound that, actually, the existential threat to Israel is less on a nuclear basis today than it was when he gave that speech.

Iran has flouted the ballistic missile provisions of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231.

Less than 2 weeks ago, President Trump announced that he would not certify the Iran deal under the requirements of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.

All signs leading up to the certification deadline pointed to decertification.

Do Boris and Natasha operating from the dacha in the outskirts of Moscow, trying to corrupt American democracy... do they have the unfettered First Amendment rights that anybody else does in the United States?

What could be more sacred than protecting everyone's franchise and the integrity of that process in a democracy?

I find it a remarkable moment in our democracy when so many up here apparently can see and hear no evil when it comes to Russian interference with the American election process.

And therefore we have a right to protect ourselves from Boris and Natasha?

I am very happy that the name of Frank Wolf was resurrected in today's hearing.

Reports of religious persecution and intolerance in Russia are not at all surprising, considering the impunity with which the Russian Government continues to conduct itself on the world stage.

I strongly believe that the State Department should accept the Commission's recommendation and add Russia to the designation list.

I met with the head of the military as well as Aung San Suu Kyi.

Sometimes we have to be careful, but when we are looking at the kind of tragedy we are looking at here, it seems to me speaking with clarity actually is an important tool of diplomacy, not fuzzifying it with other kinds of descriptions…

When 800,000 people of a particular ethnic background are living in a neighboring country because they have been forcibly removed from their villages, I would call that ethnic cleansing, you know, pretty clear and simple.

I consider it an embarrassment that the United States is closing ours.

If they go forward with the Trump recommendation, you are talking about a 32-percent cut to the State Department NAID.

Mr. Engel and I wrote a letter in November asking the State Department to implement all of your recommendations.

I don't want to accept that.

The decision, for example, to rip up the Paris Climate Accord, was that evidence-based?