Gerry Connolly

Franklin Delano Roosevelt still deferred to that Article 1 power before he engaged with Hitler.

Although as recently as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, people forget he asked Congress to declare war against Japan after Pearl Harbor.

I do think that over the past 16 years that Congress' failure to update the AUMF has allowed the executive branch, or really required the executive branch, to undertake interpretations of the AUMF that have been, as a result, controversial.

Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution states Congress shall have the power to declare war and to raise and support armies and other armed forces.

What you have just said, if we acted on would be an unprecedented delegation of power to the executive.

I would contend, with respect, that there are serious implied powers in Article 1 and that it is not the purview of the executive branch to determine on its own the constitutionality of any circumspection or circumscribing with respect to…

In 1996, this region--the national capital region--had more than 60 orange ozone days, ozone layers that were hazardous to health, warnings given to people. Last year, we had 6, one-tenth of that number. And that is because of the Clean…

This would raise concerns in any administration. But for me, it's downright frightening in this administration.

Nothing is more catastrophic, starting with the retreat from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It creates an enormous void in this region and gives enormous opportunities to our rival, China.

I hardly think America is back. I think in the brief 6 or 7 months of this administration we have done nothing but retreat including from this area.

I also think it was an enormous retreat and again gave the Chinese in this part of the world an enormous diplomatic advantage in withdrawing unilaterally from the Paris Climate Accord.

This is a dictator who has said, have at it, vigilante violence, and I think the number I think is 7,000 dead that we know of.

We are now in the happy company of two countries exactly--Nicaragua and Syria. What a proud moment for the United States.

No civilized nation can kidnap somebody visiting that country with impunity, indefinitely, and with no cause.

I think it is also important... we have to be consistent.

I thank my good friend for yielding. I rise to remind us that Martin Luther King once said: ``Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.'' We are all in this together. The idea that we can cherry-pick whose rights we will proclaim…

I am not asking the others of you to take a position on what your state should do, but I am asking you whether or not you think Ban the Box legislation has been useful.

Many of us have heard really poignant stories about someone who has been out of jail for 10 or 20 or even more years.

Perhaps the most important issue for someone coming out of prison is the challenges he faced in finding employment.

I want to offer my congratulations to Chairman Gowdy, and I want to thank him for his first hearing.

To zero out UNICEF seems to be to be something that is not a particularly proud value that Americans would uphold.

Sounds like a country we ought to be supporting, not cutting back in.

I have had the privilege of going to Taiwan 23 times since 1988.

You would never know that Donald Trump is under investigation and his campaign is under investigation because of his ties and their ties to Russia.

To call this an elevated involvement in the world would embarrass even George Orwell.