Gerry Connolly

If you get in a vicious cycle where we cut back services and raise costs--raise prices, you lose more customers, requiring you to cut back on services and raise more costs.

I want to commend Chairman Chaffetz and Ranking Member Cummings for their leadership in holding together this coalition.

I think your willingness to state the case but also be flexible in trying to find solutions...

We have to do something or we are going to lose the Postal Service as we know it.

As noted, Congressman, this bill, as proposed, would generate over $26 billion over a five-year period in new revenue and cost-savings.

So they're not into fake news yet.

What does this tell us about security stability in the regime?

It is, indeed, a Commonwealth, one of four.

I completely share your point of view. As somebody who is strong supporter of Israel, I worry about the future.

Aggressive expansion of settlements way beyond the environments of suburban Jerusalem is not only a provocative act, it is, potentially, a destabilizing act.

Abandoning a two-state solution I guarantee you will not make that better.

The President is one million percent wrong.

We want to know how security clearances are handled if the existing clearance holders or new applicants are under criminal investigation.

We do not know how much General Flynn was paid for this event and for his dinner with President Putin.

This committee has a long history of strong bipartisan support for those whistleblowers, and I want to thank the chairman, Mr. Meadows, for holding today's hearing to examine how we can continue to improve protections for those employees.

Federal employees who blow the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse are on the front lines in the effort to ensure that our government functions efficiently and effectively.

Without additional resources, these whistleblowers won't be protected; in fact, one hears descriptions at TSA that sound like the Wild West.

Last year, a Federal court ruled that an employee who refused to obey an order is protected from retaliation only if that order violates a statute, which was never the intent of the law.

There's actually history here, going back to 36 years, in terms of trying to make sure we're not politicizing or wholesale removing and replacing inspectors general.

It was never intended, however, that the inspectors general be automatically replaced on a wholesale basis without regard to their individual merits whenever there is a change in administration.

My friend from California wants to minimize what just occurred, and I understand that from his point of view. But there's nothing trivial about getting six or seven phone calls to individual inspectors general--including yourself, Mr…

Health care should not be a privilege, it must be a right.

Repealing without replacing is foolhardy and reckless. What House Republicans have proposed so far inspires little trust that their plans will actually help Americans.

There is nothing that I have done that has been more important than pulling that lever for the Affordable Care Act.

Repealing the ACA would also have disastrous effects on our economy.