Gerry Connolly

We will still be here when my colleagues are ready to step back from the extremist ledge and come to the table.

Democrats will continue to stand up for strong laws and oppose the hatred and scapegoating of immigrants.

America is not a great country in spite of immigrants. We are a great country because of immigrants.

Americans want bipartisan immigration reform. They do not want children in cages.

What those agents told us in those transcribed interviews, is it is a resource problem.

It is a huge security concern.

I must say, I am really, I cannot believe, at this point, that that's the answer of the Commerce Department of the U.S. Government.

In December 2023, the Biden Administration finalized a rule to ensure that large-scale Federal construction projects have PLAs in place.

Well, that does not sound successful.

Let's stop the lie about fentanyl and the illegal aliens bringing fentanyl.

Isn't it possible that every single one of us has an immigrant past? And yet we hear a conversation here from two of this panel who like to talk about illegal aliens.

I do not think it's practical and I do not think it will work.

Yes, I consider that an abject failure and I consider it a con job.

As to fentanyl I think it's simply wrong to blame the immigrants.

Even with immigration our population will start to decline in 2081.

America needs immigrants. If we do not have immigration our population starts to decline in 2038.

I think, underscores the point that we have got to protect the Nation's assets--supply chain, proprietary information, intellectual property, data bases, privacy.

Thank you so much, Madam Chairwoman.

Saving government money and our taxpayer dollars is 100 percent the right thing, but we also want good security.

We need to retire legacy systems. We need to make sure we are up in the 21st century.

I challenge anyone to find another Federal piece of legislation that has effectuated government savings of $30 billion.

I would just say as somebody who was a manager and had big medium-sized workforces, you know, there are jobs where I do not care whether you show up at all.

Thank God for telework, a structured program that protected people because we already had the architecture in place.

We had an unprecedented pandemic, first in 100 years. Do you remember how many American died in this pandemic?

Ronald Reagan must be turning over in his grave when he hears some of his fellow colleagues who express misgivings.