Gerry Connolly

Target African Americans with almost surgical precision

I think that's pretty material.

So a lot of your neighbors are there illegally.

We can't have people exercising illegal options, right? We all want to be within the law.

There is a role for Federal Government, there is a role for government regulation. It protects people.

The new rule would impose an eventual ban on existing nonnavigable houseboats and floating homes in 30 years.

I'm with you all the way, Mr. Johnson, on the assertion that nobody has any permanent squatting rights on public land.

I think that's a very fundamental problem.

I think it's important, in an era where all too often, we hear rhetoric about the hobnail booted government on our necks, and government can't do anything right, that's not true.

Don't get too carried away with that smaller government thing, because that's not how your region advanced.

Most are familiar with the TVA, which, by the way, was a great success story of government investment in an underperforming region during very difficult economic times.

I mean--and I--this is not a new question, because I remember--unless I'm smoking something, but at this very room, this very subcommittee, we've looked at a figure of estimates of around $50- to $60 billion.

Fraud's a different matter. Fraud, I've got to go after it.

We in Congress also need to take responsibility for our part in this.

I would love to see a--sort of a spitball strategy that says--okay. In theory, we know we can't ever get to zero.

So I'm trying to look at the whole pie. That pie is $136 billion, 43 percent are documentation error. So what percent do we think are fraud?

Congress can't have it both ways.

I have that courage. I believe my colleagues do too.

I am expecting Congress now to take a much different leadership role.

I'm tired of paying prescription drug companies and drug manufacturers and device companies to treak these issues.

I propose that maybe we need a price protection program for public health drugs, and that we need to decide a public formulary.

There's one message for us here in the public and quite another for investors.

You should foresee that just continuing as we continue to maximize the EpiPen franchise.

You virtually have a monopoly and you've used it to your advantage, but, unfortunately, it's at the expense of people who need it.

Do you understand the nature of the uproar?