Gerry Connolly

I come here as a member of this committee and subcommittee and also as the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Korea.

Other than that, we killed it. I mean, at some point the critics have to take responsibility for charges they made that have in fact not been borne out.

If we really want to do something, that is money waiting to be taken advantage of

The scandal of not taking advantage of that has cost Virginia billions of dollars of Federal money

I find it ironic. Mr. Spiro, was not the ACA absolutely modeled on a Republican Governor's health care bill in Massachusetts?

I think it is a great distortion for us to focus only on the threat from the radicalization within the Muslim community in this country or abroad.

Pursuing these kinds of blatantly political attacks undermines the integrity of our committee, the congressional process, and the constitutional rights that are supposed to protect our citizens against unsubstantiated accusations just like…

If this committee's goal were just to get Mr. Pagliano or other witnesses on the record asserting their Fifth Amendment rights, we could do that easily in a private session.

There's no legitimate reason for Republicans to force Mr. Pagliano to appear yet again before Congress just to assert his Fifth Amendment rights one more time.

This is political theatre.

Did the witness involved, the primary witness here involving these emails, did she lie? No. Did she deceive? No. Did she evade? No. Did she obfuscate? No. Did she deliberately keep or withhold relevant information requested from the FBI…

We're spending our time trying to pillory somebody about how she managed/handled her emails, while she was traveling the world on behalf of this country to 111 countries trying to restore the U.S. Credibility and foreign policy after the…

This correspondence included millions of emails written during the darkest period of America's recent history when the Bush administration was ginning up support for what turned out to be a disastrous war in Iraq with false claims that the…

This has been a very informative hearing.

I think it is just too important.

I just want to thank you for the indulgence and I think our witnesses were great.

I think we need to tread lightly. I don't think that the legislation only ought to have the imprint of the Armed Services Committee.

Thank God there were low-level people telling the President a different thing than Curtis LeMay during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I mean I heard my friend Mr. Perry talk about maybe that old system of 10 advisors is what we ought to go back to.

Frankly, how Congress is approaching this through the Armed Services Committee, not through the Foreign Affairs or Foreign Relations Committees, reminds me of H. L. Mencken.

It is unfathomable to me that a four-star commander in the field would take guidance from a staffer in the bureaucracy.

Well, first the time I went to Beijing was in 1986, and there were a lot of bicycles in Beijing.

As part of our review so far, we have seen all kinds of ridiculous outcomes. We have seen agencies disagree on classification decisions.

If we truly are concerned with preserving the entire historical record, why hasn't the committee sent a letter asking AOL to see if any of Secretary Powell's emails are recoverable?

Secretary Powell is a man I admire greatly, and I have tremendous respect for Secretary Powell and his decades of service to our nation despite the poor judgment shown in this email.