Gerry Connolly

Instead, the majority is scrambling to pass at the last hour of this part of our session, just before a 7-week recess, the bill before us today. It is a farce. It is a dangerous gambit by the majority to play election-year politics at the…

It is simple, it is uncomplicated, and it is designed to show solidarity with our democratic friends struggling in the Ukraine.

You must withdraw from your illegal annexation and occupation of the Crimea.

This would dishearten them, I can assure you. This is not a signal of support. This is a retreat.

They have a democratic government. They had a revolution to get it. They overthrew the previous government because it was corrupt, it was a kleptocracy.

There is nothing in my amendment... that ties anybody's hands.

We should invite the Ukraine to do whatever it considers best for the people of the Ukraine and the Crimea.

I think that what unites Americans is that we do believe that people have a right, through the ballot box, to determine their destiny.

The proper analogy actually is the American Civil War, Mr. Rohrabacher. It was not up to the United Kingdom and France to recognize Confederate independence.

It is up to the Ukraine, I would say to my friend from California, to decide on the disposition of its own territory, not up to us and not up to Russia.

It is for Ukraine to make that decision.

I have consistently insisted, since the illegal invasion and annexation of the Crimea, that we must be clear as a bell, no ambiguity, no other conditionality.

There are international mechanisms for dispute resolution. They do not include the invasion and occupation for 8 long years of another country's sovereign territory.

We will be unwavering in insisting on the territorial sovereignty of sovereign states, whether Putin likes it or not.

You cannot have any confidence in an election when Russian troops are all over your territory.

This resolution serves as a clear and unequivocal statement in support of the sovereign territory of Georgia.

I am proud that the United States has stepped up to lead the worldwide humanitarian response effort.

This flagrant violation of international humanitarian norms must end.

The regime leverages food and water as a weapon of war.

The humanitarian crisis in Syria has reached staggering heights.

I commend the hundreds of aid workers, NGOs, and implementing partners that are on the ground risking their lives to provide food and medical care to the Syrian people.

One might conclude from what you just said that, look, this authority or strengthening this authority through new legislation is a very crude weapon.

Should one construe from the fact that the last time the head of Homeland Security provided that notification to the Department of State, Secretary of State was 15 years ago that we haven't had a problem in the interim?

This view about causing harms to third parties is something that the Supreme Court upheld 2 years ago by a majority of the Court in the Hobby Lobby case.

Protecting the religious liberty of some cannot be accomplished or purchased by sacrificing the rights and intent of others.