Gerry Connolly

What a crime. What a terrible thing for the head of the Park Service to want to promote the Park Service on its 100th anniversary.

I'm proud to cosponsor the Information Technology Modernization Act, which would create a revolving fund for updating outdated IT systems under the bill.

This hearing is exactly the type of oversight, it seems to me, that we can agree on on a bipartisan basis.

When someone wants to block grant something or give the authority to regulate to Richmond rather than directly to the recipients, say, in my corner of the world, northern Virginia, we get nervous because formulas change and urban and…

I support the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which I think has proven to be an effectively managed program that does, in fact, reduce fraud and misuse.

I am seeking reassurance.

We have had a series of hearings where we hear the same story, and we are very worried that the Federal Government is so vulnerable.

We are not prohibited. We could entertain other sanctions for their support for Hezbollah, for example?

These arguments are, you know, to me, a smokescreen for not addressing the main issue.

I condemn it. I voted for sanctions on the other behavior.

What did the agreement address?

But the fact of the matter is --anecdotally, right?--we've had, maybe we still have, Federal agencies with multiple email systems ---- not all of which are compatible; multiple HR systems, not all of which are compatible; huge numbers of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the ranking member for his ongoing support that has allowed us to elevate this issue in this committee and actually created enormous common ground.

I want to start by commending this committee for your efforts, through MAP-21 and then the FAST Act, to create a comprehensive framework of safety standards for Metro and all of the Nation's transit systems.

The challenges facing Metro are significant, and I welcome collaboration between our two committees to ensure robust oversight over Metro's management of Federal dollars and adherence to Federal safety standards.

I felt listening to him like I was watching RT, Russian Television.

There is a serious lack of accountability or transparency at EPA when a manager is the problem.

You have asked a very, very important question, and I would just say, when we wrote FITARA, we decided to make it less prescriptive and more expansive.

Setting metrics in advance, to me, is really important.

This time, there will be a fight. And I think it will be bipartisan.

We are not going to stand for it. We will revisit this issue.

The carveout for the National Labs was an outrageous thing to do.

We can make a big difference on something that may seem deceptively uninteresting.

We were going to stick with this, and we were going to provide oversight.

This hearing is nothing but a smokescreen, yet another in a long chain of attempts by my friends on the other side of the aisle to deny what is manifestly true, that the Iran nuclear agreement is working.