Gerry Connolly

What could go wrong with that?

I think that is essential, and I think we need to be providing that financial support because they are willing to fight.

I think it was Frederick the Great who said, 'L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace.' One needs to be bold.

I certainly want to concur with my friend from California in his critique of the mistake by Republicans in supporting the reckless foreign policy of George W. Bush.

I think that is really important. My time is up and I thank the chair, but the default--when in doubt, we don't do it.

So there are foreign policy relations that could also be at risk because we have maybe passed a law with good intent...

If we don't like it, we can change the law.

There is no evidence of the President of the United States violating the law. That is a very grave charge.

Otherwise, we are needlessly alienating friends and partners we need in other endeavors.

Just for the record, Mr. Kerlikowske, Ms. Johnson, you aren't in some secret conspiracy to allow terrorists to come into the United States, are you?

I just think--I would hope--it would cause a very profound re-examination about the practice of jacking up prices the way Turing did with this one.

Would you agree, whatever your motivation and your altruistic instincts, that from a public relations point of view, it didn't work out so well?

Was there any discussion at the corporate level about the morality, the ethics, of that, in terms of impact on people's health and lives?

You had a reasonable expectation, did you not, that you could rely on the government to protect you and your family?

If you're so passionate and sanctimonious about holding people accountable--and God knows we have done that in the 7 years I have been on this committee--then let's have Governor Snyder at this table explaining himself.

Political choices have consequences, and Flint is the most dramatic in our generation.

Flint, arguably, one of the worst municipal environmental tragedies in the modern era in the United States, and it was manmade.

This was a State failure.

This is a tragedy. It can not be fixed. But those who did this to Flint can stand up and make it right.

We need the pipes fixed in Flint. In fact, the Governor should write a check tomorrow for the $60 million that the mayor of Flint has asked for to replace the lead service lines.

The State, to my point of view, my perspective, has a moral responsibility not to just apologize.

The State of Michigan was responsible, as the ranking member said, has primacy for the enforcement of the lead and copper rule.

I just wonder if he will indulge the panel to respond to that last point.

I would like all of you to have an opportunity if you wish, from the United States point of view, and I worry how much this causes friction in our relationship with Turkey.

I am not justifying his behavior at all, but, I mean, I think it is more that than it is culturally anti-West.