Tom Perriello

When I came to Congress I represented a deep red district and dreamed of bipartisanship. And I was proud to retain support from Independent and Republican voters and outperform the party brand by double-digits. But the one place I found no…

That he is a lot less focused on the politics of re-election than our national resurrection to a more perfect union.

There are things more important, he told me, than getting re-elected.

What is concerning to us... is this issue about closing political space.

One of our biggest enemies here is apathy.

Fair elections don't just happen on election day. It is about the environment that is created in the months and the year ahead of an election.

There is still a window for all Burundian stakeholders to come together in a dialogue before this escalates to war.

There must be consequences when leaders deliberately exchange their country's stability for their own hold on power.

We do not support incumbents amending constitutions to stay in power as doing so undermines democratic institutions.

I rise in strong support of this amendment to give 1.5 percent in the Land and Water Conservation Fund for recreational public access, including hunting and fishing. Thirteen million hunters in the United States generate $67 billion in…

Again, I want to thank the gentleman from Tennessee and the others who have been a part of this. If we can't at least agree to take the money that agencies say they don't even want or can't even use and put that to deficit reduction, how…

I appreciate the support of the gentleman from Tennessee and his concern about the deficit. We certainly need to continue to look at the big picture with pay-as-you-go legislation and budget commissions and other ways to get it to balance…

Not to jump to the end of that story, but before we go on, I do believe when you instituted those reforms in your State, the premium rates increased at one-fifth, one-tenth of the rate of the rest of the country; is that correct?

I will take the challenge from the gentleman from Ohio and remind him of the recent NCAA soccer championship in which I believe the University of Virginia beat a team from your State, a very good team from your State.

Thank you. And before I go to the gentleman from Ohio, I think it is important to note how serious fiscal responsibility is and how serious it is for those of us, frankly, who are some of the younger Members of this body who understand…

The National D-Day Memorial remembers and preserves the lessons and legacy of D-Day, forever memorializing the lives lost on June 6, 1944.

Mr. Perriello's H.R. 2928 Bill rectifies one of the most glaring omissions of the Post-9/11 GI Bill: supporting benefits for Apprenticeships and On-The-Job Training Programs.

Our servicemembers should not have to worry whether their homes will be foreclosed or their families will be evicted while serving their country overseas.

A right that cannot be enforced is no right at all.

This is the right thing to do. Our troops have earned this.

I find it very difficult to understand why brave men and women putting their lives on the line, responding to the country's call would be charged an early termination fee when deployment, not choice, necessitates the cancelation of such…

We have an obligation to help those who have defended our country by giving them the tools they need to rejoin the civilian workforce.

The Chesapeake Bay is an unbelievable treasure for our Country, for our region and certainly for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Simply stated, taking care of our veterans means taking care of those who care for them when they are unable to care for themselves.

There are only four kinds of people in the world, those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.