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In June 2022, members of the Godines and Everts families were driving to their home in Gillette, Wyo. Traveling behind the family on I-25 as they passed Greeley, Colo. was a freight truck carrying mail on a contract with the U.S. Postal Service. The truck’s brakes were out of alignment, it was uninsured, and its driver did not have a commercial driver’s license. The truck slammed into the… Read more »

A central part of Donald Trump’s plan should he return to the White House is to dismantle the “deep state,” getting rid of the federal government workers who might stand in the way of his broader agenda. Allies of those civil servants are already gearing up for a fight. With nearly a year left until next fall’s election, President Joe Biden’s administration, lawmakers and advocacy… Read more »

By Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) Opining on the fate of the Mountain Valley Pipeline—a gas project that would run through our home state of Virginia—your editorial “Judges for Legal Disobedience” (July 12) criticizes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for refusing to honor “proper orders” from Congress. As lawmakers who were active in… Read more »

Faith leaders, activists and elected officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, took part in a community conversation Friday about how to reduce gun violence. The discussion was hosted by U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey McKay, and state Sen. Jennifer Boysko. According to Every Town For Gun Safety, nearly 1,000 people in Virginia and more… Read more »

Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security. If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of… Read more »

Democrats are sending a former Trump impeachment lawyer and several longtime oversight members to sit on the newly created Republican-led House subcommittee investigating the "weaponization" of the federal government. Why it matters: The weaponization committee will be a highly visible vehicle for Republicans to probe the Justice Department and FBI after a series of… Read more »

We learned this week that a Republican-controlled House could very well move to oppose continued U.S. military aid to Ukraine. In response, a few voices have arisen — including ones from inside the Biden administration — to insist that in the end a GOP House would of course do the right thing and keep that aid going. But even if Biden aides are professing confidence about continuing… Read more »

The recent draconian decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has unleashed a crisis of legitimacy at the Supreme Court. For the first time, the American people are grappling with the realization that an established constitutional right has been ripped away. Secrecy and a lack of transparency will only further that mistrust. The Oct. 3 editorial “Put cameras in the Supreme Court” appropriately… Read more »

The House will vote on a measure this week that would ensure the job security of thousands of federal employees who previously faced uncertainty around their employment security following an executive order issued by former President Donald Trump. Trump issued an order in October 2020, the month before the presidential election, which established a new employment category for federal… Read more »

Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat, represents Virginia’s 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives and is the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s subcommittee on government operations. Americans should be horrified to learn there is an active plot by a former political leader, twice impeached, to remove people he regards as his political opponents from… Read more »