Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joined Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representatives Anna G. Eshoo, David N. Cicilline, and Gregory W. Meeks in slamming President Trump for openly considering an outrageous request from Russian President Vladimir Putin to let Russian investigators inter... Read more »
Today SEEC Leadership, including Co-Chairs Reps. Gerry Connolly, Doris Matsui, and Paul Tonko, and Vice-Chairs Reps. Matt Cartwright, Alan Lowenthal, Mike Quigley, Chellie Pingree and Jared Polis released the following statement in response to the passage of H.Con.Res. 119, a Republican-led resolution expressing the sense of Congress that a tax on carbon pollution would be detrimental to the Unite... Read more »
Today, Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) requesting a hearing on President Trump’s recent Executive Order to... Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) voted against H.R. 50, legislation that would impose numerous new requirements that will slow down the regulatory process and give regulated industry an unfair advantage over public health organizations, doctors, scientists, and ordinary Am... Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement in advance of today’s hearing with FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok: “Today’s hearing is the second hearing the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and the Judiciary have held regarding the actions of the Federal Bureau of Investi... Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), co-chair of the House Green Dogs, and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) offered an amendment to H.R. 6147, the Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Appropriations Act of 2019, that would ensure the Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General is allowed to continue its investigations into former Administrator Scott Pruitt. Specifically, Conno... Read more »
By Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) The president is once again rooting for a “good government shutdown.” This is a reckless and irresponsible threat. We have a fundamental obligation to keep government open, and I think members of both parties can agree that there are no winners in a government shutdown. Budget brinksmanship has many victims, notably among which are the grieving families of fal... Read more »
Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) joined House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), and 41 other Democrats from the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees in releasing the following statement on President Trump’s attendance at the NATO Summit and his meeting with Russia... Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the following statement on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s resignation: “Scott Pruitt's reign of venality is finally over. He made swamp creatures blush with his shameless excesses. All tolerated because President Trump liked his zealotry. Shame.” In April, Connolly penned an Op... Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement regarding the inclusion of his bipartisan bill, the Families of Fallen Servicemembers First Act, in the 2019 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. The Families of Fallen Servicemembers First Act, originally introduced by Connolly and Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), ensures the immediate payment of military death benefits to surv... Read more »
