Today, Congressmen David Price (D-NC) and Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement after the Trump Administration refused this week to reaffirm the United States’ commitment to a two-state solution. In March, following the President’s remarks that, “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one both parties like,” Connolly and Price sent a bipartisan letter… Read more »
Joe Davidson
President Trump’s latest threat to shut the government is just the most recent indication that he is unfit and unprepared for the office.
The notion that the president of the United States would purposefully imperil services to taxpayers if Congress doesn’t approve $1.6 billion for his Mexico border wall would… Read more »
Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement today in response to President Trump’s reckless threat to shut down the federal government unless American taxpayers foot the bill for his ill-conceived border wall.
“The President promised that Mexico was going to pay for his wall. That was a lie. Now, he is willing to threaten another Republican shutdown that… Read more »
Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly, Bobby Scott, Don Beyer and Donald McEachin sent a letter to Virginia’s Commissioner of Insurance requesting greater transparency for 2018 health insurance premium rates. “We are concerned that efforts in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act, coupled with the Trump Administration’s efforts to sabotage the law, will increase 2018 premiums… Read more »
Today Congressman Gerry Connolly and 101 members in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Secretary Pruitt to stop and consider the dangers of repealing the Clean Water Rule. This rule helps protect the drinking water of 117 million Americans and safeguards waters critical to America’s outdoor heritage where we hunt, fish, and swim. This letter was led by SEEC Member Rep. Don Beyer,… Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly joined 79 Members of Congress in introducing a censure resolution against President Donald Trump for his disgraceful response to the violence perpetrated by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Ku Klux Klan members in Charlottesville, VA.
“Trump's behavior following Charlottesville was reprehensible and beneath the office,” said Connolly. “Rather… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold his annual Open Season Workshop on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at the Fairfax County Government Center to assist federal employees and retirees in navigating through the many changes in the 2018 Federal Employees Health Benefits Plans (FEHBP), dental and vision insurance programs.
The federal government’s Open Season for federal employees and… Read more »
Brianna Sacks, Tom Namako, and Adolfo Flores
President Donald Trump delivered an address Tuesday that made him sound like President of the Confederacy.
Trump went on an angry defense of the racists who sparked riots that led to a suspected terror attack and three deaths in Charlottesville this weekend, inaccurately blaming… Read more »
Jordan Fabian
One person was killed and 19 others were injured when a car plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turning a day of violent demonstrations into a tragedy that rocked the nation.
The University of Virginia Health System said 20 people were brought to the… Read more »
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11)
White House Advisor Stephen Miller took pains last week to point out that Emma Lazarus’ sonnet, “The New Colossus,” was not affixed to the Statue of Liberty when she was unveiled in 1886. He, of course, was right in fact but wrong in spirit.
The famed “Give me your tired, your poor, your… Read more »
