Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to David Warrington, Counsel to the President, expressing his grave concern regarding President Trump’s recent action that would endanger national security by allowing the White House Counsel to grant Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security… Read more »
Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Trump Administration revealed its latest attempt to push out nonpartisan federal workers, this time through a deferred resignation:
“Donald Trump is trying every trick he and his Project 2025 cronies can think of to circumvent established civil… Read more »
Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s firing of inspectors general of at least a dozen federal agencies:
Trump’s Friday night coup to overthrow legally protected independent inspectors general is an attack on transparency and accountability,… Read more »
Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led House Committee Ranking Members in a letter to President Donald Trump condemning his attempted late-night purge of at least 12 independent inspectors general, which appears to have violated federal law designed to protect their work from political interference and intimidation.
The… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, reintroduced the Vital Documents Access for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth Act, legislation to establish an interagency task force to facilitate increased access to vital documents like social security cards and birth certificates for unaccompanied homeless youth. Connolly… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the former Executive Director of the US Committee for Refugees, reintroduced the Lady Liberty Act to require the President to set a goal of admitting no less than 125,000 refugees annually. Connolly previously… Read more »
Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (VA-11), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, joined Congresswoman Jennifer L. McClellan (VA-04) and their Virginia Democratic colleagues, Representatives Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Don Beyer (VA-08), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), and Eugene Vindman (VA-07), in urging President Donald Trump to revise or revoke… Read more »
Today, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders that will politicize the civil service and help his billionaire friends at the expense of the American people:
“Donald Trump has used his first day in office to begin the purge of the nonpartisan… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Congressman Dale Strong (R-AL), Member of the House Committees on Appropriations and Homeland Security, reintroduced the CyberCorps Enhancement Act, bipartisan legislation to improve and expand the existing CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program. Connolly and… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement on the Biden administration's recently released Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity:
"The Biden administration’s recently issued executive order (EO) is a capstone on four years of… Read more »
