Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on reports that President Trump released classified information to the Russians during a recent Oval Office visit: "This is a crisis of great magnitude. President Trump's reckless leak of classified information to the Russians will put lives at grave risk and alienate allies and friends. We have a problem in the White House."
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Today, all 34 Democratic Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a detailed letter to their respective Republican Chairmen outlining their demand for an immediate investigation into the actions of President Donald Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and top White House aides: “We are writing to request that the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee launch an immediate joint investigation into whether President D...
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Richard Reeve On Capitol Hill Wednesday, everyone is talking about the president firing FBI Director James Comey. One of the big headlines today is that the Senate intelligence committee has invited Comey to an interview, a closed-door meeting next Tuesday. Many are calling for appointing a special prosecutor to look into this as well. Normally that appointment would be made by the Attorney General or his deputy. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the vice chair of the intelligence committee, says...
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Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey: "President Trump fires FBI Director Comey in the midst of his investigation into Trump aides coordinating with Russia to interfere with our election. If it were about previous misjudgements, this would have happened in January. Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein is an enabler and this decision obstructs the investigation. Shades of the Saturday Night Massacre and Archibald ...
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Tony Ware Employees who refuse to follow an order that would violate a law, rule or regulation would be protected from retaliation if new legislation gets signed into law. The Follow the Rules Act — introduced by Reps. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., and Gerry Connolly, D-Va. — adds a clarification to the Whistleblower Protection Act spurred by a misinterpretation by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of Rainey v. MSPB. The bill, HR 657, is intended to protect employees rooting ou...
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Morgan Chalfant Lawmakers on Wednesday grilled information security officers at the Department of Education and IRS over a data breach of an information-sharing tool that potentially exposed the personal information of 100,000 Americans earlier this year. The chief information officers at both organizations came under harsh criticism from members of the House Oversight Committee over their handling of the situation, defending themselves against charges they may have violated the law by slow-roll...
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Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 657, the Follow the Rules Act, legislation introduced by Representatives Sean Duffy (R-WI) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA). The bill seeks to address a misinterpretation of the Whistleblower Protection Act by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of Rainey v. MSPB. The legislation would clarify that, under the Whistleblower Protection Act, an employee who refuses to obey an order that would require the employee to violate a law, r...
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Faiz Siddiqui A congressional spending bill set to be voted on this week maintains full federal funding for Metro, a positive sign for the struggling transit agency as it seeks continued support from a Republican-controlled Congress, officials said Monday. The bill authorizes $150 million in grant funding through the end of September, but it’s unclear whether Congress will approve funding for the remainder of the 10-year, $1.5 billion federal program — or renew it after the two remaining years ...
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Today, Representatives Will Hurd (R-TX), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Robyn Kelly (D-IL) and Sentor Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act. The legislation builds off the MGT Act which unanimously passed the House of Representatives in 2016. “I am proud to join Representatives Hurd, Kelly, and Senator Warner in reintroducing this critical IT modernization legislation,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly. “The MGT Act builds on the success of the bipartisan Federal IT Acqui...
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Joe Uchill A bipartisan group of lawmakers has reintroduced a bill aimed at modernizing federal information technology, returning focus to an issue Congress attempted to tackle last year. The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act provides two funding channels for the purchase of new IT equipment that would be cheaper to run and more secure. The legislation allows agencies to borrow money from a general modernization fund that is repaid with the savings from new equipment. It also allows ag...
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