Getting Metro Safety Back on Track
New commission will be empowered to adopt tough safety rules
BY REP. STENY H. HOYER, SENS. BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, MARK WARNER, TIM KAINE AND CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, DEL. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, REPS. JOHN SARBANES, GERALD E. CONNOLLY, JOHN DELANEY, DONALD S. BEYER JR., ANTHONY G. BROWN AND JAMIE RASKIN
The Washington Metro system has its good… Read more »
National Capital Region Members Introduce Joint Resolution to Establish the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission
Today, U.S. Representative Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with U.S. Representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC-AL), John Sarbanes (MD-03), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), John Delaney… Read more »
Michael D. Shear
WASHINGTON — Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists strategized this past week about how… Read more »
On Monday evening, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) was unanimously elected Vice-Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Connolly was also named Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, a position he held in the previous Congress.
“As the House’s primary investigative committee, the Oversight and Government Reform Committee has a… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement on President Donald J. Trump’s federal hiring freeze:
“An across-the-board federal hiring freeze is a mindless way to manage. It fails to differentiate critical from non-critical issues. It fails to take into account the need to actually beef up certain capabilities in the federal government, like cybersecurity. This… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump’s Inaugural address:
“A troubling inaugural address. President Trump offered a dark, dystopian, and defiant inaugural speech that begins a new presidency without aspiration or reconciliation. It failed to unify or reach out to the entire nation, and insists on Trump's view of patriotism and… Read more »
Melanie Zanona
People traveling to Donald Trump's inauguration on the National Mall won't be using an iconic bridge that links the Arlington National Cemetery to the Lincoln monument.
The Arlington Memorial Bridge, built in 1932, is shut down to vehicular traffic from Thursday to Saturday… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) issued the following statement on his decision not to attend the Inauguration:
"After long reflection I have decided that I cannot attend the inauguration of Donald J Trump on Friday. His behavior and harmful words during and after the campaign have left the country I love with open, bleeding wounds. Instead of binding those wounds, he has poured salt on… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly issued the following statement in opposition to the Republican budget resolution.
I had a friend who often said, “if you are going to be a phony, at least be sincere about it.” This would be good advice for House Republicans who brought their budget resolution to the Floor today for a vote.
House Republicans complained that 79 bipartisan hearings and… Read more »
Congressman Gerry Connolly released the following statement on the House Republican rules package for the 115th Congress:
"Today, I opposed the House Republican rules package for the 115th Congress. This proposal ushers in a new era of unified Republican government. One in which facts – when inconvenient – do not matter and ethics are subject to the interpretation of the… Read more »
