Jenna Portnoy
Health-care recipients. Immigrants with relatives who are barred from entering the United States. A champion of science education.
Some Democratic members of Congress from Virginia and Maryland are protesting the policy goals of President Trump and the Republican majority with the guests they plan to bring to his big speech Tuesday night.
A few of these members… 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 »
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 »
