Good Government

Jonathan O'Connell Officials from the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about the White House’s role in canceling a decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters campus in the Washington suburbs last year, according to a government watchdog report released Monday. GSA officials also misrepresented the… Read more »

Niels Lesniewski President Donald Trump was more intimately involved in the debate over relocating the FBI headquarters than Congress was told, a new inspector general report finds. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat representing parts of Northern Virginia, said the report he requested from the General Services Administration… Read more »

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released the follow statement on today’s GSA Inspector General’s report on the FBI headquarters decision. Connolly requested the report in February 2018. “I initiated the Inspector General’s investigation into the procurement of a new consolidated headquarters for the Federal… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), co-chair of the House Green Dogs, released the following statement on the Trump administration’s rollback of the Clean Power Plan: “President Trump’s rollback of the Clean Power Plan is a giant step backwards and will have serious public health consequences. This does nothing to Make America Great Again and hands the 21st century clean energy… Read more »

Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, issued statements on a new report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General on non-disclosure forms and settlement agreements. “This new report shows a… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly and the cosponsors of the Metro Accountability and Investment Act (MAIA, H.R. 4900) wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to urge the Committee to include in any comprehensive infrastructure package the reforms and transit investments for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority… Read more »

Today, Representatives Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) and David Price (D-NC) sent a letter to President Trump expressing concern that the Administration’s recent actions could harm the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. In their letter, Connolly and Price reiterated longstanding, bipartisan support for a two-state solution to the conflict and urged the Administration to… Read more »

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Reform (FedRAMP) Act of 2018. The legislation would streamline the current FedRamp process, address agency compliance issues, and establish new metrics for proper implementation. “Despite its best… Read more »

Today, the House of Representatives passed the conference report for the FY19 National Defense Authorization Act, which included two amendments offered by Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA). The Connolly amendments would address the federal procurement process and security cooperation programs. The conference passed the House 359-54 and awaits action in the Senate. Since coming to… Read more »

Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and John Sarbanes (D-MD) introduced the Telework Metrics and Cost Savings Act. The bill would prohibit the kind of indiscriminate anti-telework policies the Trump Administration has announced for the Department of Education and U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Instead of instituting mindless, sweeping bans on telework participation,… Read more »