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Today, co-chairs of the Georgia Caucus Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), introduced H.R. 598 the Georgia Support Act. The legislation asserts the United States of America’s continued support for the independence and sovereignty of Georgia, recognizes Georgia’s commitment to democratic values including free and fair elections, and affirms U.S. opposition to Russian aggression in the region. In Georgia’s occupied regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia has fome... Read more

Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Sam Graves (R-MO) introduced a bipartisan House Resolution to preserve six-day mail delivery, including Saturday delivery, by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). H.Res. 54 expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the USPS should take all appropriate measures to preserve a vital component of our Nation’s long-standing Universal Service Standard, Saturday Mail Delivery. A similar Graves-Connolly resolution introduced in the 115th Congres... Read more

Today, Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH) re-introduced H.R. 596 the Crimea Annexation Non-recognition Act, legislation prohibiting federal agencies from taking action that recognizes Russian sovereignty over Crimea. The legislation was previously introduced in the 115th, 114th, and 113th Congress. “Congress must lead the way in refusing to acknowledge the forcible and illegal annexation of Crimea. Failure to stand up to Russian aggression in the region will only embol... Read more

Jessica Taylor and Peter Overby Officials leasing the Old Post Office Building for the the Trump International Hotel in Washington improperly ignored the Constitution's anti-corruption clauses when they continued to lease the government property to President Trump even after he won the White House, according to an internal federal government watchdog. The Inspector General for the General Services Administration, the agency that leased the building to Trump in 2013, said in a report published W... Read more

David A. Fahrenthold The General Services Administration “ignored” concerns that President Trump’s lease on a government-owned building — the one that houses his Trump International Hotel in Washington — might violate the Constitution when it allowed Trump to keep the lease after he took office, according to a new report from the agency’s inspector general. Trump’s company won the lease several years before he became president. After Trump was elected, the agency had to decide whether his compa... Read more

Congressman Gerry Connolly, a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement on the GSA OIG’s report finding GSA improperly ignored the Constitution in evaluating the Trump Organization’s lease at the Old Post Office Building: “Today, the GSA OIG confirmed what we all knew: The Trump Administration is in violation of the Emoluments clauses of the United States Constitution. GSA’s decision to not consider whether the President’s business interest in... Read more

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly, a senior member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement on federal court ruling against the Trump administration’s addition of a citizenship question to the Census. “From the beginning, I’ve been fighting the Trump Administration’s attempts to intimidate minority communities into not being counted, and represented, by their own government. Today, a US District Court Judge agreed – the Census cannot be a partisan tool. Th... Read more

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) joined Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Mark Warner (D-VA), and Congressman Derek Kilmer (D-WA), in introducing the Federal Employee Civil Relief Act. The new bicameral legislation would protect federal workers and their families from foreclosures, evictions, and loan defaults during a government shutdown. “For weeks, President Trump’s shutdown has threatened the livelihoods of more than 800,000 federal employees and scores of federal contract workers who... Read more

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) sponsored legislation introduced by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) that would guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted workers who are affected by the ongoing government shutdown. “Low-wage federal contract workers can least afford to be penalized by President Trump’s shutdown,” Norton said. “Unlike federal employees, who have always been made whole after a shutdown, many low-wage workers, who are the focus of our bill, earn little ... Read more

Democrats from the National Capital Region today announced that they have secured the removal of the Holman Rule from H. Res. 6, the Rules package for the 116th Congress. The Holman Rule allows restrictions on federal offices and programs, including the reduction of individual salaries, to be added to must-pass appropriations legislation. Majority Leader-elect Steny Hoyer, Reps. Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin, Reps.-elect Jennifer Wexton and David Trone, and Congresswoman... Read more