Foreign Policy

Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) released the following statement after reports Attorney General Sessions’ may have lied under oath about meeting with Russian officials: "Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and now Attorney General Sessions. Each day there are more troubling revelations that make clear senior level Trump officials had direct contact with the Russians. Even more concerning,… Read more »

Alex Koma Several members of Northern Virginia’s Congressional delegation are now joining dozens of other lawmakers in demanding that Attorney General Jeff Sessions either resign his post or recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential contact with Russian officials. Those calls follow revelations late March 1 that Sessions met twice with Russian envoys… Read more »

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 »

Democratic Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs today reminded the Administration that State Department personnel who dissent from policy are protected by law and sought assurances that State Department personnel would not be subject to harassment or retribution for offering dissenting viewpoints. In a letter to the President, the Members expressed concern over comments from… 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 »

By Joe Uchill Reps. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduced legislation Friday to sanction any individual who has interfered with an election since 2015. “Every member of the House should cosponsor this bill. I hope in the days ahead, we build the sort of bipartisan support around this issue we're seeing in the Senate… Read more »