- Nov 28 2012
More than 300 federal employees and retirees participated in Congressman Connolly's annual Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan Open Season workshop held at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax. Read more.
< Read more > - Nov 15 2012
Connolly's annual Open Season Workshop will be this Saturday, Nov. 17 at W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Va. Speakers include FEHBP expert Walt Francis, and representatives from OPM and Medicare. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 18 2012
More than 16,000 11th Congressional district residents listened to Rep. Gerry Connolly's 15th telephone town hall call Tuesday night. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 11 2012
In letters sent to Governor Bob McDonnell and Virginia General Assembly leaders today, Congressman Gerry Connolly said the Commonwealth will make "a costly and historic mistake" if it opts out of the Medicaid expansion provisions of the Affordable Care
< Read more > - Jun 28 2012
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is a victory for all 311 million Americans. Read more.
< Read more > - Mar 28 2012
Reps. Connolly (D-VA) and Poe (R-TX) penned an OpEd for the Hill on their bill to put cameras in the Supreme Court. Their bill would bring needed transparency to the Court's deliberations on health care reform. Read more.
< Read more > - Mar 27 2012
Don't try giving Rep. Gerry Connolly tickets to this week's Supreme Court oral arguments over the health care law. Read more.
< Read more > - Dec 9 2011
Congressman Connolly has introduced bipartisan legislation to permit television coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court to give the public more access to the high court's deliberations. Read more.
< Read more > - Dec 7 2011
Congressman Connolly spoke today against the GOP led, anti-environment REINS Act. The REINS Act would block even the most commonsense public health regulations.
< Read more > - Nov 15 2011
Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold his 11th Telephone Town Meeting for residents of Virginia's 11th Congressional District on Thursday, November 17 at 8 pm. Residents can sign up to be on the call. Read more.
< Read more > - Oct 5 2011
Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold an Open Season Workshop on November 19, 2011. Open Season runs from November 14 to December 12. Read more.
< Read more > - Sep 30 2011
Rep. Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly brought together a panel of experts Thursday to talk about Social Security and health care at Westminster at Lake Ridge. Read more.
< Read more > - Sep 22 2011
Lashing out at those in Congress who put ideology ahead of pragmatic problem solving, U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly was animated and colorful in his remarks to a joint luncheon meeting of the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce and the Merrifield Business Association Tuesday. Read more.
< Read more > - Sep 8 2011
I applaud President Obama for making a strong pitch to Congress to pass legislation that will help create jobs, repair our crumbling infrastructure, and take meaningful steps to lift our nation out of this ongoing economic recession. I think he offered the right balance between job creation and providing a lifeline for the millions of Americans who are out of work and out of luck. Read more.
< Read more > - Sep 7 2011
The National Association of Community Health Centers honored Rep. Gerry Connolly on Tuesday for his support of community health facilities across the state. Read more.
< Read more > - Aug 5 2011
More than 12,000 residents of Virginia's 11th Congressional District participated in Rep. Gerry Connolly's Telephone Town Hall Thursday night. During the hour-long meeting, Connolly addressed a variety of issues in response to questions from constituents. Read more.
< Read more > - Aug 5 2011
In an hour-long telephone "town hall" with, according to his aides, 12,000 constituents listened in and a select number asked questions, U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly said tonight that deep cuts in the federal defense budget included in this week's vote to raise the debt ceiling should not bear heavily on the Northern Virginia region. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 19 2011
More than 100 Fairfax residents attended Congressman Gerry Connolly's July town meeting in Springfield to discuss the future of Medicare and Social Security and a House-passed plan, opposed by Connolly, that would dismantle Medicare as we know it. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 7 2011
Congressman Connolly Joined the United Service Organizations (USO) and Wounded Warriors and their families to break ground Monday on Fort Belvoir's Wounded Warrior and Family Care Center, a 25,000 square-foot facility that will help men and women injured in the line of duty with the difficult process of recovery. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 7 2011
Congressman Connolly voted against the Ryan Budget plan that would have changed Medicare as we know. Under the GOP plan, seniors would have been forced to give up their Medicare for a voucher system, leaving seniors to spend more out of pocket for private insurance. Read more.
< Read more > - May 16 2011
The generous pension system enjoyed by millions of federal workers from clerks to senators and judges has emerged as a key target in negotiations between Vice President Biden and congressional leaders looking to restrain the growing national debt. Read more.
< Read more > - Apr 21 2011
More than 30,000 residents of Virginia's 11th Congressional District participated in Congressman Gerry Connolly's Telephone Town Hall Meeting Wednesday and they made it clear in a poll conducted during the meeting that they strongly oppose the Republican plan to dismantle the Medicare program for seniors. Read more.
< Read more > - Mar 1 2011
U.S. Congressman Gerry Connolly visited the Arc of Greater Prince William in Dale City last week. Read more.
< Read more > - Dec 6 2010
About 200 current and retired federal workers attended a workshop Saturday at the Fairfax County Government Center to learn more about 2011 benefit and rate changes under the Federal Employee Health Benefit (FEHB) program. Read more.
< Read more > - Nov 15 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold his annual Open Season Workshop on December 4 to help federal employees and retirees navigate through the improvement and changes in the 2011 Federal Employees Health Benefits Plans, dental and vision insurance programs, and flexible spending accounts. Read more.
< Read more > - Jul 8 2010
Utilities urge customers to conserve power, water to reduce demand and avoid outages. In response to this week's record heat wave, power and water utilities in the 11th Congressional District are asking customers to reduce their consumption in order to avoid outages. Read more.
< Read more > - Jun 29 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) voted in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday evening to pass legislation retroactively reversing the 21 percent cut in Medicare and TRICARE payments to doctors and preserving access to quality health care for seniors and TRICARE families
< Read more > - Jun 17 2010
Beginning this week, thousands of Northern Virginia seniors who have hit the Medicare "donut hole" will receive $250 checks to help them defray the cost of prescription drug price, Congressman Gerry Connolly said today. Read more.
< Read more > - Mar 22 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly voted Sunday night with a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the health insurance reform bill. The legislation now goes to President Obama for his signature. Read Connolly's statement.
< Read more > - Mar 21 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly addressed his colleagues on the floor Sunday as the U.S. House of Representatives debated the historic health insurance reform legislation in a rare weekend-long session. In urging the House to support the bill, Connolly made it clear that the bill before the Congress met the tests that residents of Northern Virginia's 11th Congressional District said were required.
< Read more > - Mar 20 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) announced he will vote yes in the House Sunday on the historic health insurance reform legislation. "For the past year, my constituents have told me they want health insurance reform, but only if it meets certain tests," Connolly said. "Will it bring down premiums for families and small businesses? Will it reduce the deficit? Will it protect their choice of plan and doctor? Will it improve access to care?" "The answer to each of these questions is Yes, it will'," Connolly said in a statement issued Saturday. Read more below.
< Read more > - Mar 16 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly's motion to wring $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction from the health insurance reform bill passed the Budget Committee on a unanimous, bi-partisan vote on March 15. Connolly's motion instructs the House Rules Committee to report the final reform bill in a way that reduces the federal budget deficit by at least $100 billion over the next ten years and up to $1 trillion in the following decade.
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