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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.
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Jun 6 2012
TheHouse today adopted an amendment offered by Congressmen Gerry Connolly of Virginia and Jared Polis of Colorado to slash $25 million from failed oil shale research subsidies and redirect the funds toward deficit reduction. Read more.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 19 2011
Nine members of Virginia's congressional delegation sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday supporting Gov. Bob McDonnell's request for disaster relief in the wake of Tropical Storm Lee. Read more.
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Oct 19 2011
Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-11), two Virginia senators and seven members of Congress signed a letter Tuesday in support of a request Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) made for a major disaster declaration in light of flooding on Sept. 8, 2011. Read more.
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Oct 19 2011
Congressman Connolly, and members of the Virgina congressional delegation, addressed a letter to President Obama encouraging him to approve Governor McDonnell's request for disaster funds following Tropical Storm Lee. Read more.
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Oct 18 2011
Virginia's two U.S. senators and seven of its congressmen sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday supporting Governor Bob McDonnell's request for a major disaster declaration for damage caused by Tropical Storm Lee in Fairfax and Prince William C
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Oct 11 2011
It only took a few months in office for Woodbridge Supervisor Frank J. Principi to hear about his constituents' desire to open Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge. Nearly four years later, it has become a reality thanks to hard work from Principi,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jul 13 2011
Congressmen Gerry Connolly (D-VA) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday to criticize Republicans for wasting time on a bill to repeal a non-existent ban on incandescent light bulbs, rather than focusing on avoiding a default on American debt, three overseas wars, a stagnating economy, and other serious concerns. Read more.
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May 12 2011
Congressman Gerry Connolly has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that would repeal 10 tax loopholes which allow big oil companies to escape billions of dollars in federal taxes and return the funds to American drivers to help them defray the high costs of gasoline. Read more.
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May 9 2011
The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives put the interests of big oil companies ahead of national security and Virginia's economy on Thursday, Congressman Gerry Connolly said. Read more.
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Dec 21 2010
Elected officials are pursuing new regulations and tighter restrictions from the state and federal governments for a gasoline storage facility near the southeast border of the City of Fairfax and Fairfax County. Representative Connolly is seeking the assistance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clamp down on the facility. Read more.
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Aug 31 2010
Hurricane Earl has been categorized by the National Hurricane Center as a Category 4 hurricane. As Hurricane Earl moves towards the East Coast of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is urging all Americans in East Coast states to take steps now to prepare their families and businesses for hurricanes and severe weather. Read more.
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Jul 20 2010
Legislation sponsored by Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), John Sarbanes (D-MD), and Frank Wolf (R-VA) to jumpstart the federal government's telework program passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support. Read More.
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Jul 15 2010
The Telework Improvement Act, sponsored by Congressmen Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly, D-11th, Frank Wolf, R-10th, and John Sarbanes, R-Md., and co-sponsored by Rob Wittman, R-1st, directs every federal agency to appoint telework managing officers and implement telework plans for people to work form home or a teleworking center near their homes. Read more here.
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Jun 29 2010
Congressman Gerry Connolly voted in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday to pass legislation granting subpoena power to the bi-partisan commission tasked with investigating the BP oil spill, providing recommendations on preventing and mitigating future spills resulting from offshore oil drilling. Read more.
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Jun 17 2010
Congressman Connolly has authored legislation to repeal Bush-era loopholes that allowed BP to begin oil exploration on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf without any analysis of the potential environmental impacts. Connolly's bill will mandate a full environmental review of every aspect of all offshore drilling activity off the U.S. coast. Read more.
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