Rep. Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, dies at 75

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15. ..He is one of three Democratic congresspeople to have died in office in the last three months, following Ral Grijalva

My best to his family.





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/gerry-connolly-death-virginia-democrat

..........He is one of three Democratic congresspeople to have died in office in the last three months, following Raúl Grijalva and Sylvester Turner.

Connolly, born in Boston, worked for a decade in the 1980s with the US Senate committee on foreign relations, then served in elected roles in Fairfax county, mostly on the wealthy northern Virginia area’s board of supervisors.

Connolly was pro-growth and pro-business and had “played a large part in Northern Virginia’s transformation from a bedroom community into a thriving technology hub”, The Washington Post said. During Connolly’s time in Congress, the district he represented moved from a swing area to firmly blue.

A large number of federal employees live in Connolly’s district, and he served as a stalwart supporter of the federal workforce as Trump sought to weaken federal unions and worker protections.