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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 5, 2025

You can't say female; you can't say gender. I have the list here. It is absolutely patently absurd, right? Do you remember, OK, so that is an element of DEI, but there is another element of DEI. So when that tragic plane crash happened…

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Feb 5, 2025

It may be back online, but no one knows whether that's for sure, because Russel Vought and Donald Trump think they may be above the law.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee that’s going to participate in this fraud.

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Jim Himes
@jimhimes· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

It is evident to me that 2 weeks into the new administration, we no longer have a Congress and that we no longer take care that laws be faithfully executed. We passed a law that says TikTok must either be sold or be shut down, but that…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

Musk’s takeover of the federal workforce and the federal payment system was a constitutional crisis.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

We don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

He's going to exploit it for the bottom lines of his companies and his billionaire friends.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

as my colleague Senator Schiff from California has just so powerfully stated, we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis--a crisis that would have been unimaginable just weeks ago, a crisis that involves a President disobeying the law…

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Jim Himes
@jimhimes· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

An absolutely unnecessary counterintelligence risk was assumed today.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

We are wide awake to the fraud that’s being perpetuated on this country inside this building and we’re not going to stand for it.

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

It is reprehensible an unelected billionaire can freely access veterans' sensitive and personal information.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

We don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires. We don’t pledge allegiance to Elon Musk.

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Jim Himes
@jimhimes· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

We put a lot of people needlessly at risk here, including young people at the start of their careers.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Feb 4, 2025

When we open up the Senate every single morning, we don’t pledge allegiance to the billionaires.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jan 30, 2025

a lot of Americans turned on the TV today hoping that the President of the United States was going to make a nonpolitical, nonpartisan statement grieving the loss of those who died in the awful plane crash last night. Instead, he almost…

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jan 29, 2025

I think it is fair to say that none of us expected a week ago to be here on the floor at this moment, talking about a massive, across-the-board freeze on Federal funding. I don't think either of us, on either side of the aisle, expected to…

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Jan 28, 2025

the murder rate in the United States today--the global murder rate--is infinitesimal. It is a fraction of what it was 200 years ago, 400 years ago, 600 years ago--a fraction of what it likely was in the Bronze Age or in the days when…

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Richard Blumenthal
@richardblumenthal· Democratic · CT· Jan 28, 2025

I am honored to join my colleagues here on the floor tonight, but we all wish we weren't here. We should not be here. We are here because the Trump administration, last night, swept the country into chaos. We are here because it is a…

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