Chris Murphy actually said...

"I agree that there is a significant difference, but let me speak in defense of guidance."

"Maybe there's not legislation on this, Mr. Chairman, but just potentially the opportunity to use a bipartisan bully pulpit to make clear to the insurance companies that this is in their best interest ..."

"we're going to make your life a lot harder if the legislation that has been pending throughout the year becomes the law"

"it's very hard to confront this epidemic when we are threatening to pass health care legislation that would remove $800 billion from Medicaid"