Chris Murphy actually said...

"I think it's so important to be able to shift our spending away from disaster response to prevention."

"So I'm a new chairman of this committee. I took the job knowing about the politics that surround this issue."

"I just couldn't believe the choices that were being made. I couldn't believe the choice to, you know, round up mothers with medically-fragile children, separate them from their kids to send them back ..."

"It is an oversimplification to suggest that they are in the pocket of the Chinese government."