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Chris Murphy

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Chris Scott Murphy is a United States Senator from Connecticut, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Murphy has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including gun control, healthcare reform, and climate change action. He has played a significant role in national discussions surrounding these topics, often emphasizing the need for legislative changes to address pressing societal challenges.

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May 31, 2026

We need the Iran war to end. There's been this talk of a deal for months and months and months. I think the terms of the deal are pretty humiliating in and of themselves, but we just need this war done, no matter the terms, at this point.

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May 31, 2026

We should have had an open contest.

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May 31, 2026

I think Democrats do have to be honest about the mistakes that we made in 2024.

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May 31, 2026

Connecticut remains on the right side of the law and will continue to keep our communities safe from crime and this administration’s lawlessness.

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May 30, 2026

This MAHA PAC thing just seems like a moral and ethical mess.

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May 30, 2026

“We are all still reading this bill, but its primary effect seems to be to limit the compensation of athletes while protecting the huge salaries of all the adults - coaches, ADs, sports industry executives - who are getting rich off the…

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May 30, 2026

I don't think we're going to adopt this budget, but I think if we did, it'd be a really dangerous prescription – especially for states like Connecticut.

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May 30, 2026

As you know, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has a process to issue unique zip codes for communities, but that process is broken.

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May 30, 2026

This is a high risk strategy, to hope that this economic pressure will eventually cause [Iran] to voluntarily reopen the strait when there's plenty of evidence from military history to show that countries that are being attacked or invaded…

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May 30, 2026

There are several bills that have been introduced in the House of Representatives and Senate that would direct USPS to issue unique zip codes.

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May 30, 2026

I just think it's important that you just tell us that we're going to train less people with federal dollars, and you're going to ask the private sector and states to pick up the difference.

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May 29, 2026

It seems like the people of Maine like the fact that he's talking about the struggles that regular people are going through.

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May 29, 2026

And don't like the fact that their current senator seems to be empowering a pretty corrupt agenda in this administration.

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May 29, 2026

Whereas Rider sees hockey as character-building fun, Black Bear's objective is far simpler: to make a grotesque amount of money.

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May 28, 2026

There's absolutely no way that that doesn't result in fewer job training slots in Connecticut.

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May 28, 2026

And it gives the NCAA an antitrust exemption that no other industry gets just so they can keep underpaying the athletes.

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May 28, 2026

Sure, there are some good things for players in this bill, but this seems like a great deal for the NCAA and the rich guys who run college sports, and a bad deal for athletes.

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May 28, 2026

We are all still reading this bill, but its primary effect seems to be to limit the compensation of athletes while protecting the huge salaries of all the adults - coaches, ADs, sports industry executives - who are getting rich off the…

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May 27, 2026

There is a rolling disaster happening throughout the world because of these energy price increases that have been designed, manufactured by Donald Trump.

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May 27, 2026

It is okay for you to support President Trump, generally and politically, and admit that this war was a massive mistake.

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May 27, 2026

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s rapidly escalating invasion of southern Lebanon is about to create a new humanitarian disaster.

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May 27, 2026

I think we all are angry that our colleagues are not allowing this body to do its job. But we are also angry that the cost of this war is not being borne by members of the United States Senate, is not being borne by Donald Trump's…

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May 27, 2026

The impact on the US economy is getting more acute. There are more and more Americans who are unable to make their lives work because we have seen a 30% increase in gas prices since this war began.

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May 27, 2026

I do not believe it is good policy to support providing bombs and equipment that are directly enabling this violence.

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