Chris Murphy

The challenge of loneliness isn’t going anywhere and the social connection safety net this bill funds is among the best investments we can make for the mental and physical health of our seniors.

“Loneliness can be a silent killer for the elderly and people with disabilities and we need to do a lot more to protect these vulnerable groups from social isolation and help them find community,” said Murphy.

Tackling the loneliness crisis is a shared project, and the government's role is to understand why people feel so angry and alone, and to create a culture and an economy that encourages more social connection.

Americans are feeling more disconnected than ever and it’s a full-blown crisis for our democracy when people retreat to their devices and lose sight of what it means to be part of a community.

I'm glad the war is over. But, I'm furious that it has resulted in our nation's humiliation, in Iran becoming stronger, and America becoming weaker.

The entire scope of this agreement basically boils down to a multi-billion dollar payment to Iran, so that Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. What a disaster that is.

All of this was predictable. I've listened to my hardline colleagues argue that the only way to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, or to destroy their missiles, or to stop their support for terrorism, is to go to war with Iran.

These nuclear negotiations are just destined to fail. I hope I'm wrong, but on the back side of this war, the President has almost no leverage.

The war needs to end basically upon any terms, but it is important for us tonight, as we are reading the details of this agreement, to understand how the terms of this agreement are final, clear, and total proof of how calamitous this war…

I knew the deal was likely going to be humiliating for the United States of America, but I didn't know it was going to be this humiliating. I didn't know the deal was going to be this bad.

As gas prices eclipse $6 a gallon in many places, as Americans are killed, as new wars break out in the region, as farms go bankrupt with the ballooning diesel prices, every single day this war has gone on, it has become a worse debacle…

If you have given up all your leverage just to open the strait, you have nothing left to try to get them to come to the table on their nuclear program.

If what’s reported is real, it’s Iran’s terms. I mean, it’s essentially a surrender.

We cannot extend these capabilities if the president is making clear that he’s going to use them not to protect the nation, but to protect himself politically.

It’s not a close call. We cannot extend these capabilities if the president is making clear that he’s going to use them not to protect the nation, but to protect himself politically.

It’s hard to fathom how deeply evil this is,

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.

You will agree that this budget reduces, you're proposing to reduce funding for the Department by 35%?

This budget proposes a 35% reduction to the Office of Civil Rights.

I think if you're a Republican or Democrat on this committee, you should be really, really freaked out.

No, it's not…this budget has a 35% proposed reduction for the Office of Civil Rights.

The president has spent the last few weeks reaching his hand into the Treasury, stealing from the American people $1.7 billion to be put into a slush fund that he controls to reward his political supporters.

You must stop padding the pockets of immigration industry CEOs. You must rein in this out-of-control overspending.

We're debating funding an immigration enforcement operation that is going after legal citizens, that is not targeting people who are a threat to this country, that exists just to try to stoke fear of our neighbors.

We could have spent this week -- Republicans could have spent their reconciliation process on gas prices or the health insurance catastrophe that's about to hit Americans or reversing Trump's tariffs or trying to actually do things that…