Chris Murphy

What is exceptional about the United States is the way in which we have structured our market for drugs.

I am hopeful that we are going to spend some serious time and attention to this question of spiraling drug costs important for consumers.

Do you have enough funding to get to where you think we should be 5 years from now or 10 years from now in terms of the amount of guidance necessary to keep up with the pace of technological change on these drugs?

Half of them are taking in a greater profit at the end of the year than they are spending on research and development.

American consumers and the U.S. Government bear the lion's share of R&D costs for the entire industry globally.

Let me thank my friend from Ohio for his very constructive remarks on the success of CO-OPs. We have a CO-OP in Connecticut that has been providing very good quality care at very reasonable rates. It is part of what helps make our…

He has requested that Congress make that change, and the President has acknowledged that that is a subject that is within the jurisdiction of Congress.

One of the reasons that you do focus on the issue of gun laws is because the research that you have looked at makes it pretty clear that States that make it harder for criminals to access guns have lower rates of gun homicide.

That is simply a recitation of existing court interpretations of the underlying law.

I would hope that those that have an opinion, especially those that have a strong opinion, on this guidance would actually take the time to read it.

That is not in the executive actions announced.

There will be those that call it patently unconstitutional.

In the last 2 years alone, we went from 91 million Americans living in an area that was designated as a mental health shortage jurisdiction for outpatient services to 97 million Americans.

We've closed down 4,000 mental health inpatient beds since 2007 in this country.

I think this is one of our opportunities in 2016 to be able to move something substantive, something bipartisan, something that makes a difference on the floor of the Senate.

I deeply and respectfully urge this committee to move forward with this strong bipartisan bill.

I support S. 1945, drafted by Senators Cassidy and Murphy and NAMI is a stronger supporter as well.

The legislation that Senators Murphy and Cassidy have worked on together would take some very important steps to better integrate mental and physical health care.

This bill is a pronounced step in this direction.

I said that Holgate was August 5, and Shannon was September 18. Adam Szubin has been before the banking committee since April 16. He is a few months away from being before the Senate for almost a full year in a job that we can all agree is…

If you believe in the limits of American power as a catalyst for change abroad absent a local commitment to do so, the last 15 years in Afghanistan are, certainly, proof of that concept.

I do not think there is any evidence to suggest that the United States is willing to do things and send messages to the Afghans to telegraph that we are serious in any way, shape, or form about them getting serious about anticorruption…

Our priority is actually not to encourage local political change. Our priority is to commit just enough resources to stop Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for terrorists.

One of the weaknesses of current U.S. policy is that we treat these institutions or tools as if they are stand-alone entities.

Nobody would accuse the U.N. of being an efficient organization.