Chris Murphy

For Congress to approve of this budget, you must assure us that this Sherman's march of illegality ends. You must stop padding the pockets of immigration industry CEOs.

That’s the difference between you and I.

There are few questions we confront that are more serious than when we send our men and women to die overseas.

The reason why Democrats and Republicans were not able to find agreement on the underlying DHS appropriations bill is because never before in the history of our nation has a federal agency been run so far off the rails as the Department of…

There’s only one rule here: In the end, he gets anything he wants.

Caregivers shouldn’t lose out on Social Security benefits because they step away from the workforce to care for a loved one. Caregiving is work, and it’s time we start treating it that way. This legislation would make clear that the…

Why did you decide to shut down these field offices, to illegally fire half the attorneys?...In Connecticut, in your home state, when you came into office, there were 127 pending claims at OCR, half of them were kids with disabilities who…

President Trump likes to talk about law and order, but his administration is pulling out all the stops to make it easier for criminals to get their hands on guns. These new rules are just a gun lobby wish list printed on ATF letterhead and…

Of course, we are seeing billions of dollars having been spent by businesses, by farms, by consumers, because gas prices are out of control. This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small…

Do not ask us to fund an agency that just makes up its own law.

I agree that there is politics involved in judicial decisions. I do not think that gives an excuse to either a Democratic or Republican administration to ignore those court orders.

This agency is spending money like stone drunk sailors.

Every day this agency is breaking the law at scale and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. DHS does not implement the law any longer. It makes up the law.

At your confirmation hearing, you [promised] that you would get DHS out of the headlines. We took you at your word - but nothing has really gotten better…

What happened in the U.S. Senate tonight should send a chill down the spine of anyone who cares about the rule of law in this country. Democrats had a very simple ask: work with us to put basic guardrails on an agency that has spiraled out…

This war was a mistake. It should end as quickly as possible.

Not a single child got a positive resolution, got help from the Department of Education having filed a disability claim in 2025. That is unacceptable.

Despite the differences that existed between Republicans and Democrats prior to this administration on how to approach Iran's nuclear program, the theory was basically the same, that we were going to impose significant harm on the Iranian…

It should not, it cannot, be simply one individual who makes those decisions.

The entire country is seized by the question of when there will be an agreement, because apparently until there is an agreement, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

I say in this book, I still don’t understand why the sort of mainstream Democratic Party perceives Bernie Sanders or AOC to be the fringe threats to our electoral success.

There have been a bunch of moments over the last year-and-a-half where I have looked around at my caucus and been disappointed by our inability to seize the moment.

I just think our solutions have to be bigger.

It's just sad that we had to go through all of this just to talk about a diplomatic agreement that brings us back to where we were but lowers our leverage

So you will not give them sanctions relief just in exchange for reopening the strait?