You have seen maybe a slower than expected take-up thus far, but you are doing everything within your power right now.
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.
I think there really is a real concern in Moscow that casualties could have an impact.
We are obsessed with this question of providing arms to the Ukrainians, and it matters.
I am supportive of extending defensive weapons to the Ukrainian Army, but I want to express now some questions regarding some reservations that I have about that position.
Only U.S. leadership in this crisis provides the necessary condition to ensure the sustained resolve of our allies.
Supporting Ukraine at this moment means... giving them means to defend their democracy.
Putin's military excursions are always the prelude to the centralization of his personal power.
Ukraine gave up 1,800 warheads, one-third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, to help secure peace in post-cold-war Europe.
We really believe that... an aerospace focused manufacturing innovation center should be one of the next that's authorized.
I just wanted to make sure that there's still going to be a commitment to this aquaculture research, both in Connecticut and in Washington.
90 percent of Americans support the notion that everyone should have to prove they are not a criminal before they buy a gun.
I'd just point out the genesis of the law to just remind folks, this was bipartisan at the outset.
President Reagan said, upon signing it, that there are "certain forms of ammunition that have no legitimate sporting, recreational or self-defense use and, thus, should be prohibited."
It's a moment in time where, if we capture the best available technology, there's a mountain of work to be had.
We really believe that, as you have this tsunami of aerospace purchasing coming...
I thought your answer to Senator Kaine's question was definitive in that you worry, as I know the President does, that a large-scale deployment of troops could become recruiting fodder for extremists as our presence in Iraq did over the 10…
If our forces were there taking fire from an ISIL position and needed to advance on that position to eliminate it in order to defend our troops, I assume that that action in that time and space looking like an offensive action would still…
A lot of attention has been given to this phrase 'enduring,' not as much attention given to the juxtaposition...
I do not think this President is going to authorize this, but this is a 3-year authorization, so the next President will get the chance to decide differently.
I think that we are just going to be debating the amount of fuzz that is created here.





