Chris Murphy

Not only is it the right thing to do to allow people to have a minimal number of days in which they are paid to stay home when they're sick, but it's also a pretty good business practice to make sure that you don't have really sick people…

I think public policy has to hold banks accountable to staying in these communities and reinvesting in them.

I don't think that we yet have gotten to the place as a Nation where we can abandon the federal responsibility to make sure that we always maintain a floor.

I wholeheartedly agree.

We also know that when there is a bank in a community, access to business financing is more likely to occur.

I think that we have seen many banks focus too much on profit maximization in the short term, rather than looking at the needs of the communities where they do extract tremendous profits.

I think they would find that there are ways to prudently structure financing.

While I share all of her concerns about Corinthian College, let me just broaden out the problem...

When you're talking about accountability, we need to be able to assess how schools are performing, and that involves understanding how students do after they graduate.

The number one job we have, as Senator Murphy said earlier, is getting prices right.

This is a crisis waiting to happen, a country with simmering instability to begin with, a bursting population.

As we look to the ways in which countries would comply with a new global agreement on carbon emissions, efficiency is the quickest and easiest way to get there.

Given the fact that you are only prosecuting where you see volume, given your limited resources, it seems like an imperative to make sure that local law enforcement is communicating up the chain to these databases and to the FBI, to the…

We have had a string of these Grandparent Scams in Connecticut, along our shoreline, which is the reason that I have had some interest in this issue over the past several months.

I hope that you'll keep open the possibility of having a specific standard for the transfer of custody of adopted children.

We have to conduct our business according to our understanding of winning, losing, what benefits us, what is to the detriment of U.S. security interests.

I just think that is an enormously important distinction, because I do not really care if he thinks that he is winning according to his terms.

His economy is in recession, two straight quarters likely of negative growth, massive capital flight.

I guess if the measurement is levels of testosterone and bravado, he is winning.

What really is at stake is a competition of two systems, our liberal societies and Putin's ideas.

Aligning U.S. and European energy policies is of renewed strategic importance

It is really hard for us to represent our Nation's interests if we do not have an ambassador on the ground.

I do think, and I hope that you will point out, the curious position that Europe continues to be in, which is to ask vociferously and aggressively for U.S. shale gas and then be totally unwilling to develop their own resources.

The Germans have openly been the most skeptical about sanctions on Russia with respect to action in the Ukraine.

This is not a new topic for this committee, but Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and military activity in eastern Ukraine has brought a new sense of urgency and focus to this debate.