Chris Murphy

We have one of these community health center residency programs in Connecticut, run actually by a former Congressman from Connecticut, Jim Maloney, in Danbury.

You get a really good return on your investment in community health centers.

I think we do hear regularly, obviously, reimbursement rates can help us drive change and really drive innovation in the healthcare delivery.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Connecticut

Clearly, that tells us that if you pay physicians in the Medicaid program and you pay practitioners in the Medicaid program close to what it actually costs them to do the work, they're going to start taking Medicaid clients, many of which…

That is not, just as Senator Warren said, to create an advertisement for divesting in traditional residency programs.

If this is ultimately just a geopolitical battle between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, we lose.

We owe it to ourselves and to everybody to exhaust the possible remedies that the diplomatic process might provide.

One of them clearly is to reestablish control over what he calls the 'near abroad.'

We are, obviously, watching these protests closely.

If Russia gets away with this extraterritorial incursion into Crimea without consequences and without serious, crippling consequences, then that sends a message to other countries that may be considering similar extraterritorial action.

Senator Chris Murphy has called for a nation-wide investigation.

Senator Murray, Senator Sanders, myself and Senator Schatz have legislation that I hope will take a look at it in the context of HEA reauthorization that will give you and give the Department of Education some new tools with which to try…

But the institution, in this case, the equivalent of the house, deserves to have the same kind of rigorous analysis applied to it.

The idea that we're spending, in this particular institution's case, $1.4 billion in taxpayer money all for the benefit of getting a 40 percent default rate and graduation rates, that are hovering under 10 percent at this institution is…

We need to hold schools accountable for their students' outcomes.

Today, we sort of have an all or nothing approach when we're looking at these institutions as to whether they are worthwhile investments for the Federal tax dollars.

In Bridgeport, CT, we had epidemic levels of school-based arrests... school-based arrests plummeted by 50 percent.

For a lot of the underperforming schools in my State, the foundational issue is kids' behavior before you get to kids' learning.

I am always fascinated by this intersection between convenience and quality.

I do not necessarily share your optimism about the direction that our European friends are going.

First, I associate myself with the remarks of the majority leader. I certainly understand the concerns of those on the Republican side about the individual who has proposed to spend a certain amount of money supporting the global warming…

I've listened to some of my good friends on the Republican side try to score political points in connection with the Russian move on Crimea. Trying to paint this somehow as Obama's fault. This is a ridiculous contention. Putin marched into…

I believe that we here in Congress have begun, in a way, to tempt fate by waiting as long as we have to reauthorize TRIA.

In a perverse sense, that these trade missions actually incentivize the regime.