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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.

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May 27, 2026

We can't fund that kind of agency. We would be violating our oath of office, all of us, to fund an agency that just doesn't care about the law.

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May 27, 2026

In Connecticut, corporate greed killed a deal to keep our only major professional sports team, the Connecticut Sun, in the state.

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May 27, 2026

Such facilities are likely to strain essential local public services like your community’s fire department, 911 call center, ambulance services, and hospital services.

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May 27, 2026

I think it would just be better if you told them to shut this thing down, because it just smacks of corruption.

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May 27, 2026

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.

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May 27, 2026

The cameras aren't in Minneapolis like they were, but 17 people have died in custody in just the last month.

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May 27, 2026

It's just ultimately going to be less money to do the job.

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May 27, 2026

The surge in settler violence against Palestinians and the widespread demolition of their homes is unacceptable and undermines the potential for a two-state solution that protects Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic state.

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May 27, 2026

It's not credible to come before this committee and say that you are asking for a 25% reduction, and you are going to train more workers and provide more training value. That's just not credible.

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May 27, 2026

I will always support the security of the Israeli people, but Prime Minister Netanyahu has jeopardized that security and Israel’s standing in the world through his handling of the wars in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon, and by allowing total…

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May 27, 2026

This is a PAC run by acquaintances and allies of yours. Your face is plastered all over its literature.

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May 27, 2026

I mean, it's like black is white. It's a 35% cut you’re proposing.

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May 27, 2026

We have an epidemic of low quality care in our nursing homes today, increasingly because we have a lot of for profit operators, a lot of private equity owned nursing homes today, it's a real issue.

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May 27, 2026

Donald Trump's Department of Justice should spend more time going after dangerous criminals and less time wasting taxpayer dollars by attacking states that don’t support his inhumane and illegal mass deportation agenda. Connecticut remains…

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May 27, 2026

It's not just gas prices. You are about to see a spike in the cost of technological products, automobiles, fabrics, clothing, medical devices, everything is getting more expensive because of one person's insane decision.

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May 27, 2026

I don't know how a state like Connecticut fills that gap.

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May 27, 2026

It is time for my Republican colleagues to join us in one of these resolutions, because it is so clear that if this war continues, even for another day, the reputational cost to the United States is potentially unrecoverable.

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May 27, 2026

Let's just be clear -- once Republicans have taken the lid off this jar, there's no putting it back.

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May 27, 2026

Time is not on our side here. I believe you are being way too optimistic in your assessment of their potential to cave.

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May 27, 2026

This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small businesses out of business, if gas prices remain at $5 through this summer.

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May 27, 2026

The Founding Fathers were really intentional in lodging the war making power not in the executive branch, but in the legislative branch.

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May 26, 2026

Maybe the next president will just keep it as a hole in the ground to remind us to never ever elect somebody this corrupt and this reckless again.

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May 26, 2026

Government can help set up the conditions so that we can have more connected, happier, more vibrant communities.

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May 26, 2026

The common good is about living in a world where you care about yourself but others as well.

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May 26, 2026

I think for all the focus on Donald Trump and the news of the day, people in this country know there is a deeper story in this country, and that is we are a less connected culture today.

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