Chris Murphy

I remain optimistic that a basic TPP deal can be reached by the time of President Obama's planned trip to Asia next April.

I do not mean to sound pessimistic about TTIP.

TTIP is an effort between the United States and Europe to gang up on the developing world.

President Yanukovych is 'a' President of Ukraine. He will be a transitional figure.

The United States can and should tell the Russian authorities that such a step would be impermissible.

I just think that is important to point out, is that a decision to join yourselves with the European Union not only opens yourself up to the benefit of that association, but does not foreclose your ability to continue to negotiate trade…

If the Ukraine fails to sign in Vilnius, might probably be President Yanukovych himself.

If Yanukovych walks away from this summit without an agreement, how does he explain this to the people of the Ukraine?

Our tactics start to look somewhat similar to the tactics that the Russians are using.

President Yanukovych has made it pretty clear for a long time that he sees his legacy as making Ukraine permanently independent.

Once you are in the Customs Union, you are locked in, and you have essentially sealed your fate as to essentially tie your economy to one country, and one country only.

This is about a broader commitment on behalf of the Ukrainians to end a practice of selective political prosecutions.

Yanukovych may think that he can have it all, here, that he can keep Tymoshenko in jail...

We have been very clear with respect to what Yanukovych needs to do with respect to Tymoshenko.

While this is a disruption to a large section of the economy, my confidence that, in the end, there are going to be far, far more winners than losers is rooted in part in Connecticut's experience.

Their problem wasn't that they got dropped from coverage. Their problem was that they couldn't find any coverage, and their story can be told millions of times over.

I think at some level this should be an exercise in setting the right expectations, that when you undergo this kind of effort to reorder a healthcare system that everyone on this committee agrees is broken, there are going to be some…

I think part of accountability should be affordability.

I think this is maybe the most, or one of the most important hearings that we have done all year because we, today, have a generation of young families that are just absolutely drowning in college debt.

If we move in the direction of competency-based learning, which I would love to do as a Nation, because I think it is one of the ways to deliver a much more affordable product with better results and metrics.

We have not delivered a more affordable product to our students, even though we are an innovative State.

But we cannot survive as a nation if we continue to spiral upwards over $1 trillion in student debt.

The situation of those American citizens who served in these potentially dangerous positions during World War II should have been corrected many years ago.

S. 1361 is a bi-partisan, no-cost bill that expands and clarifies the types of documentation for determining veterans status of certain 'coastwise merchant seamen' (Merchant Mariners) during World War II.

But it shouldn't come out of the pockets of the people who have paid for a service and don't get it.