Chris Murphy

I hope that that's part of our hearing as well today, how do we put the practice of medicine back into primary care?

It really comes down to a question of do you want to invest early, or do you want to pay later...

I think if some people on this committee want to call the tragedy in Benghazi the worst since 9/11, it misunderstands the nature of 4,000-plus Americans lost over 10 years of war in Iraq fought under false pretenses.

As former Secretary of State Clinton said in her testimony before Congress in January 2013, that we are abdicating the ideological arena and we need to get back into it.

I have a feeling that the majority of these parents are going to be marching on Washington. I mean, be demanding change, whether it be more help for the mentally ill or developmentally disabled or stricter gun control.

I think there are a lot of NRA members who agree. I think Wayne Lapierre today is out of step with America, out of step with Newtown.

That's essentially what the NRA said today is, that the solution to this mass killing in Newtown is more guns in schools, in homes.

I was in Grace McDonnell's funeral. And when I got out, I was shown a copy of the statement and I nearly became sick.

If the assault weapons ban had been in place, Anderson, I fundamentally believe, I know a lot of parents in Newtown believe that there would be kids getting their Christmas presents this Christmas.

I think we're going to have one of the most powerful lobbying forces that this country has ever seen in the parents and relatives of those that were killed last Friday.

This country is moving over the last seven days towards sensible gun legislation that takes assault weapons off the streets.

Ultimately, the solution for this country is not for us to become one big armed camp. The solution is to make sure that these weapons don't exist in the first place.

I can't speak for Ian and Nicole, nor for the other parents, but I'm pretty sure that they don't think that change is more guns.

By the time I had gotten to the next funeral, to little Dylan Hockley's funeral, the horror had already started to spread through the 200, 300 people who were there. Dylan's family talked about the fact that they knew that something good…

I thank the gentlelady for those words. I am so pleased to have joining us on the floor the Democratic leader. I yield the customary 1 minute to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Pelosi).

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