Chris Murphy

I believe the legislation that we have both introduced to revitalize this important program will result in the production of hundreds of thousands more units of permanent supportive housing across the Nation.

And that statistic that we've heard over and over again, that $1,500 of every automobile produced in the United States goes to pay health care costs. The comparable number to our domestic auto manufacturers for their competitors in Japan…

That is the genius of health care reform is that you are going to get a system that covers everyone for less money, that we can do the right thing morally and the right thing financially at the same time. You know, I think we want to talk…

There is no more forceful advocate for the moral authority that we lack as a Nation as we try to go out and broker compromises around the world to try to preach to other countries about their rights and wrongs. It's very hard to do that…

You can't lose. And I wish it was more complicated. I wish legislating involved a little bit more mystery, but it doesn't. When you've got a choice to stand with regular, average, everyday folks who go to work every day trying to make a…

We come down to the House floor as some of the younger Members of the Democratic Caucus, and we try to do it every week to really focus in on how the issues affecting this Congress are specifically challenging younger families in this…

I think the passage with the Republican and Democratic votes of the economic stimulus package shows that this Democratic Congress has the potential to reach across the aisle and push back on a lot of these policies that we have been…

Well, we know he is leaving behind one of the weakest and one of the most fragile economies that we have seen in a very long time. Today we get reports from the Nation's largest retailers telling us that they still have not unburied…

Curiously, as we talked about here, a $9 trillion debt owed mostly to foreign nations, a President that has racked up more publicly held foreign debt and privately held foreign debt than any other Presidents combined in the history of the…

Annualized $400 billion operating deficits, the three largest operating deficits in the history of the Republic under the Bush administration, Ms. Wasserman Schultz.

So we have spent billions upon billions of dollars, another 170 this year, on the war in Iraq, which is feeding the international terrorist movement, and this isn't our saying it, that's the 22 most important national intelligence…

And Ms. Wasserman Schultz, we're also committed as 30-somethings. I mean, the reason why this group for 3 years, and before that, before you were here, when Mr. Meek and Mr. Ryan were down here, talk about this debt that we owe to foreign…

Forty-two Presidents took 224 years to rack up about $1 trillion in foreign-owned debt... This President, one President, has now... racked up $1.33 trillion in foreign-held debt. One President in about 7 years has racked up more debt than…

Just to make one point there, the Democratic budget that we passed last year balances the Federal budget in 5 years. For the first time since the Clinton administration, we are going to have a balanced Federal budget. This isn't…

In the past if somebody had come down to this floor and had spent an hour railing against the massive amount of earmarks in the bill, we wouldn't know that that person had requested some 20-odd earmarks in the bill. We wouldn't know unless…

The point is to make your case. If you want money for thermal underwear, come down and make your case in front of your colleagues. If you want money for autism, make your case. But the fact is you can't come down here and hold everyone…

This prohibition on steering is a small, but very important, piece of the puzzle of solving the problem of the subprime crisis and making sure that it doesn't occur again in the future.

I hope that people throughout this country who see the President's veto of this incredibly important bill... And these are the basic building blocks of a compassionate society, and the President has said, very firmly and clearly, no to…

The agency's toy testing department, it's lab hasn't been modernized since 1975, and the department consists of one man who drops toys on the floor in his office to see if they'll break. I mean, that's it. There you go. I mean, that's the…

Mr. Ryan, let me ask you a question: When was the last year that your team, the Indians, won the World Series? When was that? It was a long time ago. It was a long time ago. It's just something you might want to remember, that there might…

It lays it out, black and white. So yet another example of if you say it over and over again and you hope that people believe it. As we have said over and over, the agenda here is pretty clear. Republicans and the President simply do not…

To me, when it comes down to it, if I really am my brother's keeper, if I am really supposed to live a moral life and represent my moral obligations as a human being, there is nothing more central to that moral obligation than reaching out…

Mr. Ryan, the only questions that the Republicans asked about spending money is when it benefits poor kids. That is what seems to happen here. When it is about spending money in Iraq, when it is about spending money for private military…

$3.50 a day. I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I've got to imagine that one of those big fancy mocha grande lattes probably costs more than it costs to insure a child in this country, Mr. Ryan. That's cost efficient. That's being good…

At some point, we've got to talk about what results we're getting for our money, and if you can turn around even a portion of the money that we're using over there to make this country less safe, turn it around and college age, children's…