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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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Apr 9, 2024

The fentanyl trade between the United States and Mexico is a circle.

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Apr 9, 2024

This piece of bipartisan legislation would have been the most transformative change to our broken immigration system.

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Apr 9, 2024

A budget that makes only minimal new investment to combat fentanyl will fail to make the progress we need

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Apr 9, 2024

Another impeachment article rages about the Immigration Court backlog, a backlog that has existed in Republican and Democratic administrations.

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Apr 9, 2024

Do you know what did update and fix our broken laws? The Bipartisan Border Bill, negotiated by myself, Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, with help from Senator McConnell and Senator Graham.

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Apr 9, 2024

This administration's budget request in recent years are designed to merely manage the border crisis it created

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Apr 9, 2024

Let us be clear. Despite Congress' inability to respond to this crisis, the Biden Administration and Secretary Mayorkas have removed, returned, or expelled more migrants in 3 years than the Trump Administration did in 4 years.

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Apr 9, 2024

What makes me most angry about this impeachment is its attempt to personally impugn Secretary Mayorkas.

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Apr 9, 2024

If passed, this would have been the most significant, most serious reform of immigration law in 40 years.

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Apr 9, 2024

The border is a very important issue for Donald Trump

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Apr 9, 2024

This budget doesn't provide enough money, and this budget, by definition, cannot update the immigration laws of this country, which are outdated and broken.

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Apr 9, 2024

These articles are laughable on their face.

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Apr 9, 2024

It would have provided $20 billion in extra emergency funding to buy 50,000 detention beds, to hire 4,300 new asylum officers, 100 new immigration judges, 1,500 border patrol agents, 1,000 new deportation officers.

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Apr 9, 2024

The President has finally, after over 1,100 days into his administration, admitted that he does have the authority

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Apr 9, 2024

Immigrants do make our Nation stronger.

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Apr 8, 2024

I think we have made a really bad bet on doubling down on Tiltrotor technology that has proved to be deadly, and has proved to be wildly expensive.

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Apr 8, 2024

The Army reversed itself, cancelled that program, which is going to put us in a position to have to rely on the Black Hawk in the short term to do a lot more work.

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Apr 8, 2024

20 service members lost in the last 2 years. 60 service members lost overall to the Osprey.

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Apr 8, 2024

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Good to see you all. Thank you all for your service.

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Apr 8, 2024

You have to protect the people, the civilians in the battle space, otherwise you create more terrorist going forward.

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Apr 8, 2024

It is pretty stunning to me how this country and our allies fail to learn recent history lessons.

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Apr 8, 2024

I think you are right that there is a strategic and a moral reason to care about the number of civilian casualties in Gaza.

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Apr 8, 2024

If Israel's strategy is making it more likely, not less likely, that future terrorist attacks will occur, then it is not an effective strategy.

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Apr 8, 2024

The decision to move forward with the ECU to the F135 over trying to integrate AETP was deemed the most cost effective and safest solution for our servicemembers.

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Apr 8, 2024

I have a lot of concerns about the impact of this decision on Guard members' pay and benefit.

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