Chris Murphy

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 5:16 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, January 26, 2023, at 10 a.m.

Yes, we got to take a broader look at why all these classified documents are getting out of safe spaces.

I don't want our country turned into an armed encampment. I don't think the solution is for there to be armed police officers, outside of every single church, every single workplace, every single school.

I still have hope that the voters of this country are going to command Republicans, to step up, and do the right thing.

The problem is guns don't pay much attention to state boundaries. California can have strong laws. Connecticut can have strong laws. But weapons cross state lines.

I was sure that Sandy Hook could change everything. And how could you watch that, and not decide to do something about it?

We actually do not have real good information about how and if our sanctions are contributing to the humanitarian crisis inside Venezuela

The humanitarian disaster in Venezuela is first, second, and third a consequence of the regime's unconscionable policies

I support strategic engagement with a purpose and that purpose has to be an election that draws the participation of all political groups.

Recognizing someone as the leader of a country who is not actually the leader of the country, it does not actually make us look strong.

Our sanctions contribute to the humanitarian nightmare, and we can argue that there are good reasons for our sanctions

It is really hard to over hype what a disaster President Trump's Venezuela policy was.

I will just argue that we should be careful to lower our standards when it comes to the end use of this technology simply because the Chinese have no standards.

I share Senator Van Hollen's concerns about both getting that independent report, but also seeking accountability for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.

As much as it is possible in an open setting, my goal in this hearing is to have a frank conversation so that we can appropriately factor China's Middle East goals as we right-size American goals.

I would just simply encourage my colleagues on the committee and, specifically, on the subcommittee to get that classified brief regarding some of the very difficult decisions the Administration has to make about technology conflicts in…

The United States has been the dominant power in the Middle East for decades.

Now, that is just good diplomacy because China is doing that at scale.

The ability to create a more diverse permanent staffing pipeline can take some time, but you can very quickly make sure that we have a diverse set of voices representing the United States abroad.

One of the recommendations that we made as part of that report was to revitalize the Office of Subnational Diplomacy at the Department of State.

I think this bill will pass. I think this bill will get more than 60 votes in the United States Senate. And I hope that we bring it up for a vote very quickly.

Every single year the Saudis, and the Emiratis in particular, make these big, public pledges as to how much they are going to support food assistance and humanitarian aid in Yemen, and then every single year it is like pulling teeth to get…

There is only one reason for that, and that is Russia's decision to try to use starvation as a tool to benefit Bashar al-Assad.

The ceasefire has to be a mechanism to a political dialogue that eventually gets a return of the Yemeni Government to the Yemeni people.

It is really hard in one hearing to categorize all the ways in which the Russians are using starvation as a deliberate tactic, not just in Ukraine, but all over the world.