Chris Murphy

And so, why don’t we just do something about it? My plea was honest, really. I mean, I don’t want to call out Republicans tonight. I just want to ask them, please, please, whatever you can vote for, come and talk to me about it. I’m…

Yes. Listen, my heart is exploding for Texas, but also for these families in Sandy Hook that I know so well. They’re literally reliving their nightmare right now. I’m a parent. I’m literally talking to you at the same time that I’m…

It`s not a coincidence that when you pair up the list of the states in this nation that have the highest rates of gun violence, they are the list of states that have the highest rates of gun ownership.

I truly can`t imagine anything more ghoulish, more -- just morally repugnant, than to go cheer on the cult of American guns three days after this in the state where it happened.

It`s unthinkable. It`s unthinkable. And I just know that that community will never ever recover from this.

And I want to be clear, well, I want to make sure people understand that every single day, there are over 100 people dying from guns.

14 kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African-American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we…

The rivers of blood will one day run deep enough and the slaughters tragic enough that these politicians will say, OK, that`s enough, let`s do something, because their tolerance for blood and the NRA`s tolerance for slaughter are bottomless

I understand my Republican colleagues will not agree to everything that I may support. But there is a common denominator that we can find. There is a place where we can achieve agreement.

What are we doing? In Sandy Hook elementary school after those kids came back into those classroom, they had to adopt a practice.

Why? Why are we here? If not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through? What Uvalde is going through?

It’s about the access to weapons.

Spare me the B.S. about mental illness. We don’t have any more mental illness than any other country in the world.

Sandy Hook will never, ever be the same. This community in Texas will never, ever be the same. Why? Why are we here, if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through, what…

The 14 Kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? What are we doing? Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate? Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job of putting…

I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.

This matters because everybody is watching. The Chinese are watching.

The next few weeks are critical, because as Russia's objectives start to become more limited, we have the opportunity to push them back on their heels.

We are all absolutely blown away by the capacity and the heroism of the Ukrainian people and their armed forces.

We need to get low pro-choice senators, which means more Democrats, but we also need to get more people in the Senate who aren`t going to let the rule stand in a way of the majority of Americans, 65 percent of which don`t want the…

Well, as Barack Obama once famously said, I`m not against all wars, I`m just against dumb wars.

We`ve got to win elections.

We provide a lot of technical assistance on how countries can connect to other energy systems, but we have always been, I think, far too reluctant to put hard dollars on the table in Russia's neighborhood.

The greatest need that exists to stabilize economies right now in Eastern Europe is assistance on the future of energy

This is long overdue. In a world in which we are starved for resources, here lies for the time being, $3.5 billion that is ready to go.