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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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Jun 30, 2026

If you ask Democrats in an open survey what they think the minimum wage should be, they say $27. If you ask Republicans, independents, they say $26.

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Jun 30, 2026

We urge you to listen to the growing opposition from veterans and publicly commit to addressing their concerns.

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Jun 30, 2026

We write for a second time regarding the unconstitutional and illegal attempt to transform the United States Postal Service into an election administration agency controlled by the White House and President Trump.

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Jun 30, 2026

Ultimately, the proposed rule seeks to create a centralized national absentee voter database with individualized barcodes connected to the voters’ names under the control of the President that contains the voting information of millions of…

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Jun 30, 2026

It's not like we can't pay a $25 minimum wage. We just choose not to because we've become okay with dozens and dozens of people in this country making hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Jun 30, 2026

We are equally opposed to the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act because it codifies the same harmful reductions in benefits for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea benefits.

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Jun 30, 2026

I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the table last week – a $25 minimum wage.

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Jun 30, 2026

The Supreme Court has become a willing partner in President Trump’s authoritarian power grab. First, they granted Trump blanket immunity from any crimes he commits in office, and now they’ve given him complete control over our federal…

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Jun 30, 2026

We urge you to honor that commitment by abandoning these proposals and to further reject any legislation that would permanently cut off these benefits to veterans.

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Jun 29, 2026

Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York. It is the president of the United States that is trying to destroy American democracy, and the Democratic Party, left, right and center is…

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Jun 29, 2026

There’s no evidence, zero evidence in this country, that there is a problem at scale with people faking their identification in elections.

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Jun 29, 2026

Listen, it’s no secret, voters aren’t super happy with establishment Democrats or establishment Republicans these days. I will say, though, what binds together I think every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New…

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Jun 28, 2026

Iran is making no new commitments. They are agreeing to open the Strait. The Strait was open before the war began.

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Jun 28, 2026

Well, we proved that if you pass legislation that just makes it a little bit harder for the wrong people to get their hands on weapons, people who have serious criminal convictions, people who are mentally ill, you make it a little bit…

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Jun 27, 2026

The gun lobby has a habit of arguing that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The gun lobby says the answer to gun violence is more guns. Well, we proved that if you pass legislation that just makes it a…

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Jun 27, 2026

I am hopeful that I am wrong about these negotiations. I am hopeful that new leverage will materialize, but I don't see any leverage at all.

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Jun 27, 2026

four years ago, after the awful shooting in Uvalde, four senators got together, supported by another bigger ring of bipartisan senators, and we were able to come up with a bill that was not perfect, was not everything that I wanted, or…

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Jun 27, 2026

[Tax breaks] are designed to compensate for a rigged system. Why don’t we just unrig the system?

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Jun 27, 2026

The business community cried murder, and the job losses they predicted did not materialize.

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Jun 27, 2026

People don’t want to be written a check. People want to work for pay.

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Jun 27, 2026

This is all good news. There are more people alive today because something is changing in America, and while it is still unacceptable that we are averaging a mass shooting every day in this country, the numbers are unquestionably heading…

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Jun 27, 2026

The way you solve people’s basic economic problem — not having enough money to pay the bills — is by making a minimum wage be a living wage.

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Jun 27, 2026

Democrats need to offer solutions that are as big as the problems people are facing.

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Jun 27, 2026

this is maybe the secret sauce. This is maybe the biggest explanation as to why numbers are going down. What we find in community after community that are plagued with high rates of gun violence is that it is normally a very small group of…

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Jun 26, 2026

There is no reason that somebody should go to work full time in this country and not be able to pay their bills.

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