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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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Jan 11, 2022

There is no evidence to suggest that is the case. In fact, if you look at the period of time since we withdrew from the agreement all we have seen is an increased level of Iranian involvement in Yemen.

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Jan 11, 2022

We support the aspirations of millions of Filipinos who want to live in a society characterized by good governance, human rights protections, and the rule of law.

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Jan 11, 2022

We have to get into a deescalatory cycle in Yemen in order to get to the table.

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Jan 10, 2022

Thank you, Dr. Walensky, for that and for your commitment to keeping our schools open.

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Jan 10, 2022

Schools should be the first places to open and the last places to close.

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Jan 10, 2022

Thank you for calling out this agenda for what it is, an attempt to score political points, to build a political power base around the denial of science and around personal attacks on you and your family.

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Jan 10, 2022

You shouldn't have to put your life at risk. You shouldn't have put your family's life at risk to simply stand up and do your job to try to protect my constituents from a pandemic disease.

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Jan 7, 2022

The scariest thing about this is it`s now 100 percent clear you can`t win the Republican nomination for president if you oppose political violence.

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Jan 5, 2022

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order under the provisions of S. Res. 484 and do so as a further mark of respect for the late Johnny Isakson…

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Dec 14, 2021

I want America to pay our bills but ask those parents in Sandy Hook whether they would trade a temporary debt default for another ten minutes with their dead first graders.

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Dec 6, 2021

To bet against Ukrainian patriotism is very, very dangerous.

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Dec 6, 2021

Putin is making a bet here that an invasion of Ukraine today may look like it did 60 years ago.

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Dec 6, 2021

I do not think we need to persuade Secretary Nuland, but right now there are no plans in the Administration to put DFC dollars behind Three Seas.

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Dec 6, 2021

Is this not an opportunity for the United States to step up and take some of these customers away from Russia's gas station?

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Dec 6, 2021

They have not only gotten a taste of independence since their break from the Soviet Union, but in the last 10 years they have got a sense of what real self-determination looks like.

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Dec 6, 2021

We make a choice to populate this country with wildly powerful guns that are designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible. And we get the policy that we have chosen to live with.

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Dec 6, 2021

You care about life? Then get these dangerous, military style weapons off the streets out of our schools. You care about life? Make sure that criminals don`t get guns by making sure that everybody goes through a background check in this…

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Dec 3, 2021

This only happens in the United States of America. There’s no other nation in the high-income world in which kids worry about being shot when they go to school. It happens here in America because we choose to let it happen. We’re not…

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Dec 1, 2021

Ultimately, you`re back to this conversation about restoring the Senate, about getting the Senate to a place where this tiny minority can`t stop us from doing business.

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Dec 1, 2021

To do that in the middle of a pandemic, to do that at the very moment that this new variant is approaching the United States, to lay off public health professionals, to compromise the safety of our hospitals right now, at this moment, it`s…

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Dec 1, 2021

Republicans, as you see now, are saying the quiet things out loud. They are telling America they`re rooting for higher prices, because they think that will help them politically.

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Dec 1, 2021

Yes, it`s pretty incredible, I mean, the lack of concern for life by Republicans, given their cavalier attitude about the 700,000 Americans who have died, given their complete uncaring attitude about the 100 people every single day who die…

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Dec 1, 2021

Rules reform at some point has to be on the table to disempower this radical minority.

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Dec 1, 2021

To do that in the middle of a pandemic, to do that at the very moment that this new variant is approaching the United States, to lay off public health professionals, to compromise the safety of our hospitals right now, it`s chilling, and…

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Dec 1, 2021

Republicans are saying the quiet things out loud. They are telling America they`re rooting for higher prices, because they think that will help them politically.

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