Chris Murphy

It takes a lot of guts to come down to this committee and lecture the Administration about the conduct of foreign policy

I think it is absolutely critical. I am arguing that the Administration double-down on our involvement.

We need to be positioned in order to counteract that narrative and that is why it is so egregious that we do not have ambassadors and that we have had a log jam here in Congress trying to get our diplomatic team deployed to Europe.

What are you doing here? If you don`t meet with your constituents and you spend all your time doing everything except talking to them, legislating, all while holding up your party`s entire agenda, maybe you know, you don`t want to be…

They see the lack of our ability to get over this pandemic because of our inability to get people vaccinated, as a barrier to folks going back to work.

Vaccine mandates, whether they be public sector or private sector mandates that is a way to get people back into the workforce.

I appreciate that he shares a view on vaccines with many other Republicans. I will just say my constituents see it differently in Connecticut.

This is a mounting national security crisis for this country.

I cannot imagine anything more dangerous than not having an ambassador, an incredibly qualified ambassador, in Poland right now.

When the Obama administration negotiated the Paris Accords, it was critical that they secure commitments from the fastest-growing economies.

I have introduced legislation, the Biological Weapons Policy Act, that would give our country team in China a larger role in ensuring that biological research cooperation with China does not put us or the world at risk.

Advancing human rights must continue to be a central priority in our China policy.

Despite China's massive and unconstrained nuclear build-up, the administration is considering a sole purpose nuclear declaratory policy that would put U.S. allies at immense risk.

If confirmed, rule of law reform and combating corruption would be among my top priorities.

If we believe in a Europe whole, free, prosperous, and at peace, and that has been a bipartisan national security objective for my entire career, then we need to address that and push back against malign influence.

We are for a democratic, prosperous, multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina that takes its place in the Euro-Atlantic family of nations.

I want to underscore that the United States strongly supports NATO's open door policy and the membership aspirations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Rhetoric and actions that put that at risk and put at risk Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration... is both counterproductive, self-defeating, and itself quite risky.

My position is that we can be even more aligned because, optimally, our main objective is to see real reform in Cuba.

Our presence, our engagement, is critically important to motivating and pressing the domestic parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina to do the right thing.

I want to--I think it is really important to state clearly that we are fully committed to sovereignty and territorial integrity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The key challenge there and one I will make a priority, if confirmed, is to encourage the Government to press forward with its reform program.

Yes, it was not. I see today is a good day. This is a bit of an artificial deadline that was created by the Speaker of the House.

We can’t lose a single vote in the United States Senate. We have to come up with a major historic investment in regular people, in average, middle class families.

Let's be clear, there is nothing honorable about putting kids and educators and their families at risk to score political points.