Chris Murphy

The basic public health measures we need to help kids keep safe and learning in school should not be political, they should be American.

For the information of the Senate, we expect four rollcall votes beginning at around 8 p.m. Those votes will be cloture on the Medina, Phee, Robinson, and Lewis nominations.

She was able to lead an effort to redesign the city plan and the city's zoning laws.

I think Senator Blumenthal has covered it well.

She is a nationally acknowledged expert on zoning and land use law.

You really could not pick somebody better suited for this role.

These endless wars overseas don’t make the country safer. And, in fact, it’s time to acknowledge that the most significant threats to the country are not conventional military threats, are not potential invading armies. They are things…

That`s just a win-win, a win for taxpayers, a win for seniors.

You have got to give Medicare the power to use its huge purchasing power to negotiate directly with drug companies.

We`re going to use those savings in order to add dental benefits, vision benefits and hearing benefits to Medicare.

So, this is just absolutely crazy that we allow the drug industry to continue to make billions of dollars of profit off of us, right?

Let`s just decide what the American people need in order to survive. And I think we can find consensus if we sort of build the agenda from the bottom up.

What Biden`s plan is seeking to do is to take power from corporations and billionaires and millionaires and deliver it to the Middle America, to middle-class families and poor families who have been struggling to make ends meet.

It was impossible for Americans to watch...if we just simply leave today believing that if we had planned better...

Could it be expected that a few thousand U.S. troops and diplomats on the ground at the time would have been able to prevent this panic?

As it turns out, it was not within our control to be able to stand up an American-style democracy.

My worry...is that the malady that we suffered for the last 20 years...is plaguing us again today.

So it was not a decision between leaving and the status quo? This was a decision between a significant commitment of new U.S. resources to the fight or the continuation of a withdrawal plan?

So if the Taliban had begun a siege on these cities and resumed attacks on U.S. troops, would 2,500 troops have been enough to keep the country from falling to the Taliban?

It is extraordinary that this Administration got 130,000 people out of Afghanistan, given those circumstances.

If President Biden had chosen to breach the agreement that President Trump had signed with the Taliban, would the Taliban have restarted attacks against U.S. troops and bases?

I think what links our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan is that they are both fundamentally failures of hubris.

Were 2,500 or 5,000 troops enough to stop the Afghan people from rushing to the airport?

If we want it to be a bit harder to stay in a war and a little bit easier to get out of wars, then I also think the media has to even out the balance of their coverage.

It’s frankly up to us in Congress to use this moment right now when Democrats control the House and the Senate to reorient the tool kit of an American president.