Chris Murphy

I am working on legislation right now with the American Medical Association that would set up an interagency effort housed within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to try to bring together both government agencies, think…

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

In 2017 Senator Portman and I authored and passed into law, the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act.

Why let Republicans decide the size of an infrastructure bill, when reconciliation is a perfectly legitimate process used unapologetically by the GOP when they were in power to do a bill that will actually make a difference? It’s not…

We should stand squarely behind their right to make it. And now with the downing of this plane, with a state sponsored hijacking having taken place, we need to send an unequivocal message to the world and other dictators who would-be…

This is about American bigness, it`s about American boldness, and it is perfectly timed as the president makes his first foray back to Europe.

It was America that offered the big solutions to the big problems of the world, right? It was America that invented the Internet. It was America that saved democracy in Europe after World War II.

Well, I think this is an extraordinary announcement and it`s a recognition that American power really, in the end, is not about our Army, our Navy, our Air Force. It`s about our example. It`s about our reputation.

These are State-licensed facilities, as the Secretary said repeatedly.

What they tell us explicitly they are after is the release of political prisoners and the conduct of a new election.

This is about a country that would like the opportunity to find some prosperity and stability for its own citizens.

It is important to recognize what the Belarusian opposition is asking for and how it is different.

What we see from the opposition is a clear desire--it is different from what happened in Ukraine.

Giving players the right to share in revenues generated is not a new concept and is a common practice in professional sports.

I am deeply grateful to her for how much work she put in to trying to help us develop sound Federal policy.

What it does is result in 50 percent of the population being out of work which unfortunately tends to feed Hamas narrative.

I want to applaud you and the President for your quiet and effective diplomacy in bringing an end to the crisis in Israel and inside Gaza.

I think that the request that we made is appropriate and will enable it not only to sustain, but to actually grow its mission.

I think it is important for us to ask what we got for those sanctions.

I will be very brief.

However, if you allow its ballistic missile program to move forward and it develops a delivery system for that nuclear material, and if you lift sanctions--and, yes, they roll back for the moment, a year, 2 years, 3 years.

I know that Senator Kaine is very good at making the case for the JCPOA, and it is true that Iran signed and said that it would never have a nuclear weapon.

It is amazing to me that what was a NATO ally--is a NATO ally--but we had great aspirations for.

The more serious we are in Washington of that re-capturing power for the people away from the corrupt elites, the better we’ll be at convincing governments like those in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to clean up their own act.

We can’t be a credible interlocutor for fighting corruption when, you know, we have our own oligarchs who are increasingly in charge of the decisions being made in Washington and state capitols.