Chris Murphy

What are the consequences of these visas not being granted?

We all around the world stand for the idea that no government should curtail the right of the press to be able to tell objective stories about what is happening on the ground but, in particular, in Ethiopia and Tigray.

We recognize the tremendous risks that they have taken and the sacrifices that they have made, especially during the past year and a half.

New investments in cybersecurity are needed in the wake of these unprecedented attacks on our networks.

Natural disasters are becoming more fierce and more frequent.

The Coast Guard, faced with critical antiterrorism and drug interdiction missions, is in need of long overdue capitalization.

The World Health Organization is the most influential global public health institution in the world, whether my friends like it or not.

The answer is for the United States to double down and make sure that any grievances we have are addressed.

It is an oversimplification to suggest that they are in the pocket of the Chinese government.

I hope that you'll also work with those of us that represent a lot of small communities...

I just think that's an important thing for our committee to consider.

I think the border wall is a terrible idea, a waste of taxpayer money, an invitation to continue to seed these illegitimate fears of immigrants.

I mean, obviously this is going to have to either come from other parts of the budget or there's going to have to be a supplemental made and I share the concern that if it's a transfer request, there will have to be some difficult choices…

What I've seen, though, is that the GAO in particular has made some findings about the process used to build the border wall that are pretty stunning.

I look forward to working with you on that appropriations request to make sure that there aren't redundancies created with other agencies who have been in this space.

I would hope that the Administration is taking a look at the impact of those broad-based waivers, as well.

I think it's so important to be able to shift our spending away from disaster response to prevention.

I just couldn't believe the choices that were being made. I couldn't believe the choice to, you know, round up mothers with medically-fragile children, separate them from their kids to send them back home.

I hope that we get to have a meaningful discussion today about the border and the many other challenges that are facing the department.

That was an inhumane un-American policy. We should all celebrate its end.

So I'm a new chairman of this committee. I took the job knowing about the politics that surround this issue.

Migrants, as it turns out, don't really care who the President of the United States is.

I understand that it's a lot easier to use the issue of migration as a political cudgel than to see it as a problem that needs to get solved.

The bottom line is that President Trump's rhetoric and the cruelty of family separation didn't stop people from coming to the United States.

These kids are not security concerns.