Chris Murphy

The President has proposed, I think, $5 billion to support these community-based interventions.

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

We continue to load up the entirety of the Middle East, tribes on different sides of different conflicts with a higher caliber and higher class weapons.

I have been pressing the administration to engage on a ceasefire.

The Israelis in the past have not shown much of a willingness to listen to advice and pressure from the United States.

Well, the President has expressed support for a ceasefire.

I think we have got a-once-in-a-lifetime chance to be able to adapt the rail line for climate.

I think it would be a lot easier to get bipartisan support and taxpayer buy-in with respect to the rail investments, if we find some mechanisms to get state buy-in.

It's inconceivable to me that at least on that topic we cannot find common ground.

I will remind the committee on this general topic that right now, individuals that are on what we would commonly refer to as the Terrorist Watch List are able to buy weapons in gun stores today.

I think an effort that we need to undertake to clarify lines of authority with respect to our work around pandemic prevention and preparedness.

So we have to have a lot more cooperation between the private sector and the public sector.

We think the private industry has been resistant to enforceable government standards around cyber security.

What worries me is that as this denial of reality of this sort of embrace in some ways of domestic terrorist groups occurs within some elements of the Republican Party, it may ultimately affect the decisions that the next Republican…

I worry that Republicans are not taking this seriously.

Yes, I mean, there's this nuclear grade bananas. I mean, the fact that they think they can rewrite the absolutely 100% crystal clear history of that day.

We suffered through 4 years with a president who literally made things up about this virus; who simplified the story over and over and over again.

I hope that this Committee is actively involved with the Administration on the construction of those contracts, to make sure that we are adequately protecting our taxpayers' investment.

That was not good for the Country. It did not help us fight this disease.

I frankly appreciate the fact that we have leaders today who recognize that we still have gaps in information.

I continue to hear from providers about the difficulties that they have treating their patients because of the patchwork of state licensing requirements.

The TREAT Act is really specific to the pandemic. It is an emergency. We should treat it like one.

I think President Biden came to the conclusion, as he said in his remarks, that we are at a point where we have to accept the facts on the ground rather than the fantasy of endless PowerPoint presentations.

The security situation is getting worse, not better.

The conclusion was made that 1 more year or 2 more years was not going to change the trajectory.