Chris Murphy

You want to end the crisis? Stop economic warfare. Stop it.

The Houthis are not monolithic, and while they, certainly, have drawn closer to Iran by necessity as this conflict has grown, there are elements of the Houthis that are uncomfortable with that that may provide us with some opportunity here.

I think you are right to suggest it is not easy to predict what the Iranians are going to do, whether we are inside or outside of the JCPOA.

I wanted to talk about the conditions necessary for a restart of ceasefire discussions.

It is why I included in my question a query as to who should be at that table, because that determines what the table talks about and what the result of that conversation is, I think an important expectation to set--a hopeful one--that we…

Just to put it on the record, the Saudis each gave around half a billion dollars in 2019.

There is going to have to be a real spirit of compromise from Saudi Arabia.

This Congress, I will be reintroducing the Living Shorelines Act, which establishes a new federal grant program to support the construction of living shorelines.

It would be embarrassing if the amount of time it took to travel between our Nation's Capital and the city of Boston was the same as it takes to travel between those two major Asian capitals.

I would just recommend to this committee and to others that are working on this, you know, that we take some time to make sure that we are offering a proposal here that prompts other entities to put increased resources into the pool.

I do. Listen, the voters did their part. They put in charge of Congress majorities that support universal background checks. They put a president in the White House who wants to sign that bill. Now, it's up to us to deliver.

I'm at the point, you know, Anderson where I don't want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. I'm sick of this being used as a political cudgel the issue of guns by Republicans and Democrats, I'd rather make some progress.

10 of 11 congressional requirements connected to the construction of the wall were not fully addressed.

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

I think early dialogue on this will be really, really important.

I understand your commitment today that you're not going to harm the mission of other agencies is a really important one.

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

When you ban adult males from being--adult single individuals from being able to apply for asylum, those that have legitimate claims of asylum... are going to do whatever is necessary to get into the United States.

I just 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.

The last Administration waived a whole host of Federal, state, and local laws that would have required a much more thorough vetting of construction activities.

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.

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.

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 because people are coming here in order to flee violence and economic desperation in their home…

We will be in the position of a deficit of demand, and that we will have to be going out and doing outreach to harder to reach communities.