Chris Murphy

I further ask that the Durbin amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to; that the bill, as amended, be considered read three times and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no…

Legislation introduced by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Senate HELP Committee Member Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), S. 509 the 'Leveraging Integrated Networks in Communities (LINC) to Address Social Needs Act' aims to assist states in building…

Tonight, my colleagues and I are going to come to the floor and I hope some will join me to read into the record the names of individuals who have been lost to gun violence in 2021, as a way to make sure we recognize who they are and the…

What Russia is really betting on is that they can destabilize the politics and economics of both of these nations.

In the wake of 2008, the United States made a sizable commitment to Georgia in the neighborhood of a billion dollars.

So, I would argue start with a background checks bill and then use that bipartisan coalition to try to move on to other reforms after that.

It absolutely is. But, you know, back to data. You know, let's be very clear, when we had a ban on assault weapons from 1994 to 2004, we saw a significant reduction in mass shootings.

But there's a strong version of expanded background checks that he does support.

So, the data is just 100 percent clear, and Republicans have sort of resorted to raising their voice because the American public isn't on their side. Ten percent of the country agrees with Ted Cruz, 90 percent of the country agrees with me.

Ted Cruz is really good at yelling. He's not good at telling the truth. And the truth is that states with stronger gun laws have lower rates of gun violence, communities with higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of gun violence.

I think there's a reason that Mitch McConnell refused to bring a background checks vote before the Senate for the last five years. It's because he was afraid -- there would be 60 votes to pass it because there's a lot of Republican…

It's not just the families who grieve it's the trauma that just washes over these communities like waves and the weeks and months afterwards. Is it going to be hard? This is going to be difficult. But to honor those 20 lives and six more…

His path as a lawmaker was shaped by the trauma of the mass shooting of school kids in his state.

I worked hard for reform after the killings at Sandy Hook Elementary.

This is the moment to make our stand. Now. Today our movement is stronger than the gun lobby. They are weak. We are potent. Finally a President and a Congress that supports gun reform. No more Newtowns. No more Parklands. No more Boulders…

What Republicans are standing in the way of is a civil rights issue.

We have to address policies that fix all of that, not just the mass casualties that show up on the news.

The biggest specter that haunts the folks that ends up making this dangerous journey tends to be gun violence in places like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, among others.

This is being driven by conditions back in Mexico, back in Central America. And if we don’t help those countries increase their prosperity and their security, then we’re going to continue to see these refugees show up at our border.

In the situation in Georgia had we just had a waiting period of 24 to 48 hours, like exists in some states, it is possible that that shooting would have never happened.

When Congress doesn’t do anything year after year, decade after decade in the wake of mass shooting after mass shooting, these minds that are starting to become unhinged imply that it’s OK.

Well, I`m thinking a lot about the families in Newtown today because what I know is that every single time, there`s another mass shooting, they relive the experiences of December 2012.

I wouldn`t want my children to be in those detention facilities. But this isn`t 2019. These aren`t cages. There are doctors and child care workers there. And the Biden administration is trying to deal with a mess they were left from the…

You have made it clear that masks saved lives.

We have no capacity to do that nor do we, frankly, have any strategy that would involve integration of U.S. diplomats with private sector contracts in any meaningful way.