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Chris Murphy

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Chris Scott Murphy is a United States Senator from Connecticut, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Murphy has been a prominent advocate for various progressive issues, including gun control, healthcare reform, and climate change action. He has played a significant role in national discussions surrounding these topics, often emphasizing the need for legislative changes to address pressing societal challenges.

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Jul 26, 2021

I think it is important enough to find a way forward.

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Jul 26, 2021

Do you commit to fully supporting Israel's right to self-defense and its qualitative military edge, including through U.S. military assistance?

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Jul 26, 2021

Let us eliminate all of the excuses to not go forward with this election.

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Jul 26, 2021

Hezbollah is spinning up a very effective narrative there right now about the United States blockade of energy resources...

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Jul 26, 2021

If I am fortunate enough to be confirmed, I will work with the Israeli Government to assure that that issue is not an obstacle to achieve elections.

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Jul 26, 2021

Trump thrives in a world where government can’t solve people’s problems.

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Jul 26, 2021

If it does blow up, and I don’t think it will, It’s not a done deal for the President’s agenda. Why? Because we have this second process called reconciliation in which we can pass all of this plus the human infrastructure spending that we…

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Jul 26, 2021

I would have hoped for a little bit more robust answer from the panel with respect to the efficacy of masks.

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Jul 26, 2021

It ends the forever wars. So, it would cut off funding automatically for wars that aren’t authorized by Congress.

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Jul 26, 2021

I think this is going to get done. I think it is to be expected that after having gotten the agreement on the broad outline, the details are hard to consummate.

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Jul 26, 2021

I think that given the exceptional nature of this moment... it is not a danger to the overall bottom line of any individual company or the industry writ large to create some special set of rules for these technologies.

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Jul 21, 2021

I am proud Washington State has the fifth highest rate of union membership in the Nation.

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Jul 21, 2021

The results of this campaign against workers' rights have been deeply damaging, especially in light of this pandemic.

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Jul 21, 2021

Just absolutely extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary tactics.

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Jul 21, 2021

Without the ability for unions to argue for a bigger share of that money that ends up in their pockets, and without other effective checks on the explosion of CEO pay, that imbalance just gets worse and worse.

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Jul 21, 2021

Well said. Thank you both. Thank you very much.

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Jul 20, 2021

Senator Sullivan of Alaska and I have introduced legislation that would set up a series of grants to communities to better integrate health care services and social services.

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Jul 20, 2021

I take your point that it maybe is not attributed to the recent decline in life expectancy rates likely because it has been for a very long time a significant contributor to the rate of death in many of our communities, in particular…

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Jul 20, 2021

I think that the importance you place on flexibility and recognizing that every community is different is important.

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Jul 20, 2021

I want to really raise the alarm for what is happening to young adults.

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Jul 20, 2021

Thank you, Senator Collins, for convening this really important hearing.

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Jul 20, 2021

the treatment of the HDP is part of our larger concern about the human rights situation in Turkey.

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Jul 14, 2021

my colleagues, it is not a coincidence that in 2020, gun sales in this country spiked by 40 percent. It is an extraordinary increase in gun sales. And homicides in this country increased by 30 percent. Violent crime is increasing in the…

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Jul 13, 2021

The only way that we fulfill our climate obligations is to get people out of their cars, to convince people to get out of planes, and onto rail lines, the most green of all mass transit options.

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Jul 13, 2021

If that happens, there`s going to be a conversation in this country as to whether we can still be all in this together if voters really don`t -- their opinions don`t matter in certain parts of the country, and their choices can be…

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