“This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small businesses out of business, if gas prices remain at $5 through this summer.”

“Of course, we are seeing billions of dollars having been spent by businesses, by farms, by consumers, because gas prices are out of control. This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small…

“If we had taken this money that we've spent in just two and a half months of war and applied it to medical research, we would double this year's budget for medical research.”

I knew the deal was likely going to be humiliating for the United States of America, but I didn't know it was going to be this humiliating. I didn't know the deal was going to be this bad.

These nuclear negotiations are just destined to fail. I hope I'm wrong, but on the back side of this war, the President has almost no leverage.

The war needs to end basically upon any terms, but it is important for us tonight, as we are reading the details of this agreement, to understand how the terms of this agreement are final, clear, and total proof of how calamitous this war…

“Loneliness can be a silent killer for the elderly and people with disabilities and we need to do a lot more to protect these vulnerable groups from social isolation and help them find community,” said Murphy.

“The challenge of loneliness isn’t going anywhere and the social connection safety net this bill funds is among the best investments we can make for the mental and physical health of our seniors.”

As gas prices eclipse $6 a gallon in many places, as Americans are killed, as new wars break out in the region, as farms go bankrupt with the ballooning diesel prices, every single day this war has gone on, it has become a worse debacle…

If you have given up all your leverage just to open the strait, you have nothing left to try to get them to come to the table on their nuclear program.

Tackling the loneliness crisis is a shared project, and the government's role is to understand why people feel so angry and alone, and to create a culture and an economy that encourages more social connection.

I'm glad the war is over. But, I'm furious that it has resulted in our nation's humiliation, in Iran becoming stronger, and America becoming weaker.

Americans are feeling more disconnected than ever and it’s a full-blown crisis for our democracy when people retreat to their devices and lose sight of what it means to be part of a community.

All of this was predictable. I've listened to my hardline colleagues argue that the only way to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, or to destroy their missiles, or to stop their support for terrorism, is to go to war with Iran.

The entire scope of this agreement basically boils down to a multi-billion dollar payment to Iran, so that Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz. What a disaster that is.

If what’s reported is real, it’s Iran’s terms. I mean, it’s essentially a surrender.

We cannot extend these capabilities if the president is making clear that he’s going to use them not to protect the nation, but to protect himself politically.

It’s not a close call. We cannot extend these capabilities if the president is making clear that he’s going to use them not to protect the nation, but to protect himself politically.

I think if you're a Republican or Democrat on this committee, you should be really, really freaked out.

This budget proposes a 35% reduction to the Office of Civil Rights.

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.

It’s hard to fathom how deeply evil this is,"

You will agree that this budget reduces, you're proposing to reduce funding for the Department by 35%?

No, it's not…this budget has a 35% proposed reduction for the Office of Civil Rights.

You must stop padding the pockets of immigration industry CEOs. You must rein in this out-of-control overspending.