Chris Murphy

The most important qualification is that you show up on Donald Trump's T.V. screen and if you're successful in that endeavor, then you seem to be a top candidate to get a whole bunch of top positions in the U.S. government.

Our resolution pulls the United States out of that military coalition with Saudi Arabia. And given what a high priority that coalition is to the Saudis, it's probably the most important, the most impactful signal that you can send to them.

The cover-up was run by the Saudi government and Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, is effectively in charge of national security inside Saudi Arabia.

But increasingly, they are doing things that are hurting the United States, whether it'd be the war in Yemen or this crackdown on the free press.

There are absolutely others. This is not the only substantial figure in the family who could lead that country moving forward.

But I think we're going to have to ask some deeper questions about why we have become so pliant to the Saudis when we already have all the evidence we need to know that they had been lying to the world and to the American public.

This whole this is a cover up. I think that's what the facts will eventually be. But we know one fact for sure and that was for two weeks the Saudis lied and tried to get away with it when they knew that he was dead.

Well, the jury is not really still out on this question. I love the response, we'll see if they're going to be transparent. They lied. They lied for two weeks. They let the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo go over to Saudi Arabia, stand next…

I also agree with Senator Murray's concerns around the way in which this administration is failing to enforce many of the accountability metrics.

That, to me, would suggest that it was the clear intent of those who wrote the bill on this Committee to deny the use of those funds to arm our teachers.

I disagree with Senator Alexander with respect to the ability that the Secretary has to allow Title IV funds to be used to arm teachers.

We have a sense of what a gold standard is here, and we passed a resolution making sure that there are no enrichment or reprocessing abilities for the Saudis.

I think it is important to understand that even given these Russian compliance problems, we can work through them.

Following National Security Advisor John Bolton's meeting with his Russian counterpart in Geneva at the end of August, he stated that the administration was the very early stages of a review regarding the pros and cons of extending the…

You ought to be spending more on defense and doing all these other things not as a favor to us but as a favor to yourselves.

The President has talked down NATO and diminished NATO.

The President is making up foreign policy on a day-by-day basis.

So your understanding is their commitment is upon our definition.

What is most important is that those two statements link, is that they have agreed to denuclearize according to our definition of denuclearization.

I understand you want to rewrite the Obama policy on Russia, but that is simply not true.

How do I know the difference between a presidential statement that is not a policy and a statement that is?

So can you at least understand why we are concerned about the President raising questions about the utility of the United States defending Montenegro?

What I am trying to suggest to you is that what the President says is U.S. policy because our allies and our adversaries make decisions based upon those comments.

There is no inference. I mean, it is a statement from the President in which he says that the Russian interference in the U.S. election is a hoax from July 22nd.

Paul, I thank the House and your leadership for moving so many bills dealing with the opioid problem that are both life changing and life saving. It is rare that so much is done in this Chamber, that to think about the 60-plus thousand…