Chris Murphy

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

It should be front and center on every visitor's agenda when they come to the Capitol.

These are big, complicated Agencies to run. We appreciate your willingness to be up to the job on a daily basis.

We're ready. As you know, the state has made unprecedented investments in the sub-base...

The oversight board's involvement...very detailed involvement, I would argue, over prescriptive involvement in the dispensing of these dollars.

I know this is something that you are pursuing as well. Correct?

We have a lot of other people who just seem intent on pushing their own spin.

There is a lot of discussion about a general assault on the idea of objective truth these days

CBO has said it is going to add about $1.9 trillion to the deficit over the first 10 years.

We have to make sure, as a subcommittee, that we are protecting CBO and allowing you to do the nonpartisan, fact-based work that helps us do our jobs.

Really a pleasure to be joining you as Ranking Member on this subcommittee; we can build on some really great bipartisan work that both Senator Lankford and I were able to do.

We think we are cutting off our nose to spite our face as the supply chain moves overseas.

Secretary Mnuchin has said that he thinks it will all actually reduce the deficit because of increase economic growth.

It's good news, but it's also a challenge for the Department to be able to get those vouchers out the door in a short period of time.

I wanted to get your commitment to have a further conversation about it to hear some of my ideas on how HUD could be helpful...

I wanted to bring to your attention a really pressing issue in Connecticut that I know the Department is aware of...

And we have been unsuccessful in changing their mind for 5 years, and we expect things to change.

Admitting that you made a mistake is a very difficult thing.

I want to commend you on comments that you made before President Trump's opioid commission.

The President's denials of Russian financial ties

I think it is charitable to call what we are doing in Syria today a strategy.

The rationale for U.S. military troops in Syria has been to fight ISIS, and I think many of us support that even if we do not believe the authorization exists.

Many of us have had misgivings about how the executive has expanded the ability to act unilaterally without congressional authorization both in this Administration and in prior Administrations.

By refusing to condemn attacks on the special counsel, I mean, really over the line attacks that are not shared by Republicans here in Congress, you are frustrating the work of the special counsel.

I think it would be really troubling if you could not say here today that you do not believe that the Mueller investigation is an attack on America.