Chris Murphy

I do not understand why your participation in some of the elements of that investigation would render you unable to tell us that you do not believe the investigation is an attack on America or an attack on all we stand for.

The presence that United States used to have just simply is not there, and other countries are taking advantage.

So given the fact that a TIFIA loan has never defaulted, that a state has never not repaid the Federal Government.

But you are saying that even though they have to pay that money back, you don't consider that a state contribution. I just don't understand that.

I feel like Senators Booker and Menendez should pay us a fee for asking multiple questions about the Portal Bridge.

We've seen an increase across the country in emergency room visits for opioid overdoses by 30 percent.

The reality is that anybody out there who has tried to access insurance reimbursement knows that it is a whole lot harder to get an insurance company to pay for addiction treatment than it is to fix your broken leg or to address heart…

While Senator Cassidy is still here, let me just put a plug in for the Mental Health Reform Act that we both worked on in consultation with the Chair and Ranking Member that passed in 2016.

I think some commonsense authorities, and I hope that we can talk about that.

It sends a very clear signal to the administration that we are not interested in even having a debate here about complicated questions of legal authority for serious military engagements overseas.

By voting to table the consideration of this resolution, you are voting to stop a debate, a conversation, from happening in the Senate about whether proper authorization exists. Let's be honest about what this first vote is. This first…

I think it would be a mistake if we left this hearing viewing Lebanon through the prism of 'a problem child.'

It certainly didn't sound like today. Again, I'm glad that he's endorsing, you know, the bill that I wrote, but it is just an incremental step forward just to try to make the existing background check system work as it's intended to do.

Well right now Congress is owned by the NRA.

Yes, that's an insane idea that will make our schools less safe not more safe. It's a creation of the gun lobby.

The anti gun violence movement has been growing by leaps and bounds since Sandy Hook. The gun lobby, the gun industry has had a head start on us about 20 years when it comes to political organization, but we are catching up.

That this happens nowhere else other than the United States of America. This epidemic of mass slaughter, the scourge of school shooting after school shooting. It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as…

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has been there, he's been there especially since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary just a little over five years ago.

As a parent, it scares me to death that this body doesn't take seriously the safety of my children.

It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but it's a consequent of our inaction. We are responsible.

I do believe the relationship is the most important factor in getting people to accept that this is helpful to me...

We want to respect the privacy rights of adults, but we also want to make sure that if a doctor feels it's in the best interest of that child...

I am very concerned that the Department of Defense is trying to pull the cover over data that we all use.

Insurgents control more than ever before.

The U.S.-backed coalition controls less territory than ever before.