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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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Nov 30, 2020

As this Republican Party becomes more and more divorced from truth, eventually there is a real threat to democracy.

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Nov 30, 2020

So, as much as folks out there don't really want to hear about process, they just want to get this bill over the finish line and get some relief, get unemployment benefits turned back on, until Mitch McConnell decides to actually negotiate…

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Nov 30, 2020

He is the president of the Senate. He is the majority leader. He is in charge. And as long as he stays outside of the room, there's very little hope to get something done by the end of the year.

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Nov 30, 2020

Nobody is ever going to run for the Secretary of State in Georgia on the Republican ticket ever again who has an ounce of common sense.

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Nov 30, 2020

Trump has created this reservoir, right, of folks who now trade in and soak up conspiracy theories that Republicans are going to attempt to tap into.

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Nov 25, 2020

Joe Biden is going to have a mountain of a job when he gets sworn in. He's going to have to essentially start from scratch with respect to pandemic response.

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Nov 25, 2020

it's very hard, if not impossible, to negotiate a big, complex piece of legislation like a billion dollar relief package without the president.

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Nov 25, 2020

as Donald Trump is continually distracted by this sideshow of contesting the election just because his ego is bruised, we're not at the negotiating table getting a package done to help this country through what is going to be a brutal…

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Nov 24, 2020

But still not a single word from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about whether he will join us in the real world, where Joe Biden is the next president of the United States.

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Nov 24, 2020

People don't understand, what's at stake in Georgia is whether or not there will be any relief, any help for the people who are struggling, and maybe even a vaccine that's distributed properly.

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Nov 24, 2020

But his silence is, frankly, more damaging to the country, because what's happening right now is that 30 to 40 percent of the American public has come to the conclusion that elections are rigged, that they are illegitimate if Democrats win.

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Nov 24, 2020

What we need for Mitch McConnell to do is just enter the negotiating room. He has refused to negotiate with anybody, with Nancy Pelosi, with Chuck Schumer, again, because he's afraid of splitting his caucus.

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Nov 24, 2020

Right now, our focus needs to be on making sure that there is a Senate, there are 50 members of the Senate that will vote to fund the vaccination distribution program in this country.

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Nov 10, 2020

a Republican candidate in California by the name of Errol Webber lost his race for Congress by 72 points, and yet he is not conceding that he has lost. He says: I'm going to the Los Angeles County Registrar's Office to audit the vote…

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Nov 10, 2020

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Blackburn). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

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Nov 1, 2020

Anybody that shows up tomorrow with the intent of harassing a voter to interfere in the election is committing a state crime, but also committing a federal crime. You are going to get arrested, you are going to do jail time.

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Nov 1, 2020

I think you're going to have a huge turnout tomorrow of Democratic voters, young voters, black voters, Latino voters, populations that often wait until Election Day to show up.

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Nov 1, 2020

Well, what you have to understand is that there are right wing extremist (inaudible) for months who are pushing Trump's order to violence, making claims there is going to be a Democrat coup on Election Day.

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Nov 1, 2020

The impression he is creating is not reality. Voting is going to be safe tomorrow.

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Oct 25, 2020

first, let me thank the Presiding Officer, the staff on the floor, and the staff in both caucus rooms, for putting up with a very, very late night to take the floor just past 3:30 in the morning. I thank my friend Senator Schatz for…

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Oct 22, 2020

there are a lot of inscriptions--famous words, inspirational sayings--that are detailed into and painted onto the walls of the Capitol. One of my favorites, which I think also happens to be one of the shortest, adorns a wall, I believe, on…

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Oct 1, 2020

In order to do that, they have to pledge allegiance. In order to do that, they have to act just like their leader. And President Trump has made it very clear that if you're wearing a mask, you aren't on my team.

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Oct 1, 2020

If you want to protect the Affordable Care Act, you have to focus not only on the White House, but on replacing Mitch McConnell because he is going to do everything possible to try to facilitate every means whether it be legislative or…

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Oct 1, 2020

We thought it was really important to give Republicans a chance to go on the record in support of a court case that will end up ending protections for 130 million people with pre-existing conditions.

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Sep 29, 2020

Wendy is a constituent of mine from Stanford, CT, and she tells a story that is going to sound incredibly familiar to folks who have been part of this healthcare debate over the last 10 years in this Chamber. She said: When my daughter was…

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