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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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Sep 23, 2020

You shouldn't. You shouldn't. You can't believe Lindsey Graham, you can't believe the president, you can't believe Mitch McConnell. They have made it 100 percent clear that there is only one motivation that drives them. And it is not…

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Sep 23, 2020

We are going to leave no stone unturned to make sure that the voters decide this election, not Donald Trump, not lawyers, not AR-15-wielding protesters in the street.

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Sep 22, 2020

the Russian Federation has a Constitution, and if you read Russia's Constitution, you would know that Russia is a democracy. Why? Because their Constitution guarantees the existence of a vibrant, multiparty political system. The Russian…

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Sep 20, 2020

It's just treachery, by the way for them to deny President Obama's nominee under the rule that you can't confirm anybody in an election year and then just four years later, admit that they were lying in 2016 when they set that rule.

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Sep 20, 2020

I think that this ultimately will end the political career of some of my Republican colleagues.

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Sep 20, 2020

Well, it's not over in part, because we don't even know who the nominee is. I mean, maybe you can come to the conclusion that the Republican Party has just become a big cult of personality, and so there's no drama as to whether or not…

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Sep 16, 2020

I don't believe that those companies are going to back up the President's statement if they aren't grounded in empirical facts.

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Sep 16, 2020

there are definitely White House hands on things the CDC is saying, and at some point he probably has to admit to that.

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Sep 16, 2020

I worry that he is trying to sort of -- sort of have his moral center justify him remaining, while still sort of being OK with an amount of influence from the White House that is perverting the science.

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Sep 16, 2020

The President seems to place a different value on the lives of people who live in red states and blue states, which is so curious because the present is frankly endangering the lives of his own supporters every day that he models this kind…

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Sep 16, 2020

the truth being that masks work, that social distancing is important, and that the vaccine isn't coming in the next 60 days.

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Aug 31, 2020

What the President is doing is to frankly send a clear message to others that might bring guns to protests, that would drive their cars into very volatile places like the streets of Portland. He sending a message of encouragement.

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Aug 31, 2020

This book is about America's natural predilection to violence. As humans, we have a natural predilection to violence, and the book tells that story.

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Aug 31, 2020

I do stand by that. I know that sounds harsh, but this is a president who knew exactly what he was doing.

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Aug 31, 2020

Let's call a spade a spade. The President knows exactly what he is doing. He's refusing to model the right behavior for the American public and that is going to result in people dying.

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Aug 31, 2020

America has this responsibility, I argue in the book, to be more careful about gun laws than any other place because it is access to weapons, especially really powerful weapons that turns, you know, just ordinary everyday argument into a…

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Aug 31, 2020

deliberately killing people.

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Aug 3, 2020

I am very hopeful that this administration and our intelligence services will make that information public.

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Aug 3, 2020

Yes, there just aren't these sort of secret bands of vigilante absentee and mail-in voter fraudsters, they don't exist, so the President sort of making up a problem that isn't real.

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Aug 3, 2020

There are foreign governments that have active interference operations underway in this country.

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Jul 27, 2020

when people talk about this body being fundamentally broken under Republican leadership, this is exhibit A. This is exhibit A. This body has had 2 months to consider legislation that would stand up a national effort to squash this pandemic…

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Jul 23, 2020

Senator Merkley and I serve on the Foreign Relations Committee together, and what we have watched together, over the course of our time on that committee, is a reversal of what was called by some scholars ``the end of history.'' There was…

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Jul 23, 2020

Thank you for the question. This is what led me to join with many of my other colleagues, as I mentioned, including Senator Schumer, to introduce the legislation in the wake of the protests in our Nation's Capital. Accountability is also a…

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