Chris Murphy

Should not every single school-based resource officer have some basic training in identifying mental illness?

Often, your first interaction with the criminal justice system happens at school.

I hope that is something that you will help states try to overcome.

It is an anachronism, the idea that we have one system of healthcare for your neck down and then you have to walk across town to find somebody that will treat the rest of your body.

I think the legislation's most important provision is the part that built upon the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.

It represents the first comprehensive overhaul and reauthorization of our Nation's mental health laws in a generation.

Now, let us be clear, there is no inherent connection between mental illness and violence.

I think it continues to make a critical difference.

I hope that a clear-eyed calculation about what Russia will do will inform our policy going forward.

We constantly, over the course of my time in the Senate, have underestimated the lengths that Russia will go in order to protect its interests in and around its periphery.

This is a political initiative, meaning that most energy economists will tell you that this does not make sense as a financial endeavor moving this gas through a northern route pipeline

I would hope that you would encourage the White House to directly engage because the Ukrainians for the last 8 years were used to engagement directly from the White House.

Russia does not want to militarily own Ukraine. It wants to economically and politically break Ukraine, and it wants to use energy as a means of doing that.

The dangers of excessive dependence on a single supplier were highlighted, as Senator Murphy noted, in 2006, 2009, and 2014 when Russia cut off gas supplies to and through the Ukraine.

We are simply fooling ourselves as a Congress and as a country if we think we can protect this nation and our treaty allies with a 40 percent reduction to the Department that works primarily in the area of energy security.

We need to do everything we can to help stabilize the situation.

Their future lies with the West certainly economically.

Our goal as the United States is to stabilize, provide security.

The HELP Committee will meet again, December 13 at 10 a.m., for a hearing on the 'Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act,' and its response to mental health needs.

I will hold myself to the same standard that Senator Alexander held others and thank you all for being here.

You've got another advertisement to put the money behind the legislation we passed.

We've got to give you the funds to implement this act.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I would beg you and I would beg the Department of Labor, use the authority you have to make sure that people suffering from addiction and mental illness are treated the same as people who have cancer diagnosis and orthopedic diagnoses.

These are not small violations, these are giant gaping violations of the parity law.