Chris Murphy

I am fully committed to not using non-commercial airplane or helicopter travel--as a steward of the taxpayer funds.

I do not believe there is any legitimate explanation. I believe that kind of disparity in the treatment of African-American children would be, on its face, a violation of Federal law.

I agree that there is a significant difference, but let me speak in defense of guidance.

A U.S. Senator from the State of Connecticut

Maybe there's not legislation on this, Mr. Chairman, but just potentially the opportunity to use a bipartisan bully pulpit to make clear to the insurance companies that this is in their best interest to ultimately pay for these alternative…

We're going to make your life a lot harder if the legislation that has been pending throughout the year becomes the law

It's very hard to confront this epidemic when we are threatening to pass health care legislation that would remove $800 billion from Medicaid

Experience in the private sector should not be disqualifying.

I just think it is strange.

You think President Trump is taking these actions in the goal of making the Affordable Care Act work better?

Is your testimony here today that this is all in service of an effort to make the ACA better?

You're hearing our frustration about the way in which this tax bill has turned into a healthcare bill in the last 48 hours.

We are concerned that the President of the United States is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national security…

I just wanted to make sure that we understand the range of authority that the President has today with respect to potential military operations in the Korean peninsula.

I would argue that now would be the time to weigh in and make your feelings known on this.

The risk here is that you're now going to set up one system of care for healthy people who can get into those plans, which don't require you to price without respect to medical acuity, and one system for sick people, who will then stay in…

We've got to have a conversation about how you structure risk allocation here to promote insurers to pay for the stuff that actually keeps you off of that pain medication pathway.

That is really curious given how much we focused on evidence-based practices, how intentional we were to make sure that if you are putting interventions to try to help kids out who are underperforming, that it would be evidence-based.

What is Tennessee doing to try to address the requirement in ESSA that states try to crack down on what we call aversive discipline practices?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers. None of this ends unless we do something to stop it.

Every military conflict that we are involved in overseas has a political root at the bottom of it.

Yemen currently is arguably the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world today, an epidemic of both famine and cholera.

I think that our policy in Yemen has been an epic failure, and I understand the Saudis spend a lot of money coming up here and making promises about how they are going to change the conduct of this war.

Who cares what they say?