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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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Jun 26, 2026

There is no reason that somebody should go to work full time in this country and not be able to pay their bills.

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Jun 26, 2026

Kids have outsourced critical thinking. Have outsourced friendship. Have even outsourced moral advice to AI.

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Jun 26, 2026

It seems designed to repel Democratic votes," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said. "They’re clearly not trying to pass this.

foxnews.com
Jun 25, 2026

The cost of housing is the number one issue I hear about from people in Connecticut. Congress has sat back as rents skyrocketed, and home ownership got further and further out of reach. This bill is a necessary first step to addressing…

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Jun 25, 2026

The voters are clearly telling us they want us to be bolder — bolder in the policies we’re proposing and bolder in the tactics we use to fight authoritarians.

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Jun 24, 2026

There is only one person to blame: Donald Trump. And there is only one party to blame: the Republican Party.

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Jun 24, 2026

You go from being on the brink of financial crisis, into financial crisis.

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Jun 24, 2026

The cost of this war is being borne by American consumers, by American small businesses, by American farmers.

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Jun 23, 2026

No kid should miss out on the fun and the bonding that comes with summer camp just because there aren’t enough spots or their family can’t afford it. The Summer for All Act provides federal funding for summer programming so that parents…

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Jun 22, 2026

No it's not…this budget has a 35% proposed reduction for the Office of Civil Rights.

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Jun 22, 2026

I knew it was going to be a humiliating agreement. I didn't know it was going to be this humiliating. I want the war to end. I'm willing to stomach a bad deal, but this agreement exposes what a colossal mistake it was.

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Jun 19, 2026

Instead of ending the Iran war, instead of trying to do something about these spiraling prices and costs that are being borne by families and the federal government, the president has spent the last few weeks reaching his hand into the…

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Jun 19, 2026

Of course, we are seeing billions of dollars having been spent by businesses, by farms, by consumers, because gas prices are out of control. This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small…

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Jun 19, 2026

The president has spent the last few weeks reaching his hand into the Treasury, stealing from the American people $1.7 billion to be put into a slush fund that he controls to reward his political supporters.

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Jun 19, 2026

The president is not spending his time right now trying to end this war. Reports are that the president has become bored of the Iran war, and that's why we're in a stalemate.

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Jun 19, 2026

This week, they will probably hit $5 a gallon in Connecticut. That will put a lot of my small businesses out of business, if gas prices remain at $5 through this summer.

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Jun 19, 2026

If we had taken this money that we've spent in just two and a half months of war and applied it to medical research, we would double this year's budget for medical research.

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Jun 19, 2026

In hearings last week, the administration suggested that the cost of the war is about $29 billion. To most military experts, that just didn't pass the straight face test, the smell test, and in fact, one group of experts actually did an…

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Jun 19, 2026

What a disaster that is. And insult to injury, the text says that Iran promises to open the Strait for… 10 years? Nope. Five years? A year? No. Iran says, we will open the Strait of Hormuz for two months toll-free, and then after that…

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Jun 19, 2026

The Iranians don't have to worry about oil sanctions – they're gone. The Iranians don't have to worry about getting back their frozen funds or transferring them. They don't have to worry about an American military response, because they've…

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Jun 19, 2026

I just want to make sure we really think through what the underlying motivations are of the people who are making the software before we just assume that their motivations are the benefit of our kids.

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Jun 19, 2026

What do you think about an idea to make sure that AI technology that is being handed to a teacher go through some expert approval process first to make sure that its actual function is to supplement the teacher's instruction, rather than…

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Jun 19, 2026

We require a teacher to go through licensing before they are in a classroom. We require most complicated technologies to go through an approval process before they are handed out to the American public.

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Jun 19, 2026

The AI companies have a veneer of social benefit, but an underlying motivation of addiction and profit expansion.

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Jun 19, 2026

I don't think there's any way to overhype the damage that AI has already done to our kids' ability to succeed. I'm the parent of an incoming 12th grader and incoming 9th grader, and I've seen already how, at scale, kids have outsourced…

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