Chris Murphy

I would love to be able to take the politics out of this issue, but we are at a hearing entitled, 'Obamacare Emergency.'

At its core, the SBA's mission is simple: to help Americans start, build, and grow businesses.

I have confidence that she is going to give good, sound counsel to President Trump when it comes to policy affecting small businesses.

Politics cannot work if political grudges never die, and political adversaries have to find a way to work together after the fight is over.

As the American public takes a look at that sequence of events, tell me how it can possibly be OK that you were championing positions on health care issues that have the effect of increasing your own personal wealth.

It seems as if you and the President-elect want to do everything the Affordable Care Act does but just do it in a totally different way.

I think there's a great concern on behalf of the American people that this whole administration is starting to look like a bit of a get-rich-quick scheme.

Increase the number of people who have insurance.

I hope you can understand our frustration around trying to divine the nature of this replacement plan.

I hear what you are saying, but can you understand why right now the world perceives the Trump administration's foreign policy to be the exact opposite of 'clear about where we stand and strong in our values?'

The reason that we invest in the U.N. is not because we expect to win every fight.

You can't say definitively today that guns shouldn't be in schools?

The Every Student Succeeds Act maintains the full enforcement powers of the Department of Education.

Our Nation is stronger and a better place for all when we are educated, work and live together with people from different backgrounds, races and socioeconomic levels.

I do believe that segregation in our schools is a problem and I do not support policies that would increase segregation.

Can you assure this committee that you're going to implement those accountability regulations to make sure that all schools are performing?

If we can't agree that folks shouldn't get rich off of schools, then maybe we can agree that they shouldn't be getting rich off of terrible schools.

This rush job, this inability to allow the public to see this debate, the imperative to get this hearing in before we have all the information.

I do not know that there is anybody on this committee that would deny that there are extrajudicial killings happening in Philippines.

Could you take that question for the record and get a response to the committee?

Have you been briefed yet on these allegations and on this report?

I think we all pray that it is not true, and I certainly understand you are not in a position to testify to the contents of that report.

How do you deter cyber attacks against the United States if you send a message that you can get away with it with no sanctions?

The U.S. is under attack today. We are under attack by Russia, by North Korea, by China through these cyber attacks.

I think in Ukraine, we need to come to the realization that Putin does not want to militarily own Ukraine.