Chris Murphy

I do agree with the Senator. We are both members of New England States. We are both members of States where people enjoy hunting. I run into very few hunters who believe they need an AR-15-style weapon in order to enjoy their pastime.

I say through the Chair to the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee that of course it would make a difference. What the Manchin-Toomey bill has always contemplated is that sales that were advertised would be covered by background…

Through the Chair, I am. I yield to the Senator for another question.

I say to Senator Blumenthal, I don't think there is any more I can offer in answer. You are correct that it is both ironic and outrageous. I yield to the Senator from Maryland for a question without losing my right to the floor.

I know the Senator from Maryland is on the floor, but I yield to the Senator from Connecticut for a question.

I thank the gentleman for joining us on the floor today. I think that is really what this is about--not being able in our heart of hearts to go back to our States, especially those that have been touched by these crimes, and tell them that…

I think people in my State are shocked that this isn't already law. I think at some level people don't understand why this hasn't been baked into the background system as it is. As you know, this is just simply not a controversial issue…

And it was not. As we stated, this system worked for a very long time until all of these gun sales migrated out of the system. But we have plenty of examples in which we have passed sensible commonsense gun laws that didn't lead to all of…

I did. We hear it constantly, which is this belief that there is a secret agenda, that this is really about a slippery slope to gun confiscation. As the Senator stated very eloquently in his remarks, there is a Second Amendment, and there…

First of all, let me say that it doesn't surprise me because we know the level of carnage that entered that emergency room. But I think it should pain everyone to look at that pair of shoes, look at the blood splattered on them, think of…

Well, it is not surprising to me, would be my answer. I think, as the Senator knows, the marketing techniques of the companies that sell these guns are very disturbing. They often are marketing these guns in a way that would suggest that…

Through the Chair, I thank my colleague for the question. From the layman's perspective, they don't seem like they are different weapons. They are both incredibly powerful weapons. They are both derivatives of weapons that were intended to…

It doesn't take courage to stand her on the floor of the United States Senate for two hours or six hours or 14 hours, doesn't take courage to stand up to the gun lobby when 90 percent of your constituents want change to happen. It takes…

I sit before you today to urge Congress to allocate sufficient additional Federal funding to States.

I cannot tell you how happy we are, and you heard from others this morning.

Senate Resolution 479 introduced by Senators Markey, Durbin, and Murphy, which call for targeted sanctions on President Kabila's inner circle

There have been many members of the Senate who have been disappointed at the level of military assistance we have provided.

But, you are absolutely right that it is essential for us to continue to be strong supporters of Georgia's aspiration.

It is in our interests to make it clear to the Russians that... it does not prevent those countries from being eligible to join transatlantic institutions.

I think they are ready, and it is an important signal that NATO still has an open-door policy for those that are ready.

Why are we not more aggressively engaging in tools of diplomacy that can help us, hopefully, have Russia understand that there are consequences?

I worry that the message that Putin must be taking from our responses is that his limit-testing aggression and opportunism is the right approach.

I call on the administration to hold accountable more human rights abusers in the country.

I believe that pulling out of Open Skies would send the wrong message to our friends.

It is a wonderful counter-narrative to this mythology that exists about American global weakness.