Christopher S. Murphy

I think it is profoundly in Saudi Arabia's interests to fulfill the commitments that they would make in the context of these agreements.

Thank you for your continued willingness to be in an open dialogue with the Senate.

I mean, you cannot say on the record that if Saudi Arabia has the ability to domestically enrich that would impact the desire of other countries in the region to be able to domestically enrich?

Is there not clearly a ripple effect in the region if we do not require the application of the gold standard in an agreement with Saudi Arabia?

It would be foolhardy in a nuclear age to abandon that prospect.

I am a believer that we should be in the business of helping give our students more access to diverse schools.

That is really something to celebrate.

Since we passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act we have seen a stunning drop in gun crime in this country.

One of the ways that we convince young men and women to come join the Coast Guard is to make sure that they have adequate living conditions.

Thank you, Senator Murkowski, for your commitment and vigilance on this issue.

The fentanyl trade between the United States and Mexico is a circle.

This piece of bipartisan legislation would have been the most transformative change to our broken immigration system.

This administration's budget request in recent years are designed to merely manage the border crisis it created.

A budget that makes only minimal new investment to combat fentanyl will fail to make the progress we need.

The truth is that we have a President who could take executive action, and if he wanted to he would.

This includes the ongoing fentanyl crisis; fentanyl is responsible for more than 200 deaths every single day.

The border is a very important issue for Donald Trump.

What makes me most angry about this impeachment is its attempt to personally impugn Secretary Mayorkas.

These articles are laughable on their face.

Let us be clear. Despite Congress' inability to respond to this crisis, the Biden Administration and Secretary Mayorkas have removed, returned, or expelled more migrants in 3 years than the Trump Administration did in 4 years.

Another impeachment article rages about the Immigration Court backlog, a backlog that has existed in Republican and Democratic administrations.

It would have reduced, maybe most importantly, the time to process an asylum application from 10 years, in some cases, to just weeks or at worst months.

It would have made a massive down payment on fixing our broken border and immigration authorities.

The Bipartisan Border Bill, negotiated by myself, Senator Lankford, Senator Sinema, with help from Senator McConnell and Senator Graham.

This budget, even with this proposed increase, is not enough to secure our border and manage the unusually high levels of immigration to the United States.