Christopher S. Murphy

It would have provided $20 billion in extra emergency funding to buy 50,000 detention beds, to hire 4,300 new asylum officers, 100 new immigration judges, 1,500 border patrol agents, 1,000 new deportation officers.

A couple of years ago, the Army's number one modernization priority was the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Program.

20 service members lost in the last 2 years. 60 service members lost overall to the Osprey.

I think you are right that there is a strategic and a moral reason to care about the number of civilian casualties in Gaza.

If Israel's strategy is making it more likely, not less likely, that future terrorist attacks will occur, then it is not an effective strategy.

You have to protect the people, the civilians in the battle space, otherwise you create more terrorist going forward.

This also would be a way to not be so heavily reliant on sanctions policy, if you had people on the ground who were sort of doing the slow, hard work with civil society.

This, frankly, would not cost a ton of money to decide that we are going to develop a dedicated core of anti-corruption officers.

You do not have to conduct an investigation to figure out that the very structure of many of these countries involve taking resources that should be available for the benefit of the entire nation and using them in a way to benefit only a…

The very nature of authoritarian, kleptocratic regimes are inherently corrupt.

If Government is going to invest in business the trillions of dollars we invest in business, that our taxpayer dollars invest in business, that should--those benefits should be going to working class people, not just strictly business.

A lot of that money is going to trust funds. A lot of that money is going into inherited wealth.

I think the fundamental question here that we are asking is where has all this wealth gone that has been gathered in this economy from these massive increases in productivity if it hasn't been going to workers.

For the first time last year, the majority of wealth for new billionaires... came not from their work, but through inheritance.

President Trump's policy toward Iran was a disaster. They got closer to a nuclear weapon.

I thought your opening remarks sounded a lot more like a campaign speech for Donald Trump's reelection than a sober analysis of the situation on the ground in the region.

We need to place an imperative and a priority on bringing to close this round of hostilities.

I do agree that it is a very troubling and creative interpretation of Article II authority to extend protection to partners.

I agree with Senator Kaine that that is probably not a theory in good standing.

The extent of the military infrastructure inside Yemen... is extensive, and they have shown... the ability to very quickly rebuild their capacity.

I support the actions that the Administration has taken because I believe that the United States is the guarantor of the freedom of navigation of international waters.

This is the kind of thing that can lead us to slip or slide into a war, and that is why Congress needs to be engaged and have a debate about whether this is a mission that is in the national interest or not.

I consider myself in the camp of Senators who believe the U.S. involvement in another war in the Middle East would reflect that we learned virtually nothing over the last 25 years.

There may be a strategic wisdom in doing it but I think the activities are far beyond what a President's unilateral power would be.

To claim that this is covered by Article II self-defense... is not self-defense under Article II of the Constitution.