Christopher S. Murphy

Most immediately, any default on America's debts and obligations would be an irreparable self-inflicted wound.

Nothing would better serve the interests of our adversaries. Let us work together on a bipartisan basis to keep America strong at home and around the world.

I find it hard to believe your insistence that notwithstanding this extraordinary set of decisions, reinstating workers, forcing stores to be reopened, that you are in fact consistently abiding by the law as your testimony is before this…

But the judge is making a finding that you have engaged in conduct that is not allowed by the underlying law, i.e., illegal behavior.

It is rooted in free market principles, right?

It is kind of disappointing and sad and wild to me at how sort of partisan this debate has become.

Collective bargaining is a fundamentally conservative idea.

If this results in the curbing of some of Iran's malicious activities, I actually do not think that is a bad thing.

It does not in any way substitute for our determination to pursue the deepening as well as the expansion of the Abraham Accords.

I think often the rationale for our continued economic, and security assistance... is often connected to our need to have a foothold inside these countries to compete with China.

The way that we compete with China successfully, is to not be China.

I have been a critic of continuing the level of aid to Saied's Government.

Here, here. And I hope that those of us who have worked in a bipartisan way to support the GEC, will continue to do that.

I just wanted to congratulate you and your team on the work that you have done on those two important achievements.

The eyes of the world and the nation are rightly focused on Ukraine, on our broad set of competition, challenges with China; the Middle East always gets an outsized share of attention from this country and this Congress.

I appreciate the fact that we have continued to scale up the size of the Global Engagement Center.

It strikes me that this issue of critical mineral security is not a partisan one.

To rob this Administration of the ability to help secure critical minerals overseas seems like an effort to cut off our nose to spite our face.

Do we have currently a suite of policies that allow us to make a different offer that is better than the Chinese offer?

Well, and why I think it is so important that you have constructed a process that brings all of these countries together is they also have some pretty powerful rivers, right.

I am really grateful for the Chairman, and the Ranking Member's focus on the suicide epidemic, and for all the work that you have put into it.

I congratulate this Congress because in the last budget for the first time we put $50 million specifically towards the work of interrupting the gun trade.

It is also true that the ports in Mexico are a big problem as well and I just do not think it is realistic that we are going to defeat the Mexican drug cartels in the next 5 years.

Let us be honest, at best, Mexico is not taking this crisis seriously enough and, at worst, the Mexican Government or at least significant parts of it are either looking the other way or complicit with the cartels.

I applaud the passage last year of the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act, although I was disappointed that ultimately the legislation did not include the Senate-passed Strategic Competition Act.