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I think we have to have a conversation about whether we can continue to fund law enforcement in states where they are refusing to implement these gun laws.
Found on FOX News 5 days ago
The senator is right: I’m not going to engage in a colloquy on the merits of this request or the previous request. This isn’t real. This is a TV show, this is clickbait, this is theater. This isn’t an actual attempt to pass legislation.
Found on FOX News 2 months ago
And now there is a unanimous consent request to pass a bill that’s under negotiation, discussion between serious legislators who actually want to find results, so, no, I’m not going to debate the merits of these [unanimous consent requests], this isn’t real.
Found on FOX News 2 months ago
This legislation would prevent Secret Service from undermining the work of the agency watchdog, and stop them from keeping the American people in the dark about things they deserve to know.
Found on CNN 4 months ago
I've also been part of many failed negotiations in the past, so I'm sober-minded about our chances.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
I've never been part of negotiations as serious as these. There are more Republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws, investing in mental health than at any time since Sandy Hook, i've also been part of many failed negotiations in the past, so I'm sober-minded about our chances.
Found on CNN 5 months ago
We're not going to put a piece of legislation on the table that will ban assault weapons or pass comprehensive background checks, right now, people in this country want us to make progress, they just don't want the status quo to continue for another 30 years.
Found on FOX News 6 months ago
I think the Senate needs to do this ourselves, i've talked to the White House every single day since these negotiations began, but right now the Senate needs to handle these negotiations.
Found on FOX News 6 months ago
I've never been part of negotiations as serious as these. There are more Republicans at the table talking about changing our gun laws, investing in mental health than at any time since Sandy Hook.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I think their process next week is going to be very important and very emotional. But we're gon na have to find our own path forward in the Senate.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I know attention to this crisis is very fleeting, i have a sense of urgency of getting a piece of legislation that we can shop to colleagues. I don't know what we'll have by Monday.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
They know we need our space -- so we are in regular touch with the White House, but they know that this ultimately has to be a deal in the Senate.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I don't know yet whether there's enough support to get to 60 votes on that, there's a lot of outstanding questions that we'll have to answer next week.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
It's all about what can get 60-plus votes in the Senate GOP, and we're working on Senate GOP and Senate GOP will have to do with the spending as well as the provisions.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I've also heard Republicans make clear that as long as we're not talking about doing everything at once, as long as we're talking about more incremental but significant changes, they're open.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I've read carefully everything that Senator McConnell has said in the past 48 hours, and so far, I don't read anything Chris Murphy said to foreclose the deal that is very focused on keeping weapons out of the hands of potentially dangerous people.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
I think next week is critical, my hope is that we'll have a product for both Republicans and House Democrats to look at when we return. And that will give us a sense as to whether we can get this passed. Every day that goes by I'm more optimistic. But I don't think we'll really know until everybody gets back in town.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
Guns flow in this country like water, and that's why we have mass shooting after mass shooting, and, you know, spare me the bullshit about mental illness, we don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You can not explain this through a prism of mental illness because... we're not an outlier on mental illness, we're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their hands on firearms. That's what makes America different.
Found on CNN 6 months ago
It's important for the President to continue to explain that gas prices are going to remain high so long as this conflict continues. And that ultimately other costs, like food costs, are going to be in the crosshairs. We're not used to having to sacrifice for modern warfare.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
We need to call out the separation that exists between how Republicans talk and how they vote, in the end, Ukraine doesn't give a crap about what The Republicans say at press conferences, they care about whether they're getting help or not.
Found on CNN 8 months ago
I think we need to be clear that we are not going to go to war with Russia, that would be the beginning of WWIII, and it would drag all of Europe into a much broader war.
Found on FOX News 9 months ago
I'm sure that the brave American soldiers who would be shooting it down knowing that it is flying towards the students — I'm sure that they had no doubt in doing so.
Found on FOX News 9 months ago
I think we need to be clear that we are not going to go to war with Russia, that would be the beginning of WWIII, and it would drag all of Europe into a much broader war, we do not want to engage directly with Russians.
Found on FOX News 9 months ago
If I were President Zelenskyy, I would be asking for a no-fly zone. The problem is, there is no such thing as a no-fly zone over Ukraine, if the United States put planes in the air, we would immediately be shooting at Russian planes. They would be shooting at us. We would be at war.
Found on FOX News 9 months ago
This is not good policy for the United States Senate to allow Ted Cruz to break us from our transatlantic partners in the middle of a delicate negotiation over the future of US-Russia, and Europe-Russia policy.
Found on CNN 10 months ago
The Fed has done a really good job telegraphing all their moves, making everyone comfortable with what’s going to happen.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago
It definitively points towards investors being more comfortable with the Fed, the Fed has done a really good job telegraphing all their moves, making everyone comfortable with what’s going to happen.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago
The Taliban has lots of reasons to honor their agreement with the United States and keep AlQaeda at bay. And our mission now is to put ourselves in a position where we can monitor and verify that that commitment.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
He still needs to answer some questions and concerns, but I am confident he is going to have 50 votes on the floor. This is a mainstream nominee, someone who knows the ATF backwards and forward. It would be a gift to the gun lobby if somebody with that kind of qualification wasn't supported by the Democratic caucus.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The feeling is it might be a little bit easier for Republicans to support because it's a real defined universe, so we're not there yet.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
My concern is that the pace of activity directed at U.S. forces and the repeated retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxy forces are starting to look like what would qualify as a pattern of hostilities under the War Powers Act, both the Constitution and the War Powers Act require the president to come to Congress for a war declaration under these circumstances.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I get worried when I see groups of senators that don't include members from the Northeast corridor that really care about making sure that we dramatically change transit times.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is complex, even though it doesn't look like a complex law it is because when you're trying to expand background checks you don't have a lot of good data. You don't know anything about the sales you don't know about. So all these sales that are happening online, at gun shows, without background checks it's hard to draw a law and know how far into that dark universe you're going to get.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think there's clearly a point coming where we've got to put a bill on the floor -- I think Senator Schumer's been clear about that, we're gon na work this work period and try to come to an agreement, but if we come back in June and we don't have a bipartisan deal then I think we've got to move forward on universal or commercial sales.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Realistically, it's still very much an uphill effort, in part because Republicans are so spooked right now by Donald Trump and his base and the complete irrationality, almost paranoia, of that base when it comes to guns, the slippery slope becomes a cliff. If Donald Trump and his base take one step, it's like the world ends.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The more time we have to get up and running and meet these crises, the -- the better.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
In many ways, Chuck Schumer is made for this moment, managing an effective one-seat majority in The Senate is really hard and The Senate requires you to know what every single member of your caucus is thinking on an hour-to-hour basis, because one disgruntled member can potentially upset your agenda.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have no issues with Rahm, he has a history of rubbing some folks pretty roughly but I think he brings some good ideas to the table.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I wouldn't expect that the Biden administration is going to put a lot of work into this issue early in 2021, but as the state laws start to come online this summer, it will command more attention.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think Democrats have coalesced around the idea that if you're going to spend time debating the issue of college athletics, you shouldn't be limited to talking only about endorsement rights, my sense is that if the NCAA wants Congress to solve this issue of NIL, they're going to have to come to the table on a lot of other things as well.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A general at DoD was especially worrying under Trump, trump had zero foreign policy experience, a penchant to glorify violence, a total neophyte Secretary of State, and an unstable, war mongering former general as NSA.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The The NRA, a get rich quick scheme for The NRA executives that pushed positions wildly out of step with gun owners, is collapsing, just as Congress readies to vote on a comprehensive background checks proposal with 90 % public support, the NRA's happening.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fastest way to get money into Americans pockets, is to send some of their tax dollars right back from where they came.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Without Donald Trump on the ballot, I don't know( if) Donald Trump on the ballot's going to give one crap about helping turnout Donald Trump on the ballot base in Georgia, donald Trump could be doing some just batshit crazy things on or around January 5 that could mobilize the same constituency that came out for Joe Biden on Tuesday.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think the White House or the [ intelligence ] agencies have any plans to release additional information -- that will only happen if we build that pressure, and that's why I have started to talk more about what I know, and how it's inconsistent with what the intel agencies have told us to try to create that pressure campaign.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was disturbing to see Mark Meadows doing that briefing, having been in close contact with the President, and not wearing a mask. Mark Meadows says Mark Meadows had tested negative, but often, those positive results don't show up for several days, so it just doesn't appear to me that the White House has gotten the message.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was glad that Mark Meadows came out and made that clear this morning, our allies and our adversaries need to know that and understand, because we still have many of those on the latter list that are probing at our vulnerabilities.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am convinced that the Russians are prepared to do anything and everything in order to get this president reelected, and knowing that Chris Murphy is going to be sidelined from at least normal campaigning over the next two weeks, it may mean that that's massive multi-layered octopus-like Russian interference operation is going to ramp up, and I think we all need to be cognizant of that and we all need to be taking steps to try to make the American people understand what is real information from that being proffered by countries like Russia.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I just think that there is a consensus amongst my colleagues here to not let those layoffs happen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
They often play games. They often try to use threats of layoffs in order to get more money out of the Architect of the Capitol. So I think it might be time to find a vendor that's not going to use the threats of layoffs as a cajole to try to get more money.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This vendor we use in the Senate has been a problem to deal with, they often play games. They often try to use threats of layoffs in order to get more money out of the Architect of the Capitol. So I think it might be time to find a vendor that's not going to use the threats of layoffs as a cajole to try to get more money.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We don't have the luxury of waiting and rebuilding our global public health infrastructure after this crisis is past, the next pandemic may be on top of us this winter.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
He has essentially ceded the Middle East to Russian interests. He has accomplished more in the undermining of NATO than Russia has in the last 20 years, and he continues to effectively deny that they have an ongoing political operation here in the United States that, by and large, is intended to support President Donald Trump and President Donald Trump allies.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He has essentially ceded the Middle East to Russian interests. He has accomplished more in the undermining of NATO than Russia has in the last 20 years, and he continues to effectively deny that they have an ongoing political operation here in the United States.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We need to put Republicans on record, we may not have another chance to offer amendments to get witnesses and documents before the Senate.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is no longer justified based on security threats to have this minimal presence because we had even greater security threats confronting our diplomatic personnel for long portions of our time in Iraq, we need to find a way to get our folks back into Baghdad before we lose everything that we have gained in that country.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Clearly the White House is consumed by this growing crisis, and so I'm not surprised I haven't heard from the White House on background checks for a few weeks.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This is an extraordinary moment. We're seeing our country turn into a banana republic. Republicans better be careful what they wish for because a Democratic president could use the same tools President Donald Trump is to turn the White House into one big extension of his reelection campaign, if that's the direction they take, attacking the whistleblower, trying to coverup this corruption, it's a really, really said day for the country.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This revolving door of American leadership is devastating to our nation's security as our allies now turn to more stable nations -- like China and Russia -- as our foreign policy infrastructure falls apart, john Bolton was the wrong choice and the silver lining to this instability is that there will be fewer people whispering war chants in the president's ear. But no one of any quality is going to take a job in the nation's national security cabinet so long as everyone's head is permanently hovering slightly above the chopping block.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
With the collapse of recent arms control agreements and significant domestic opposition to Vladimir Putin's authoritarian rule, this is potentially a perilous moment for our two nations' fragile relationship, and it's a shame that Russia isn't interested in dialogue.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The president's language is always vague and hard to follow on almost every issue he talks about and it has been especially difficult to parse when he's talking about the issue of changing America's gun laws, he's talking to the gun lobby much more frequently than he's talking to me.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Several days ago some of the president's comments seemed to suggest that he was once again backing away from his commitment to work on background checks legislation, i have been in contact with the White House this week since the president's comments - as late as last night - and I believe that the White House is still committed to trying to work on a comprehensive anti-gun violence proposal that would include strengthening background checks.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I am skeptical we can reach consensus but I'm willing to stay at the table over next few weeks. Maybe I'm a fool for trying but stakes are too high.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Its time for Republicans and President Trump to decide whose side theyre on, are they going to stand with the 90 percentof Americans who want universal background checks, or are they going to once again kowtow to the desires of the gun lobby?
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Instead of holding Saudi Arabia accountable, this administration instead continues to provide them a blank check, i'll be pursuing legislation in September that holds Saudi Arabia accountable and allows Congress to vote on the totality of our security assistance to Saudi Arabia.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
President Trump is only using this loophole because he knows Congress would disapprove ... There is no new 'emergency' reason to sell bombs to the Saudis to drop in Yemen, and doing so only perpetuates the humanitarian crisis there.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
President Donald Trump in 2017's been a prosecutor in Connecticut forever, president Donald Trump in 2017's a law-and-order guy, tough-nosed, well-respected. If I were Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, I wouldn't have taken this job, but President Donald Trump in 2017's got a reputation of being apolitical and serious.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are made weaker in the eyes of the world when we willingly participate in war crimes, when we allow our partners to engage in the slaughter of innocents.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The most important thing is to stop the slaughter of civilians in Yemen, i'm upset about Jamal Khashoggi but I'm much more upset about that Congress has allowed thousands of kids to die inside Yemen. We need to end that war and if the resolution doesn't end Chris Murphy participation in the war in Yemen then there are not 50 votes for the final product.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This clearly was n’t handled the way it should have been, i talked to Congresswoman Esty, and I ’m glad Congresswoman Esty acknowledges this. Nobody working in a congressional office or any other setting should feel afraid to come to work. Protecting victims of workplace harassment needs to come first, and the rules of Congress need to change to ensure that happens.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The entire missile stays together, and the entire missile is what delivers the lethality or the impact to the incoming round.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We’re making body-to-body contact, instead of getting close to it and making a big explosion, what we do is actually, the nose of our missile hits the part of the incoming round that we want to hit.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I really do worry that there is a quiet, unintentional message of endorsement that's sent when we do nothing or when all we do is talk, i think when there is not a collective condemnation with policy change from what is supposedly the world's greatest deliberative body that there are very quiet cues that are picked up by people who are contemplating the unthinkable in their mind.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The increasing number of women coming forward suggests a pattern of repeated harassment and unacceptable behavior that is impossible to ignore.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I’ve had enough, i’m going to stand here and hold the floor while we give our colleagues time to try to find a path forward.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think we have an interest in combating this group regardless of their connection to ISIL.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I'd be pissed if I were a consumer. A lot of people may have bought it for the eco-friendly elements.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We're getting emails like, 'Hey, I'm going to hold off on diesel for right now.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We can't take the hit for it, that would put us out of business.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If we want credibility in the region, we’ve got to be seen as a partner in trying to solve this humanitarian crisis.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It doesn’t stand to reason that Germany is going to take 800,000 and the U.S. has only taken 1,500.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I don't think you can say that the Syrian war wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the invasion of Iraq, but we certainly contributed to the ongoing mess in that region and inside Syria because of our occupation, our invasion, which after a set of circumstances, led to the development of ISIS. … I think we have a responsibility.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It gives me hope that if I stick with this, families will stick with this alongside me.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
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