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.

Chris Murphy

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.

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.

The Fed has done a really good job telegraphing all their moves, making everyone comfortable with what’s going to happen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The more time we have to get up and running and meet these crises, the -- the better.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fastest way to get money into Americans pockets, is to send some of their tax dollars right back from where they came.