Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Huge news - Tester has decided to run for re-election. Nobody fights harder for working people. Nobody understands rural America better. And this seat will be McConnell’s top target next year. Let’s raise some $$ for John today! https://t.co/Mg77kcf7vx — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

This is huge news. Nobody works harder for working people. Nobody understands rural America better. And this seat will be McConnell’s top target next year. Let’s raise some $$$ for John today! — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

the folksy down home tradition of holding human beings in bondage — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

This is a new one. Boarded my @AmericanAir flight and the maintenance guy took the maintenance book and disappeared. Been sitting on a hot plane for over an hour while pilots try to find him. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @AccountableGOP: Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests that if Democrats move to a red state, they shouldn't be allowed to vote for five years… — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Republicans could have passed a tax cut for working people in Ohio and other areas ravaged by outsourcing. They didn’t. They passed a tax cut where 80% of the benefit went to corporations and the richest 1%. Norfolk Southern made out like gangbusters. https://t.co/mzYhv6JFY3 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Lots I disagree with here, but for those not convinced of the unwinding of the neoliberal order, please read. "In Three Forks, every vehicle is a pickup truck and in every truck bed a hostile dog and on every bumper a hostile statement." https://t.co/FMWL9ohrQn — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Hey look at this… “After rail industry donors delivered more than $6 million to GOP campaigns, the Trump administration — backed by rail lobbyists and Senate Republicans — rescinded part of the rule aimed at making better braking systems widespread.” https://t.co/1AKH28hvh6 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Here’s a story from 2015 about how Senate GOP tried to sneak into a transportation funding bill a railroad industry backed provision to gut safety rules. Democrats caught them and they backed down. (FYI they got Trump to gut the rules a few years later) https://t.co/AckDyixHYE — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Good morning. The same Republicans who are up in arms about East Palestine are the same ones who supported Trump’s campaign to gut Obama’s railroad safety regulations. It’s all fake indignation. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

She’s maybe the most famous, most influential Republican in America. And she’s calling for secession. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Lots of pundit chatter this weekend about something parents of teens already knew - our young people are struggling and they need help. I wrote about the loneliness epidemic and the need to view it as a political issue. https://t.co/rp5nJxxm5m — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

7/ Further, seeing this monster up close, listening to Kevin describe it, underscores why PREVENTION is truly the best policy. Why don’t we spend more money here, as a way to save money (and heartbreak) later. Spend money to save money (and lives). — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

6/ I say this bc 5 day detox programs and short term outpatient just aren’t working. And it’s no surprise. 5 days is nothing up against this monster. But 4 week programs do often work. More intensive programs show results. It’s expensive in the short run, but it pays off. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

5/ Policymakers need to spend more time with people living with addition. You need to WITNESS how addiction changes a person, how it controls every decision, how it could even cause a person to choose death over sobriety. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

4/ He knows this, and it scares him to death. I could see how frightened he was, coming to terms with the fact that if he keeps using, he will die. My sense was that he thinks he will start using again. He thinks his addiction - which controls his brain - will choose death. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

3/ He has tried to stop. He has tried inpatient treatment. He has tried outpatient. He has tried sober houses. Nothing has worked. But now his heart has stopped working, and if he doesn’t stop using now, even with the surgery, he will likely die. He knows this. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

2/ Kevin wanted me to know he had no family history of addiction and he didn’t use habitually until he was 29. His addiction caught him by surprise. He says “I never ever thought I’d end up like this.” — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

I was at Hartford Hospital today and spent some time with a young man named Kevin. He has been using heroin and fentanyl for 6 years and he just had open heart surgery for myocarditis, a condition caused by his drug use. 1/ My interaction w him rattled me and I want to share it. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

I met with a group of Turkish and Syrian Americans today in Hartford to talk about what America must do to support earthquake relief. https://t.co/2U1lxckFI0 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

I joined with Connecticut anti-gun violence advocates today in Hartford to celebrate the reintroduction of my universal background checks legislation. https://t.co/LNEP5SPQUC — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

This is how many coaches think. They think it’s awful that kids are starting to make money because it threatens their paydays. If there was revenue sharing in college basketball, Boeheim might have to live with $1 million a year instead of $2.8 million. The horror. — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

The Democratic message should be simple: Every day, we are fighting to raise wages and lower costs for regular people, as opposed to Republicans, who fight for millionaires and corporations. We want to grow the economy from the middle out, not the top down. https://t.co/dU7re1Rh2T — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Something went very wrong with the contract award for the new Army assault helicopter. This article says: "On best value and integrating with allies, the Defiant is a clear winner for the future aviation platform. So why did Army pick a tiltrotor? " https://t.co/hkfbEgtgK0 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @tbonier: Wow. I'm just now getting a first look at the 2022 PA vote history (the record of who voted). In 2014 voters under 30 accounte… — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

RT @minakimes: When it comes to the NFL’s diversity problem, Eric Bieniemy is just the tip of the iceberg. https://t.co/cdAA6dS0Ee — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

For LGBT teens, I don't think it's much of a mystery. Social media feeds insecurities about body and identity, and people on the right make gay kids out to be dangerous or abnormal. https://t.co/Et8doc2L44 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

Here it is: "When researchers paid people to deactivate their Facebook accounts, they found that online activity went down, offline activity went up, both polarization and news knowledge declined, and subjective well-being increased." https://t.co/3RR3rtOW0N — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

For LGTB teens, I don't think it's much of a mystery. Social media feeds their insecurities about body and identity, and adults on the right constantly make gay kids out to be dangerous or abnormal. https://t.co/Et8doc2L44 — PolitiTweet.org

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT

A revised Northern Ireland Protocol will give NI a unique trade advantage - they remain a part of the UK market, but have unique access to the EU market. Win-win for the people of Northern Ireland. — PolitiTweet.org