Chris Murphy

I served on the committee in the U.S. House that wrote the Affordable Care Act. I defended it back home in endless town halls. I got elected to the Senate, and when no one wanted to stand up for the ACA in its early days, I took up the cause, going to the Senate floor nearly every week to extol its virtues. ”

In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could. ”

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service. ”

Most elected officials don't want you to know about the world of political fundraising because they fear that it paints an unflattering portrait of public life. ”

Rarely do political contributions lead to direct quid pro quo transactions - donations for votes - and those that cross this line normally get caught. ”

With every new class of representatives that comes to Congress, there is a greater recognition of the perils of private financing of campaigns. I believe that by pulling back the curtain on the daily pressures faced by members of Congress, we can show the public how critical this reform is to the salvation of our democracy. ”

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service. ”

The political alliance between the House of Saud and the conservative Wahhabi clerics is as old as the nation, and the alliance has resulted in billions funneled to and through the Wahhabi movement. ”

In 2013 and 2014, I traveled to Ukraine three times with Senator John McCain. ”

I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right. ”