Floor Statements
  • Congressman Murphy Speaks on Need to Eliminate Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Medicare
    Jun 15, 2010  - Today, we’re seeing the implementation of one of the things in the health care reform bill – payments of $250 to help our seniors with the donut hole coverage. One of the things that is also going on that most Americans don’t know about is fundamental reforms with respect to w... More
  • Congressman Murphy Speaks on Need to Close the Medicare Part D "Donut Hole"
    Jun 10, 2010  - Mr. Speaker, today we see the first benefits from the new Healthcare Reform Law that was passed earlier of this Congress and signed into law by the president.  Eighty thousand seniors across America will be receiving checks that are being sent out starting today for tw... More
  • Congressman Murphy Speaks on His Bill to Increase Openness and Transparency
    Jun 9, 2010  - Thank you Mr. Brady for yielding and thank you Madam Speaker for recognizing me.  I rise today in support of my resolution, House Resolution 1178, requiring the clerk of the house to make available a congressional budget office cost estimates for each bill considered b... More
  • Congressman Murphy Floor Speech on Wall Street Reform
    May 25, 2010  - Today, Congressman Scott Murphy (NY-20) delivered the following remarks on the House floor regarding Wall Street reform: “I came to this Congress a year ago as a small businessman to solve problems, and one of the critical problems facing the United States right now is how... More
  • Congressman Murphy Speaks on Need for Strong Wall Street Reform
    Apr 22, 2010  - Over the last ten years, Washington failed to regulate our financial market places. And some people on Wall Street took advantage of that to take ridiculous and dangerous risks with dollars they couldn’t back up. This must never be allowed to happen again. All across ... More
  • Congress Murphy Speaks on Health Care Reform Legislation
    Mar 24, 2010  - I rise today as someone who has been building and starting small businesses for my entire adult life. Small businesses in my district have been asking me for a long time, “What will this health insurance reform do for them?” I think it’s very important that we make it cle... More
  • Reforming our Financial System to Protect American Taxpayers
    Dec 9, 2009  - Thank you Mr. Chairman Peterson and also thank you to Ranking Member Lucas. The work we did on the Ag committee I think is the kind of common sense solution that Americans are looking for.  We worked together to come up with regulatory reform in the Ag committee with respect to the deriva... More
  • Responsible Investments
    Oct 22, 2009  - I rise today to offer a simple amendment that would require the Solar Technology Roadmap Committee to submit an annual report to the Secretary of Energy and to this Congress on its activities over the prior 12-month period. For far too long our nation has operated without a comprehensive energy str... More
  • Representative Murphy Introduces His First Amendment on the House Floor
    May 20, 2009  - Like so many other Members here today, I rise to speak in favor of this bill and in particular an amendment that I think will make it stronger. For many years, I have been a small business owner, a founder of small businesses, and for the last 8 years, I have been investing in small businesses all o... More

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