WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday took to the Senate floor to lay out how President Trump's announced deal to end the war with Iran has functionally eliminated America's leverage in nuclear negotiations, emboldened the hardliners in the regime and weakened the United States on the world stage.
Murphy emphasized the war must come to an end - but dispelled any illusions that the Trump administration made a good deal: "As gas prices eclipse $6 a gallon in many places, as Americans are killed, as new wars break out in the region, as farms go bankrupt with the ballooning diesel prices, every single da...