language that is that you don t find very much of in past usage in the united states senate, but it made be wonder throughout the speech what is chris murphy thinking? to be calling it this garbage fire and to listen to that speech last night, was it what you expected it to be? well, listen, i guess i had very low expectations for the speech last night. it was maybe milder than i would have thought. he didn t, frankly, move us, you know, backwards in terms of the ongoing debates we re having about trying to keep the government open and operating, but, lawrence, i think the reason that i get upset, the reason why i use strong language when it comes to both national security and gun violence is that, you know, our number one responsibility as a government is to is to keep people safe from harm. so i get upset when six years after sandy hook we haven t done a thing to meaningfully reduce the trajectory of gun violence, but i also get upset when this