As Connecticut’s battle against coronavirus remains steady and the state’s statistics among the best in the country, Sen. Chris Murphy visited the Community Health Center of New Britain to encourage citizens to get tested for the virus as well as thanking frontline workers for their contributions. New Britain was one of the cities in... Read More

Lydia Martinez is concerned. With only a month to go before the 2020 U.S. Census count ends, the city is barely at 51 percent of its families completing the form. That’s at least seven points lower than 10 years ago. So Martinez, a former city councilwoman who chairs the City Council’s Complete Count Task Force, is working with State... Read More

Connecticut Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal visited the Yale medical campus Tuesday morning and met with Yale scientists to discuss SalivaDirect, the new saliva-based testing protocol developed at Yale and validated with a study funded by the NBA. Among these Yale professionals were Dean of the Yale School of Medicine Nancy Brown and Dean... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., spearheaded a rally Monday at the Silver Street post office to show support for union workers and call for more funding from the Trump Administration to help the agency deal with effects of the pandemic. Connecticut’s junior senator was joined by Mayor Ben Florsheim, state Sen. Matt Lesser and state Rep.... Read More

A group of Democrats is pushing to include provisions in a coronavirus relief package that would force President Trump to hit the gas on the Defense Production Act (DPA) and ramp up production of key medical supplies. The measure from Sens. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) and backed by Senate... Read More

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a bill that would ban the sale of large armed drones to all nations other than close U.S. allies. The legislation was crafted in response to the Trump administration’s move last month to circumvent a 33-year-old arms treaty and sell more large armed... Read More

A bill that Democratic and Republican senators introduced on Thursday would ban the sale of advanced armed drones to any nation that is not a close ally of the United States, according to lawmakers and congressional aides. The proposed legislation is aimed at halting an effort by the Trump administration to bypass an arms control... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has reintroduced legislation designed to prioritize the federal government’s purchase of American-made goods. According to a statement issued by the Connecticut Democrat’s office, the 21st Century Buy American Act would achieve its goals through a three-pronged approach: closing loopholes that enable federal... Read More

A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday would help more mayors and governors delve into international diplomacy and counter what China already is doing in the United States and elsewhere. The City and State Diplomacy Act, a companion bill to one brought before the House last year, seeks to create an Office of Subnational Diplomacy in... Read More

As college football leaders work to rescue a football season worth billions in revenue from the threat of COVID-19, the players have become emboldened. They are calling out coaches and lawmakers, rallying for social cause s and asking for answers about how they are expected to safely play through a pandemic. The... Read More

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to provide military assistance and reform support to Ukraine over the next five years, underscoring the widespread congressional backing for the nation despite repeated disappointments as it battles Russia-backed forces. The Ukraine Security Partnership Act submitted on... Read More

A push at the federal level would remove police from schools, and a senator from Connecticut joined the charge. Sen. Chris Murphy, along with three other lawmakers, introduced a bill that would pave the way to remove school resource officers and replace them with a counseling system. "Tens of thousands of kids are arrested at school every single... Read More

Squads of heavily armed men, often in uniforms without identifying insignia, attack suspected enemies of the state, throw them into unmarked cars, and carry them away. This is the scenario that has unfolded in Portland, Ore., over recent days. Although it is new in the United States, in other parts of our hemisphere it is a familiar tactic. I saw... Read More

The sheer scale of President Trump’s corruption and contempt for oversight can be dispiriting and daunting. But it’s also forcing congressional Democrats to find new ways to chip away at Trump’s anti-accountabilty fortress. One such new effort concerns a topic that is rarely discussed — Trump’s abuse of the... Read More

HARTFORD — With the U.S. Senate returning next week after a summer break, Connecticut’s two senators said Thursday they will be fighting to extend the $600-per-week federal unemployment benefit enacted during the pandemic as well as obtaining more money for the state and local towns. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy will be... Read More

WASHINGTON – A group of 13 Senate Democrats has filed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prohibit Israel from using US security assistance funds for the annexation of parts of the West Bank. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) spearheaded the amendment. He was joined by Senators Elizabeth... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy accused President Donald Trump of undermining his own experts after members of the federal coronavirus task force offered a dire forecast for national infection rates on Tuesday. The option of reopening safely while following prevention guidelines is "why it's so impossible for us to watch the experts who testified... Read More

Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both Democrats, on Monday called on Subway CEO John Chidsey to ban the open carry of firearms in all Subway restaurants in the U.S. The senators wrote a letter to Chidsey, pointing to photographs of armed demonstrators protesting stay-at-home restrictions in a... Read More

A New Haven state senator joined with one of the state’s U.S. senators Monday to pump Connecticut’s “Juneteenth Agenda” to address police accountability and systemic racism.   State Sen. Gary Winfield and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy did that in a conversation streamed via Facebook Live. They were joined by Hartford State... Read More

As mostly white college athletic directors require their mostly Black football players to return to campus for "voluntary" workouts amid a growing pandemic, we can no longer ignore how both the COVID-19 crisis and the growing movement for civil justice require us to have an urgent conversation about the fundamental inequities in... Read More