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  • January 19, 2023 — by Molly Ingram
    The parents of Ethan Song joined members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation on Wednesday to encourage lawmakers to pass Ethan’s Law at the federal level. Ethan’s Law would require gun owners to safely secure their firearms at home. Song was 15 years old when he was killed with an unsecured firearm at a friend’s house... Read More
  • January 12, 2023 — by Lisa Hagen
    Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is hoping for another rare bipartisan breakthrough on an issue that has long eluded Congress: reforming the U.S. immigration system. Murphy was part of a bipartisan group of senators who traveled to parts of the border shared by the U.S. and Mexico on Monday and Tuesday — first to El Paso, Texas, and then to Yuma,... Read More
  • January 06, 2023 — by Sadie Gurman
    WASHINGTON–Juvenile-record background checks mandated in last year’s sweeping federal gun legislation have prevented more than two-dozen 18-to-21-year-olds from buying guns after turning up problems such as drug abuse and domestic violence, senators who pushed for the new law said.  The landmark gun bill, in effect since it was... Read More
  • January 06, 2023 — by Vincent Gabrielle
    Nobody is likely to confuse the Golden Gate Bridge for the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in southeastern Connecticut. But the two bridges are in the same category of bridges set to get a facelift thanks to hundreds of millions of dollars in recently announced federal funds. The bridges are two of four projects nationwide boosted by the federal... Read More
  • January 06, 2023 — by Oren Liebermann
    CNN— The Navy’s response to a series of suicides on board a US aircraft carrier was unacceptable, according to two Democratic senators, who called on Navy leadership to improve the living conditions for sailors working in shipyards and provide better mental health care.   There were “multiple mistakes” that led to... Read More
  • January 06, 2023 — by Brianna Gurciullo
    GREENWICH — Two Greenwich nonprofits will see dividends as part of the massive federal omnibus package enacted at the end of 2022. The package includes $100,000 to support sexual assault services at YWCA Greenwich and $1 million for Greenwich-based Family Centers to expand services in Stamford public schools. U.S. Sens. Richard... Read More
  • January 04, 2023 — by Erica Moser
    New London- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 candidate for president and former mayor of South Bend, Ind., visited the city Wednesday to highlight a recently announced $158 million federal grant for repairs to the northbound span of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge. The work will involve structural repairs that increase how... Read More
  • January 02, 2023 — by Richard Kaufman
    STAMFORD, CT — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) late last month announced the inclusion of more than $236 million in the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate. The bill, once passed by the U.S. House of Representatives... Read More
  • December 31, 2022
    Connecticut will get more than $236 million in the fiscal year 2023 after President Biden signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023″ on Thursday. In Connecticut funding will go to 99 congressionally directed spending projects requested by Connecticut’s Democratic Senators, Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal. Of... Read More
  • December 28, 2022 — by Jesse Leavenworth
    President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill named for a missing Waterbury man that is meant to make searches for lost loved ones more effective for families and law enforcement agencies. "Billy's Law," officially the Help Find the Missing Act, is named for William Smolinski Jr., who was 31 years old when he went missing from his home on Aug. 24, 2004.... Read More
  • December 27, 2022 — by Jareliz Diaz
    CONNECTICUT, USA — Families can resume hope for their missing loved ones after President Joe Biden signed into law the "Help Find the Missing Act" also known as Billy's Law on Tuesday. The legislation streamlines the missing persons reporting process by ensuring that law enforcement databases are more accessible and... Read More
  • December 23, 2022 — by Lisa Hagen
    Towns and cities across Connecticut are set to see a major windfall from the $1.7 trillion bill to fund the federal government, thanks to the practice formerly known as earmarking where lawmakers secure large pots of money to benefit their state and districts. More than 170 projects were approved for Connecticut and tucked into the federal funding... Read More
  • December 21, 2022 — by Christine Butterfield
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy introduced legislation on Tuesday that aims to promote gender equity in college and K-12 sports The bill, known as "Fair Play for Women Act," is focused on fairness and equity in participation opportunities and institutional support for women's and girls' sports programs to ensure transparency and public reporting of... Read More
  • December 14, 2022 — by Lisa Hagen
    In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting where a gunman killed 20 children and six teachers, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., started pushing for major reforms to curb the cycle of gun violence disrupting daily life throughout the U.S.   While progress was slow over the past decade due to a gridlocked Congress, the work of... Read More
  • December 13, 2022 — by Dave Collins
    NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom. Instead, the families of the 20 students... Read More
  • December 08, 2022
    Connecticut’s United States senators and representatives held a news conference in Washington, D.C. this morning to mark 10 years since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and people who have lost loved ones spoke, sharing their stories and calling for an end to gun violence. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and... Read More
  • November 28, 2022 — by Jeff Cohen
    Communities across the country are hoping to get a piece of the $3 billion set aside in recent federal legislation for projects that will protect coasts and shoreline communities. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut is giving federal authorities some early feedback.In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Murphy shared... Read More
  • November 17, 2022
    Senator Chris Murphy is one of the most outspoken lawmakers for the rights of college athletes, harshly criticizing the NCAA for policies that he describes as taking advantage of players. He co-authored name, image and likeness (NIL) legislation that he feels is vital to the future of college sports. Senator Murphy joins hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet... Read More
  • November 11, 2022 — by LIZZIE O’LEARY
    On Oct. 31, Sen. Chris Murphy sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut who sits on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, and he had some questions about Twitter, specifically about the Saudi stake in Twitter. The Kingdom Holding Co. and the private office of Prince Al Waleed bin Talal owned Twitter... Read More
  • November 02, 2022 — by Alexander Ward, Rebecca Kern, Matt Berg and Lawrence Ukenye
    Sen. CHRIS MURPHY (D-Conn.) would back a congressional investigation into Saudi Arabia’s stake in Twitter if a government review body doesn’t open a probe first.Murphy placed himself at the middle of this firestorm on Halloween by tweeting that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, should start a probe. “We should be... Read More

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