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  • September 15, 2022
    Sen. Chris Murphy will be in Stratford today to highlight $2.6 billion in federal aid cities and towns are receiving for coastal preservation projects.Murphy today is expected to tour Stratford Point, a new living shorelines project with concrete reef balls designed to protect from erosion and improve wildlife habitats.Murphy will also visit... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by John Moritz
    In the warm waters of Long Island Sound, a few dozen seals were bobbing up and down Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy toured the shores of Plum Island, the site of an aging animal disease research laboratory slated to close in the next several years.Overhead, Murphy said, ospreys and hawks soared in search of food across the 840-acre... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Emily DiSalvo
    BLOOMFIELD — Ana Grace Márquez-Greene would have been a junior in high school this year. But the 6-year-old who loved dancing over walking and singing over talking was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.The first day of classes at the new CREC Ana Grace Academy of the Arts Elementary Magnet School was held Wednesday.... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman
    As more revelations emerge about documents that Donald Trump hoarded at Mar-a-Lago, the political debate is centered on what should and will happen to the former president himself. The Post heightened the urgency of such questions with its latest scoop that one of the documents described “a foreign government’s military defenses,... Read More
  • September 15, 2022
    US Senator Chris Murphy has raised the case of Dr Ahmed Amasha who was forcibly disappeared and subject to brutal sexual assault and torture in Egypt, on the Senate floor."One of my constituents is suffering through the pain and uncertainty of having a relative unjustly imprisoned in Egypt," Murphy said."Mohamed Amasha is studying at Yale... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Hugh McQuaid
    Connecticut’s U.S. senators were among a dozen Democrats who urged federal regulators on Monday to investigate the advertising practices of firearm manufacturers, who they allege have appealed to teenagers through references to popular video games and other media.U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy signed onto a letter, which asked... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Lisa Hagen
    The U.S. Senate will take up one of two nominations to fill vacancies of Connecticut judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week as Democrats race to confirm more of President Joe Biden’s nominees before the November elections — or at least by the end of the year.Sarah Merriam was nominated by Biden last year to serve as a federal... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Daniel Payne and Krista Mahr
    988’S EARLY RESULTS — The 988 suicide prevention line, launched in mid-July, saw a 45 percent increase in calls in August 2022 compared to August 2021.The new system’s first full month showed improvements, according to HHS data released Friday, including faster response times and higher answered rates.Calls, texts and chats routed to 988... Read More
  • September 15, 2022 — by Sten Spinella
    Hartford ?Joined by a group of nurses benefiting by the measure, Democratic U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy discussed the importance of partially canceling student loan debt during a news conference Tuesday morning.Among the nurses were Sherri Dayton, an emergency room nurse and president of the Backus Hospital Federation of... Read More
  • June 30, 2022 — by Kenneth R. Gosselin
    Bradley International Airport soon will mark the end of time-wasting shuttle bus rides for travelers picking up rental cars, a significant milestone celebrated Thursday with the completion of the airport’s $210 million ground transportation center. All the airport’s rental car companies — now scattered in and around Bradley — will be consolidated... Read More
  • June 27, 2022 — by Ari Shapiro
    ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has dominated headlines for the last few days, so much so that it almost eclipsed some major developments in a different long-running American debate - the Second Amendment and the fight over gun safety. Last week, the Supreme Court and Congress made big moves in opposite... Read More
  • June 25, 2022 — by Emily Cochrane and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
    WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday signed into law a bipartisan gun bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms and increase investments in the nation’s mental health system, ending nearly three decades of gridlock in Washington over how to address gun violence in the United States. Final passage of the... Read More
  • June 25, 2022 — by Emily Cochrane and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
    WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday signed into law a bipartisan gun bill intended to prevent dangerous people from accessing firearms and increase investments in the nation’s mental health system, ending nearly three decades of gridlock in Washington over how to address gun violence in the United States. Final passage of the... Read More
  • June 24, 2022 — by Annie Karni and Emily Cochrane
    WASHINGTON — Inside a pink-hued hideaway office in the basement of the Capitol last month, Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, did something unusual for the start of a high-stakes legislative negotiation: Instead of a wish list, he came with a blacklist.Two days earlier, an 18-year-old man had walked into an elementary school in... Read More
  • June 24, 2022 — by Steve Benen
    In the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, a group of lawmakers announced a new round of negotiations on a possible bill to address gun violence. The eye-rolling from many observers was practically audible. After all, it was relatively early in Bill Clinton’s first term when Congress approved legislation to address gun violence, and... Read More
  • June 24, 2022 — by Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine
    In a Washington run by Baby Boomers and octogenarians, it took two 40-something Democrats with a yin-and-yang approach to get a gun safety deal done.  Chris Murphy had developed self-described “pessimism” in his decadelong quest to rein in gun violence. That’s where Kyrsten Sinema came in, pushing her more liberal friend... Read More
  • June 24, 2022 — by Mark Pazniokas
    Chris Murphy flew home Friday in rumpled gray jeans and a blue dress shirt, sleeves rolled to his elbows, eyes bleary. He didn’t wait in Washington for final passage of America’s first significant gun safety law in three decades, one that he negotiated and shepherded to passage late Thursday in the Senate. “We worked last night... Read More
  • June 24, 2022 — by Lauren Fox
    Thursday night, both Sens. Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer had reason to celebrate. After decades of inaction on gun legislation, the two men were able to achieve something that neither had imagined possible just weeks before: a compromise on gun safety legislation brokered by four members they'd each given their blessing to negotiate. For... Read More
  • June 23, 2022 — by Mike DeBonis
    The Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at stanching acts of mass gun violence, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats to advance a bill combining modest new firearms restrictions with $15 billion in mental health and school security funding. The 65-to-33 vote represented an unlikely breakthrough on the emotional and polarizing question of... Read More
  • June 23, 2022 — by Lindsay Schnell
    As the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark law banning sex discrimination in education, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, will introduce a bill in the coming weeks to improve gender equity in sports, his office told USA TODAY. Murphy, who will cosponsor the Fair Play for Women Act of 2022 with Rep. Alma Adams,... Read More

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