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  • June 14, 2022 — by Sabrina Tavernise
     The Senate has reached a bipartisan deal that could lead to the most significant federal response to gun violence in decades. Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, was deeply involved in the negotiations. Today, he tells us how news of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, left him with a feeling of desperation — and renewed... Read More
  • June 13, 2022 — by John Cassidy
    The first step in understanding the new legislative framework on gun violence that a bipartisan group of senators agreed to on Sunday is grasping how its Republican participants see it. “This is not about creating new restrictions on law-abiding citizens,” Senator John Cornyn, who led the Republican side, said last week.... Read More
  • June 13, 2022 — by Russell Berman
    Time is the enemy of gun-control legislation, any advocate will tell you. The outcry for stricter gun laws has always been loudest during moments of national horror, in the hours and days after a massacre, when the anger is raw and the anguish of grieving survivors and families fills the airwaves. That brief window for action quickly begins to... Read More
  • June 13, 2022
    Getting sensible gun reform has long been thought to be all but impossible. Yet on June 12th ten Democrats and ten Republicans reached an agreement designed to curb gun violence. If passed into law, it could be the most significant reform in three decades. “This is not window dressing,” Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator from... Read More
  • June 12, 2022 — by Alan Fram
    Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs. The proposal falls far short of tougher steps long sought by President Joe Biden and many... Read More
  • June 12, 2022 — by Annie Karni
    It did not take long after the racist gun massacre in Buffalofor a familiar sense of resignation to set in on Capitol Hill about the chance that Congress would be able to muster the will to act on meaningful legislation to combat gun violence in America. In emotional remarks at the scene of the mass shooting on Tuesday, President Biden made no... Read More
  • June 08, 2022 — by Alex Putterman
    ??In the weeks since a teenage gunman killed 21 people in an Uvalde, Texas elementary school, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has been hard to miss. His speech on the Senate floor the night of the shooting went ultra-viral, drawing millions of views and a retweet from LeBron James. He has appeared on CNN and “The Daily Show” and published an... Read More
  • June 07, 2022 — by Morgan Chaflant
    President Biden is meeting with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday to discuss ongoing negotiations among senators working to come to a consensus on gun violence-related legislation, the White House said. It will be Biden’s first such meeting since the bipartisan talks on guns kicked off following the mass shooting at a Texas... Read More
  • June 03, 2022 — by Michelle Ruiz
    Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy was in Vice President Kamala Harris’s seat, presiding over the Senate chamber, when he first heard about Uvalde. “I just sunk into the chair,” Murphy tells Vogue over the phone 48 hours later. The question he asked in an electrifying and rage-filled speech on the Senate floor minutes after learning... Read More
  • May 27, 2022 — by Oprah Winfrey
    Hours after the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut took to the Senate floor with an emotional plea, saying:  "What are we doing? Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate? Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a... Read More
  • May 26, 2022 — by Kara Voght
    Chris Murphy has seen the photographs of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Connecticut senator is one of the few people who have. The public has been spared the images of the “unthinkable, grisly, horrific scenes,” he says, so shocking that the first responders who first entered the classrooms required as much counseling as... Read More
  • May 26, 2022 — by Stephanie Simoni
    Connecticut Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal say the shooting in Texas hits too close to home. Now they are focusing on legislation to try and to prevent another tragedy. The Connecticut lawmakers vividly remember when a gunman opened fire inside Sandy Hook elementary school, killing 26 people. Now they’re focusing on legislation... Read More
  • May 24, 2022 — by Anushka Patil
    Senator Chris Murphy was a young United States representative from Connecticut when he stood at a firehouse in 2012 with families from his district as they learned that their children, all first graders, had been shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On Tuesday, nearly 10 years later, he stood on the Senate floor in anguish as yet another... Read More
  • August 18, 2021
    The 1.2 trillion federal Infrastructure bill before the United States House of Representatives could bring billions of dollars to Connecticut for roads, bridges, airports, transit, rail systems, ports and waterways. Local officials and federal officials will hold a news conference this morning on the impact it could have for the state.On Wednesday... Read More
  • August 18, 2021 — by CHRISTOPHER KEATING
    HARTFORD — Connecticut would receive billions of dollars over the years for highways, bridges, railroads, airports if Congress grants final approval to a $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill.The bipartisan infrastructure package was already approved by the U.S. Senate by 69-30, but still needs approval in the U.S. House of Representatives.U.S.... Read More
  • August 17, 2021 — by Davis Dunavin
    A New Haven-based refugee resettlement agency welcomed seven arrivals from Afghanistan late Monday night. They fled as the Taliban seized control of the country.Chris George is with IRIS — Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services. The organization took in a single man from Kandahar and a family of six who left from the Kabul airport just before it... Read More
  • August 17, 2021 — by CHRISTOPHER KEATING
    HARTFORD — U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy called Tuesday for increased protection for women in Afghanistan as the Taliban has swept into power in a chaotic country.The senators, along with a bipartisan group of more than 40 colleagues, are looking for increased efforts to ensure that women and children are removed safely from the... Read More
  • August 15, 2021
    HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) - In the Middle East Sunday, Afghanistan's embattled president has left the country, joining thousands of his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the Taliban. Here in Connecticut, lawmakers are speaking out. The Taliban has reportedly fanned out across the capital. A group of fighters is now controlling the... Read More
  • August 14, 2021 — by Ella Nilsen and Natasha Bertrand
    (CNN) In a summer of deadly and life-altering extreme weather, the Biden administration and Democrats are walking a tightrope, with a razor-thin majority in Congress, to enact policies that will reroute the US economy away from fossil fuels and show the world that the US will lead on climate change.Many of President Joe Biden's climate provisions... Read More
  • August 14, 2021 — by REBECCA KHEEL
    Democrats are coming to President Biden's defense as Afghanistan teeters on the brink of collapse weeks before the U.S. military mission there officially ends, arguing more time wouldn't make any difference.The Taliban have won control of half of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, including the country’s second- and third-largest cities, in just... Read More

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