NORWALK — One week after the upcoming election, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could overturn the Affordable Care Act, leaving more than 260,000 Connecticut residents without health insurance. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Wednesday held a roundtable discussion attended by about 20 people at... Read More

A Friday panel tackled a major debate in the world of college sports today: the rights of student-athletes and how they should be compensated.  The event was attended by several professors and two United States senators, including former presidential candidate Cory Booker (D-NJ). Moderated by David Duncan, co-president of the Duke Sports and... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy wished Donald Trump a “speedy recovery” from Covid-19 — and warned the president’s irresponsible behavior in contracting and spreading it may create a “serious national security” threat. The Connecticut Democrat issued those warnings in a statement released Friday hours after the revelation... Read More

Sept. 30, 2020 —U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Wednesday that innovator Tangen Biosciences in Branford has been named "Innovator of the Month." Founded in 2013 by two Connecticut natives, Tangen's goal has been to bring high quality molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases out of the laboratory and closer to the... Read More

A bipartisan pair of senators is expressing concern about the Trump administration’s reported threats to withdraw from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraq cannot stop militia attacks against U.S. personnel. In a statement Wednesday, Sens. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), respectively the chairman and... Read More

Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy on Thursday said Democrats are in a “position legally to jump at the first sign the president is trying to shut down the vote” during the November election. He also said Senate Democrats are speaking with their GOP colleagues “to make sure they are ready for a potential transmission”... Read More

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Sept. 22: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, along with Protect Our Care's Executive Director Brad Woodhouse and health... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has joined with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to introduce a resolution in support of the people of Belarus.   The Eastern European nation entered its seventh week of massive protests Sunday with calls for authoritarian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to resign. Tens of thousands of... Read More

STAMFORD — Health care information firm Sema4’s executives believe their business is “well positioned” after recently raising $121 million in new funding and achieving an overall valuation of more than $1 billion. With scores of employees on their way to their new building in Stamford’s Waterside section,... Read More

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)– It’s been more than three months since the House passed a second Coronavirus stimulus bill. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy is renewing his call for the Senate to take up that bill to get money in the hands of communities across the country. Hartford was hit hard and early in the pandemic. Now, Senator Murphy thinks... Read More

SHELTON — Faced with impending pandemic-induced layoffs and furloughs, Bing Carbone and his executives staff at Modern Plastics had to think fast. “We had to come up with a game plan,” he recalled. “We are in the business of plastics and saw a need for mass production of face shields and face masks so we quickly retrofitted... Read More

Newhallville resident Lisa Hargreaves opened her door Friday to the familiar faces of U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, State Rep. Robyn Porter, and State Sen. Gary Winfield after the team came knocking with handouts on completing the U.S. census. Hargreaves told the census group that she completed her form about a month ago and would pass on the information... Read More

WATERBURY – U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy visited a local manufacturer Thursday where employees showed him how the company has been using its technology to create personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. LoganTech, at 327 Huntingdon Ave., manufactures technology for people with disabilities, including communication devices for... Read More

NEW HAVEN — Lisa Hargreaves said she had taken advantage of filling out the census on the internet and knew why it was important. A cheer went up from the three elected officials who were standing on her porch Friday in their surprise visit to Thompson Street in Hargreaves’ Newhallville neighborhood. “Awesome,” state Rep.... 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

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

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

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 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