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  • August 03, 2020
    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
  • July 31, 2020
    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
  • July 30, 2020
    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
  • July 24, 2020
    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
  • July 21, 2020
    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
  • July 16, 2020
    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
  • July 04, 2020
    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
  • June 30, 2020
    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
  • June 29, 2020
    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
  • June 29, 2020
    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
  • June 25, 2020
    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
  • June 15, 2020
    MIDDLETOWN — City and school leaders met virtually with the state’s junior senator Monday to talk about the need for racial justice and desegregation in Middletown schools, and across the nation. Discussions such as these are taking place throughout the country as a result of the death of George Floyd by Minneapolis police May 25, and subsequent... Read More
  • June 09, 2020
    Systematic mistreatment of black people by law enforcement underscores the need to desegregate schools.  That's the argument right now from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., one of the foremost champions of school desegregation in Congress. Murphy's legislation—the Strength in Diversity Act, which he introduced in 2019 along with Rep. Marcia Fudge,... Read More
  • June 08, 2020
    Prodded by a national uproar over police brutality, lawmakers — including Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy — plan to introduce a series of police reform bills this week. Some of the more ambitious legislation may face pushback by congressional Republicans who also want to take action but prefer a more “hands... Read More
  • June 05, 2020
    Connecticut's two senators want to limit when the president can use the military against protesters. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy say Washington, D.C. has been turned into a war zone. The images of federal troops clearing peaceful protesters ahead of President Donald Trump walking across the street to visit a church outraged Murphy. He... Read More
  • June 04, 2020
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) last night announced plans for new legislation that will be worth watching closely. The Connecticut Democrat wrote on Twitter: "We cannot tolerate an American secret police. I will be introducing legislation to require uniformed federal officers performing any domestic security duties to clearly identify what... Read More
  • June 01, 2020
    On the Zoom call was Connecticut’s governor, a U.S. senator, a congresswoman, a state’s attorney, a police chief, a mayor, civil rights leaders, clergy and others. Over 90 minutes, everyone agreed: The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the knee of an indifferent police officer demands urgent action. But what? By whom? And... Read More
  • May 27, 2020
    CHESTER — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) chose Whelen Engineering Company, Inc., in Chester as “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Founded in 1952 by George W. Whelen III in his garage in Deep River, Whelen Engineering Company specializes in the manufacturing of warning lights, white illumination lighting, vehicle control... Read More
  • May 26, 2020
    HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)– Even though portions of Connecticut’s economy reopened last week, food insecurity, meaning people struggling to have enough to eat, continues to be a growing problem. The pandemic has changed the way Meals on Wheels is serving those still at home. “This was happening before the pandemic even... Read More
  • May 14, 2020
    With U.S. gun sales soaring during the coronavirus pandemic, a group of 15 Senate Democrats is introducing legislation calling for new restrictions on untraceable “ghost guns.” Made using gun kits or by 3D printing — and sometimes referred to as “80 percent guns” because they haven’t reached a level of... Read More

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