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  • February 24, 2020
    Tracy Shumaker lives in two worlds — and tries to keep them apart. One world is her day-to-day life in York Correctional Institution in Niantic, which she entered 16 years ago as a 29-year-old. The other lies beyond the walls of the women’s state prison: the world of her family and the life that awaits upon her release. But as she... Read More
  • February 24, 2020
    Groton — U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District and U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., took advantage of a visit by top Navy officials to Electric Boat Monday to advocate for restoring the attack submarine cut under President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal. The lawmakers joined the Chief of... Read More
  • February 12, 2020
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Friday, seeking to reinforce the importance of his country as a strategic U.S. ally after he found himself at the center of President Donald Trump’s acrimonious impeachment trial. “The U.S.-Ukraine relationship is as important... Read More
  • February 12, 2020
    Weir Farm could receive a new federal classification under the National Park Service, better reflecting what the park encompasses. Advocates and part of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation want to change Weir Farm from a national historic site to a national historical park. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.,... Read More
  • February 10, 2020
    SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced Monday that Accuturn Manufacturing Company of South Windsor is this week's "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer." Accuturn specializes in the manufacture of precision-machined components that serve a variety of industries, including aerospace and medical. The company subcontracts for... Read More
  • February 10, 2020
    Washington – The federal government is trying to blunt the impact of the coronavirus, but Connecticut lawmakers remain critical of the Trump administration’s response to the epidemic as state officials wait for more help and guidance. “For years, many of us have warned that Trump’s attacks on global health programs, and... Read More
  • February 06, 2020
    Hartford — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is a Watergate baby. Not one of the young Democrats elected to Congress in 1974, but an actual child of the 70s, born to Republican parents three weeks after America learned of the White House taping system that would fuel a bipartisan groundswell leading to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Murphy, 46,... Read More
  • February 06, 2020
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is requesting the Government Accountability Office review whether the Trump administration is improperly classifying documents that it provided to Congress. In an interview, Murphy, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that the Trump administration’s classification of a letter from Vice President... Read More
  • February 05, 2020
    Washington — The U.S. Senate today acquitted President Donald Trump of two articles of impeachment in a partisan vote that, while expected, prompted Connecticut lawmakers to warn that the failure to remove the president from office will have dire consequences. The Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump of the first article, which found the... Read More
  • February 03, 2020
    The mother of a gun violence victim. An advocate for reduced insulin costs. The uncle of a Marine Corps sniper who committed suicide. Those are some of the guests Connecticut lawmakers are bringing to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday. Sen. Chris Murphy invited Deborah Davis, an organizer with the... Read More
  • February 02, 2020
    Last week, Sen. Chris Murphy said this about the 2020 election: “Make no mistake, this is going to be a national security election, and our nominee needs to be ready to confront this president on his foreign policy malpractice that is making America, and the world, less safe.” I don’t think so. While I agree that the Trump... Read More
  • January 30, 2020
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told regulators Thursday he doesn’t believe Connecticut’s power companies are complying with an order to insulate thousands of low-income families from utility disconnections during the annual, six-month-long winter protection period — an established program that prohibits disconnections from November to... Read More
  • January 30, 2020
    WASHINGTON — Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy was squeezing in his weekly grocery shopping Sunday night on his only day off from the impeachment trial when he saw his phone light up. It was a text from Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, a fellow Democrat, about former national security adviser John Bolton’s explosive account linking President... Read More
  • January 30, 2020
    For months, Egypt ignored paperwork that could have allowed an American to be released from prison outside Cairo and instead the 54-year-old man from New York died behind bars earlier this month, according to his lawyer and a Democratic senator. Moustafa Kassem, 54, who was arrested in 2013 and charged with terrorism-related offenses that both... Read More
  • January 29, 2020
    Washington – President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial entered a new phase on Wednesday as senators submitted questions to Democratic House managers prosecuting the case and the legal team in charge of the president’s defense. “Did anyone in the White House or outside the White House tell anyone in the counsel’s... Read More
  • January 29, 2020
    Connecticut's congressional delegation on Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, urging him to change rules on hemp production. Hemp comes from the cannabis plant but has lower levels of THC, a psychoactive chemical, than marijuana, and it can be used in the food, plastics and textile... Read More
  • January 29, 2020
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday asked the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to probe recent reports that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked by Saudi Arabian officials.  Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director... Read More
  • January 28, 2020
    Washington –  With Connecticut one of 23 states where federal health officials have tested travelers from China for the coronavirus, the state’s U.S. senators on Tuesday asked the Trump administration to provide updates and detailed information on its response to the outbreak. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, along... Read More
  • January 28, 2020
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy was the only Democratic senator Tuesday to receive a White House briefing on new Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace plan,’ before President Donald Trump announced it Tuesday afternoon. Murphy, D-Conn., was invited to meet with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House assistant to the... Read More
  • January 28, 2020
    WATERBURY — Crosby High School junior Jayvon Eason was appointed as a U.S. Senate Page for the Spring 2020 program. “Jayvon is an honor roll student and promising young leader who has a passion for using technology to make government work better for people,” said U.S. Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., who appointed... Read More

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