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  • December 06, 2019
    In recent months, California has passed a landmark law expanding college athletes’ rights and the NCAA has indicated it could consider relaxing rules that prohibit athletes from benefiting from the use of their names, images and likenesses. As the various stakeholders rethink the long-standing collegiate amateurism model, a group of U.S.... Read More
  • December 05, 2019
    Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy held a news conference in Washington Thursday pushing for an end gun violence. The senators and Reps. Jahana Hayes and Rosa DeLauro joined multiple organizations to advocate against gun violence this week. The Connecticut lawmakers also attended a national vigil for victims of... Read More
  • December 04, 2019
    WASHINGTON — In the span of three months, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made two trips to foreign countries where U.S. military aid was being withheld without explanation by the Trump administration and both times, within a week of his return, the assistance was released. The first trip was to Ukraine, the nation now starring in the impeachment... Read More
  • December 03, 2019
    Washington – Every member of Connecticut’s congressional delegation has asked the Trump administration to abandon a new rule they say would cut or eliminate benefits for as many as 45% of the state’s food stamp recipients. “This proposed rule dramatically undermines Connecticut’s ability to assist families in need... Read More
  • December 03, 2019
    The White House last week quietly released $105 million in military aid to Lebanon that had languished for months despite approval from the U.S. Congress, the Department of Defense, and the State Department, leading some lawmakers to compare it to the frozen Ukraine aid at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. So far,... Read More
  • December 02, 2019
    WASHINGTON, DC (WTNH) — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy will join a rally with gun violence survivors and prevention advocates in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.  The Supreme Court will hear arguments in NYSRPA v. City of New York, the first major Second Amendment case to go before the Court in nearly a... Read More
  • November 25, 2019
    WASHINGTON, DC/NORTH-CENTRAL, CT — U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02) and John Larson (CT-01), and U.S. Sens Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT), on Monday released a letter they received from the IRS confirming that the Connecticut Foundation Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc., or CFSIc, is not required to issue federal... Read More
  • November 24, 2019
    A U.S. senator from Connecticut visited the home of a detained human rights activist in the Mideast island kingdom of Bahrain. Activists shared photographs with The Associated Press showing Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, visiting the home of Nabeel Rajab on Saturday night. Murphy had been in the kingdom for the annual Manama Dialogue security... Read More
  • November 20, 2019
    Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy has given Democrats conducting an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump an accounting of his September trip to Ukraine — a letter written after his Republican companion on the trip, Sen. Ron Johnson, sent GOP lawmakers his own analysis of that visit. Johnson concluded in his Nov. 18... Read More
  • November 18, 2019
    The seventh anniversary of the shooting that jolted the nation is fast approaching. On Dec. 14, 2012 an emotionally and psychologically troubled 20-year-old blasted his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown and used a semi-automatic assault rifle to quickly kill six adult educators and 20 children before shooting himself. The timing... Read More
  • November 18, 2019
    On Thursday (November 14), students at a high school just north of Los Angeles, California, were on lockdown. At least two students were killed and several others were injured when an armed classmate attacked Saugus High School in Santa Clarita. That same morning, Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut were in Washington, D.C.,... Read More
  • November 17, 2019
    Federal funding for community health centers is nearing expiration this year. And both health professionals and politicians are warning, that may have some impacts on Connecticut centers and patients. Laying people off of work isn’t something that CEO Nichelle Mullins wants to do just before the holidays. But if federal funding for Charter... Read More
  • November 15, 2019
    In the wake of the Santa Clarita shooting, Connecticut’s United States senators are renewing their push for gun control legislation but a relative of a Sandy Hook victim says it’s an unproductive effort. “It goes beyond a political responsibility or a legal mandate. It’s a moral imperative that we stop... Read More
  • November 14, 2019
    Moments before a shooting in California, Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators took to the Senate floor Thursday to scold their Republican colleagues for refusing to take a vote on expanded gun background-check legislation.  Their remarks were made almost at the same moment multiple people were injured, at least two fatally, in a shooting at... Read More
  • November 11, 2019
    A local business has been highlighted as part of U.S. Senator Chris Murphy's (D-Conn.) series on manufacturers across the state. Bausch Advanced Technologies, Inc., a specialist in the manufacturing of customized systems for primary packaging of syringes, cartridges and vials for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, was recognized for its... Read More
  • November 11, 2019
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has teamed with New Hampshire’s U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to author the Fair Indexing for Health Care Affordability Act, which is designed to roll back a recent Trump administration’s rule change related to eligibility for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) premium tax credits. According to a... Read More
  • November 05, 2019
    U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen. Chris Murphy and five other colleagues have written Secretary of State Michael Pompeo “to express our concerns for the safety and fair treatment” of Gavin Hapgood, the Darien man charged with manslaughter in Anguilla. Hapgood faces a Nov. 11 hearing in Anguilla and the letter notes that... Read More
  • November 04, 2019
    The U.S. Navy has reached an agreement with the parent company of Groton-based Electric Boat on a multibillion-dollar deal to buy the next batch of Virginia-class attack submarines, according to the service. After protracted negotiations, the deal was cut from 11 submarines to nine, with an option to buy a 10th vessel in 2023, because funding was... Read More
  • November 04, 2019
    Top federal and state environmental officials from New England and New York announced 35 grants totaling $2.6 million to local state and local government and community groups to improve the health and ecosystem of Long Island Sound. Twenty grants totaling $1.4 million benefit Connecticut. Three grants totaling $250,000 benefit Massachusetts and... Read More
  • November 03, 2019
    CLINTON, CT — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) recently announced that BAUSCH Advanced Technologies, Inc. (BAT) in Clinton was a "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer" honoree. Founded in 2004 and working out of a 38,000 square foot facility, BAT specializes in the manufacturing of customized systems for primary packaging of syringes, cartridges and... Read More

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