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  • July 29, 2019
    Senator Richard Blumenthal said Monday President Donald Trump's ongoing Twitter assault on Rep. Elijah Cummings and the city he represents, Baltimore, are "despicable," and "a profound disservice to our nation."  Trump has characterized Baltimore in his tirade as "a rodent-infested mess," where "no human being would want to live." He also... Read More
  • July 29, 2019
    Sen. Chris Murphy on Monday dismissed Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Donald Trump's nominee to become the next director of national intelligence, as a "television character" who is an "inappropriate choice" for the historically nonpartisan post. "I don't know this guy," Murphy (D-Conn.) said on MSNBC. "I think he's a... Read More
  • July 28, 2019
    On a busy day, as many as 300 students, faculty and staff at Manchester Community College will visit the school's food pantry to help make ends meet with free groceries. It's one of about a half-dozen such programs at Connecticut's state-run community colleges. They have sprung up in recent years to help address what's become a growing problem of... Read More
  • July 25, 2019
    Major college athletic programs are failing in their promise to deliver athletes a quality education and "routinely defraud athletes of the tremendous value" a college scholarship holds, a U.S. senator said in a new report issued Thursday morning. "The lack of academic integrity across college sports may be the most insidious piece of a broken... Read More
  • July 25, 2019
    Sen. Chris Murphy bluntly criticized the NCAA on Thursday in a report centered on student-athlete education. "The lack of academic integrity across college sports may be the most insidious piece of a broken system," the report said, noting that student-athletes, who sometimes spend more than 50 hours a week on athletic activities,... Read More
  • July 25, 2019
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro have reintroduced legislation that is designed to double the $5,000 pretax limit that employees can set aside to help offset child care costs. The Child Care Flex Spending Act would allow employees earning less than $150,000 annually to set aside up to $10,000 in pretaxed funds per year to... Read More
  • July 22, 2019
    hris Murphy and Jahana Hayes have spent time on college campuses and heard from students firsthand that they struggle to both feed themselves and pay tuition. About 100 students at UConn's Waterbury campus spoke to Hayes at a recent roundtable about the problem, she said. Seeking a solution, Hayes, who represents Connecticut's 5th... Read More
  • July 22, 2019
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy  of Connecticut has reintroduced the Student Loan Forgiveness for Farmers and Ranchers Act (S. 2168), a bill designed to create a loan forgiveness for new  farmers and ranchers. According to Murphy, one in four principal farm operators in Connecticut can be defined as a "beginning farmer," which means... Read More
  • July 18, 2019
    As the U.S. Congress continues debate on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, and Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, reintroduced the Student Loan Forgiveness for Farmers and Ranchers Act Wednesday. It would create a loan forgiveness program for beginning farmers and ranchers, as well as other groups... Read More
  • July 17, 2019
    U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have joined more than three dozen Democrats supporting a bill that aims to put an end to the "cruel and neglectful treatment of children at the U.S.-Mexico border," and reform how youth seeking asylum are treated, the Connecticut Democrats said Wednesday. "Through policies of fear and... Read More
  • July 11, 2019
    A recent federal watchdog report about the breadth of food insecurity on America's college campuses came with a caveat: "Nationally representative survey data that would support direct estimates of the prevalence of food insecurity among college students do not exist," the Government Accountability Office wrote in the report to lawmakers. There is... Read More
  • July 11, 2019
    Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Jahana Hayes are sponsoring a measure that aims to address hunger among college students. The bill would collect data on hunger and food insecurity on college campuses and provide information on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other resources. "No student should ever have to worry about... Read More
  • July 09, 2019
    Today in a federal courthouse in Louisiana, the Trump administration will argue that protections for over 522,000 people in Connecticut with pre-existing conditions should be invalidated immediately. If this comes as a surprise, I don't blame you. Anyone who has read the president's Twitter feed would be led to believe that while the president... Read More
  • July 08, 2019
    For all their differences on "Medicare for All," Democrats will have a chance to rally around the 2010 health care law this week. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will hear oral arguments in the high-profile Texas v. Azar lawsuit on Tuesday, which could spell the future of the health care law and become a major issue in the 2020... Read More
  • July 05, 2019
    The route changes every year, but the issues concerning Connecticut residents remain the same: "taxes, how much money they're making and the quality of their schools," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said on Friday, the last day of his fourth annual walk across the state. Murphy starting walking on Monday and covered about 100 miles... Read More
  • July 03, 2019
     U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy perhaps enjoyed one of his periodic walks across the state a little too much Wednesday: He was so engrossed in conversations he struck up with people along the way that he missed his stop. "I figured I'd get a few more miles under my belt," said Murphy, D-Conn., as he showed up five minutes late to his... Read More
  • June 21, 2019
    After President Trump authorized an attack on Iran and then abruptly changed course on Thursday night, Democrats reiterated calls for restraint and demanded congressional oversight of military action. "Donald Trump promised to bring our troops home. Instead he has pulled out of a deal that was working and instigated another unnecessary conflict,"... Read More
  • June 21, 2019
    Senators from New York and Connecticut are renewing their commitment to preserving Plum Island, a highly restricted government research site situated in Long Island Sound. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have filed an amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act... Read More
  • June 20, 2019
    WASHINGTON - Just a week after gun control bills were signed into law in Nevada, congressional lawmakers from cities and states that have fallen victim to mass shootings gathered at the Capitol to urge the Senate to pass a bill for universal background checks. The gathering was emotional, as former Rep. Gabriel Giffords, D-Ariz., urged supporters... Read More
  • June 20, 2019
    WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to block the sale of billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, in a sharp and bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to circumvent Congress to allow the exports by declaring an emergency over Iran. In three back-to-back votes, Republicans... Read More

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