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  • May 17, 2019
    Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy has emerged as a leading Democratic voice on foreign policy, helping his party forge an alternative to Trump administration initiatives – and raising his profile in an area that could advance his political career. Since President Donald Trump assumed office at the beginning of 2017, Murphy, a member... Read More
  • May 16, 2019
    The NCAA is looking at how its rules can be modified to allow college athletes to be compensated for their names, images and likenesses. NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors announced Tuesday that Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith will head a new working group on the... Read More
  • May 14, 2019
    MIDDLETOWN — The state’s junior U.S. senator visited Middlesex Community College in Middletown May 6 to lead a forum with students and advocates to unveil his report, the “Hidden Cost of College: Addressing Food and Housing Insecurity Among College Students.” Murphy, a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education,... Read More
  • May 14, 2019
    Take one look at the chaos in Libya, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan and it’s hard to imagine why any American leader would be itching to put the United States into another foreign war. But that’s what could be happening right now, as the hawkish advisers to President Donald Trump walk us toward conflict with Iran. Americans need to... Read More
  • May 13, 2019
    WINDSOR LOCKS - The state of United States manufacturing was the focus topic of the fourth annual Connecticut Export Week’s conference held April 29 and attended by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, manufacturers and other businesses across the state. Connecticut Export Week was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade... Read More
  • May 10, 2019
    Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Friday for a probe into Rudy Giuliani's efforts to influence investigations in Ukraine he anticipates as possibly beneficial to President Donald Trump, citing "the implications of this for United States foreign policy." In a letter to the committee's Republican... Read More
  • May 02, 2019
    As the leaders of the Senate subcommittee focused on foreign policy in the Middle East, Sens. Mitt Romney and Christopher S. Murphy might be spending a lot of time together overseas in the coming years. The Republican from Utah and Democrat from Connecticut are back at the Capitol this week after spending the second half of... Read More
  • April 30, 2019
    Washington –Sen. Chris Murphy has returned from a five-day trip to the Middle East with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney with the “sense” that Israel’s Muslim neighbors have “low expectations” for the Trump administration’s peace plan for the region, which has yet to be unveiled. “But with low expectations... Read More
  • April 30, 2019
    WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - For Jeneva Stone and her family, Medicaid has been a lifesaver. Her son Rob suffers from a rare disease. She said medical bankruptcy was a real possibility before receiving Medicaid in 2012.  "Because of Medicaid Rob can be with his family rather than a nursing home, where no 21-year-old man should be, Stone... Read More
  • April 29, 2019
    NEWTOWN, Conn. — Six years ago this month, Mark Barden and Nicole Hockley watched from the gallery, counting the yeas, as the Senate voted on expanding background checks. Four months had passed since his son, Daniel, and her son, Dylan, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and at no point in that time had they imagined the bill would... Read More
  • April 23, 2019
    WATERBURY — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has written a letter to Metro-North Railroad asking it to reconsider a schedule change he says “severely diminishes the Waterbury branch line as a commuting option.” As part of dozens of changes that took effect on the New Haven Line and its branches last week, the rail operator pushed... Read More
  • April 23, 2019
    (WTNH) - Two U.S. senators will be traveling to the Middle East in the coming days. Ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, Sen. Mitt... Read More
  • April 22, 2019
    HARTFORD - A visit to a community college, a roundtable at an American job center and a tour of Electric Boat were hosted last Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Gov. Ned Lamont to showcase the success of the Eastern Connecticut Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative. The... Read More
  • April 19, 2019
    GUILFORD, CT - U. S. Sen. Chris Murphy toured five different area locales Thursday to push his climate change initiative. One of the places he visited was Bishop's Orchards - the site of largest farm energy project undertaken yet to date in the state of Connecticut. Bishop's has built an extensive solar farm to fuel its operations. On a tour of... Read More
  • April 18, 2019
    WALLINGFORD — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Thursday the nation is in a race with the China in the energy sector it can not afford to lose. Murphy said the Chinese are working with energy technology companies in a variety of areas, including developing new ways to make hydrogen that will be used in such things as power storage and... Read More
  • April 18, 2019
    MADISON, Conn. (WTNH) - A special visitor at the Meigs Point Nature Center in Madison on Thursday. Senator Chris Murphy toured the facility at Hammonasset Beach State Park. He learned about the environmental conservation efforts going on there. The senator also discussed environmental issues impacting the shoreline. Senator... Read More
  • April 16, 2019
    There were two points U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta stressed several times throughout his visit to Eastern Connecticut on Tuesday: It's crucial to promote what he calls "demand-driven education," and that manufacturing wages have gone up more than wages for any other sector in Connecticut. At the request of Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.,... Read More
  • April 16, 2019
    Tara Gottlieb’s parents were closing their jewelry store in Connecticut one evening when a drug addict took both of their lives with a stolen gun. Now, she advocates for gun sense. The gun used to kill Gottlieb’s parents was stolen from a Greenwich home during a break-in. “You know, right now, Connecticut is very focused on safe... Read More
  • April 16, 2019
    The U.S. Secretary of Labor spent much of Tuesday getting an up-close look at the region’s Manufacturing Pipeline Initiative, a collaborative effort between local employers and schools aimed at addressing the need for qualified workers at high-tech companies such as Electric Boat. Secretary Alexander Acosta, flanked by the U.S. Sens. Richard... Read More
  • April 16, 2019
    Although his time was brief, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a quick tour of ASML in Wilton on Monday, April 15, and spoke to employees, praising them and the company for their work and the facility’s expansion project. “Thank you for making a big commitment to Connecticut in advanced manufacturing,” Murphy told several hundred ASML... Read More

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