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  • April 15, 2019
    Hundreds attended a forum at the Gaelic American Club (GAC) in Fairfield on April 15, 2019 to listen to US Senator Chris Murphy and former Congressman Bruce Morrison talk about Brexit's impact on Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Peace Accord. The forum was attended by many community leaders including Fairfield First Selectman Michael... Read More
  • April 15, 2019
    FAIRFIELD, CT - U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal visited striking Stop & Shop Workers in Fairfield Monday afternoon on the fifth day of the workers' strike against the company. Murphy said: "Stop & Shop workers are facing big cuts to their health care and take-home pay. I support folks who are standing up and speaking out.... Read More
  • April 15, 2019
    NORWALK — From the Walk Bridge to the SoNo Collection Mall to the construction at Washington Village, Sen. Chris Murphy received a “bird’s-eye view” of a variety of projects happening in the city. “In this job, you need to make sure you know all the local opportunities so that if some money shows up at the federal... Read More
  • April 12, 2019
    WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy says it’s time for Congress to reinvent the way colleges and universities are accredited to put the emphasis on the real world outcomes of their students. “The outcomes crisis in higher education is real and it threatens to bankrupt the students, families, and the American treasury if we... Read More
  • April 08, 2019
    NEW HAVEN,Conn. (WTNH) - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy is set to unveil new legislation Monday that would boost innovation and entrepreneurship in New Haven. Murphy will tour District, a tech hub that includes co-working space, businesses and an engineering school, with CEO David Salinas, a member of Murphy's Advisory Council on fostering... Read More
  • April 08, 2019
    WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) - In an effort to end violence against women, Connecticut lawmakers are visiting the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Wethersfield on Monday. This comes after the U.S. House of Representatives reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act. U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal will have a... Read More
  • April 06, 2019
    When the men’s basketball Final Four tips off Saturday in Minneapolis, the NCAA’s biggest and most lucrative event will proceed as it normally does: the athletes on the floor for Virginia and Auburn, Michigan State and Texas Tech, will play games that generate hundreds of millions of dollars in total revenue for their schools, the NCAA... Read More
  • April 04, 2019
    In the wake of the Trump administration's latest attempt to overturn the Affordable Care Act, Axios' Mike Allen sat down with a series of policy makers to dissect the state and future of health care in America. Why it matters: We heard from leaders on both sides of the aisle as well as Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), who earlier this week... Read More
  • April 04, 2019
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting a plank of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the House on Thursday invoked never-before-used powers to demand that his administration withdraw support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen . The Senate passed the same resolution in March with bipartisan support. Trump is expected to issue a veto of the... Read More
  • April 02, 2019
    WASHINGTON — Long before he was Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., he was Commissioner Chris Murphy. When he was 10 or 11, Murphy formed a fantasy football league with his friends in middle school. This was in the days before the internet, of course, so he would spend hours putting together giant draft boards and writing out the available players... Read More
  • March 29, 2019
    Even if you’ve never been diagnosed with cancer, you probably have an image of what treatment looks like. A patient hooked up to an IV, maybe having lost some of their hair. They’re tired and nauseous, and struggle to hold on to their sense of who they were before cancer. Until recently, this was the only way to fight the... Read More
  • March 28, 2019
    It was when Zion Williamson’s shoe exploded in the first 30 seconds of the Duke-UNC game in late February that Senator Chris Murphy decided it was time to do something. The Democrat from Connecticut had been looking into the NCAA’s rules against paying student-athletes for about five months by the time Williamson—the mortal lock... Read More
  • March 28, 2019
    Washington — When a gunman stormed two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand and killed 50 people, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promptly announced she would push for a national ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The stark contrast between the rapid action in New Zealand and the lack of federal... Read More
  • March 28, 2019
    While most people are fretting over their brackets as March Madness enters the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament this week, US Senator Chris Murphy is thinking about something else sports-related: paying the student athletes playing in the games. The Connecticut lawmaker and his office Thursday released the first in a series of reports about how... Read More
  • March 27, 2019
    STAMFORD — A Connecticut senator questioned the head of the U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday on a proposed budget that would cut funding for the Northeast Corridor. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., challenged Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao on the cuts, which he said are incongruous with the administration’s own... Read More
  • March 27, 2019
    U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy of Connecticut joined high school students in Washington, one year after the March for Our Lives against gun violence. Blumenthal honored three recently passed mass shooting survivors, including James Richman who died in Newtown on Monday, saying the legacy of lives lost due to gun violence should... Read More
  • March 27, 2019
    Washington – When Paola Esparra left Dorado, Puerto Rico for New Britain a little more than a year ago, she thought she was fleeing her hurricane-wrecked homeland for an education in accounting at Central Connecticut State University. Now her horizons have expanded and Esparra, 22, is considering a future in politics. “It once was not... Read More
  • March 25, 2019
    NEW BRITAIN - Connecticut’s two senators said Monday morning that the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be made public beyond the summary letter Attorney General William Barr provided to Congress. Their comments on the two-year probe were made following a forum on arming teachers with guns at New Britain High School. On Friday,... Read More
  • March 25, 2019
    NEW BRITAIN - Students at New Britain High School told a few members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation that teachers should not be armed in schools. The message came during a roundtable discussion in the school’s library with U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, and U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes. The legislators were there... Read More
  • March 25, 2019
    NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) - Lawmakers held a discussion about gun violence on Monday morning in New Britain. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal joined Rep. Jahana Hayes for a discussion with teachers, students and school administrators. The focus was about keeping guns out of classrooms. Students argued that more guns in school could stifle the... Read More

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