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  • January 23, 2019
    NEW BRITAIN, CT —The federal government shutdown is impacting people besides federal workers going without paychecks. U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy sought to draw attention Tuesday to struggling domestic violence shelters, like the Prudence Crandall Center in New Britain. The Prudence Crandall Center is one of... Read More
  • January 23, 2019
    WASHINGTON (WFSB) - Connecticut's U.S. senators have joined other top lawmakers to introduce a bill that would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal joined Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont to propose raising the wage to $15 per hour by 2024 They introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2019 on... Read More
  • January 22, 2019
    NEW LONDON, Conn. (WTNH) - Members of the U.S. Coast Guard are working hard to make ends meet during the partial government shutdown. They are among the 800,000 federal workers, who have either been furloughed or who are now working without pay. The shutdown began back on December 22nd. On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy visited a pop-up pantry... Read More
  • January 22, 2019
    New London — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy was quick to denounce a bill, likely to be brought up for a vote in the Senate in the coming days, to reopen the government, but said he is optimistic that the Senate will pass a bill this week to fund the Coast Guard. There's a debate, however, whether the bill would apply only to active-duty Coast Guard... Read More
  • January 22, 2019
    MIDDLETOWN — U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, both D-Connecticut, joined a bipartisan resolution led by U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, Jan. 17, recognizing January as National Mentoring Month. The designation is meant to raise awareness of the power of mentors to help young people... Read More
  • January 21, 2019
    WASHINGTON – In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Friday that 15 elementary, middle, and high school students from across Connecticut were selected as winners of his third annual ‘Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Essay Challenge.’ This year, Murphy received over 1,000 essays... Read More
  • January 10, 2019
    (WTNH) - Senator Chris Murphy shared some letters and e-mails he has received from people in Connecticut affected by the government shutdown. On the Senator's Facebook, Murphy read the messages on Facebook Live, including one from Courtney of Northford who comes from a Coast Guard family. "Because of the shutdown, she is unable to pay for gas to... Read More
  • January 09, 2019
    WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today led a group of senators in introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, an updated bill to ban the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition... Read More
  • January 08, 2019
    MERIDEN — Hearing concerns from local practitioners, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said supporters of the Affordable Care Act will need to fight to save the Obama administration policy. Murphy, D-Connecticut, talking with area professionals at Rushford Center this week, said Democratic lawmakers will need to push back against any Republican efforts... Read More
  • January 07, 2019
    HARTFORD, CT —Even though Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators have tried and failed in the past to pass legislation to strengthen federal background checks on gun owners they are giving it another shot this year and believe 2019 may finally be the year. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, surrounded by gun control advocates such... Read More
  • January 07, 2019
    Connecticut’s Democratic U.S. senators plan to re-introduce a universal background check bill this week that was first proposed six years ago as a response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Back then — to the dismay of family members of Sandy Hook victims who watched the vote from the Senate gallery — the background... Read More
  • January 07, 2019
    MIDDLETOWN — The state’s junior U.S. senator spent an hour Monday hearing from people working to develop innovative programs to end youth and young adult homelessness in Connecticut. Last month, Connecticut received $6.5 million in federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to pay for a new program... Read More
  • December 26, 2018
    (WTNH) - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy along with other officials will be sending a letter to President Trump on Wednesday requesting funding for the Long Island Sound Geographic Program. The members requested $20 million to fund improvements to water quality and restore habitat around the Sound watershed. "As you work to complete your final Fiscal... Read More
  • December 18, 2018
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut says that congressional Democrats plan to respond to a federal judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. Murphy said he believes the judge’s ruling will likely be overturned on appeal because Republicans were only able to muster the votes in Congress to get rid of the... Read More
  • December 14, 2018
    HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut is remembering the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, six years after it happened. Twenty-six students and staff at the school were killed when a gunman stormed into the building. Ceremonies were scheduled across the state to honor the victims. Gov. Dannel Malloy said flags, which are already a... Read More
  • December 14, 2018
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) - As an act of kindness to honor the Sandy Hook anniversary, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy delivered groceries to those in need Friday morning in New Haven. For 6 years, December 14th has been one of the darkest days on the calendar, but it got a little brighter for New Haven resident Denise Bryant. She is diabetic and has... Read More
  • December 13, 2018
    WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved a resolution co-sponsored by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., to cut-off U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s bloody civil war, a rebuke to President Donald Trump and his defense of the Saudi monarchy. “The momentum is on one side, and it’s only growing,” Murphy... Read More
  • December 12, 2018
    Washington – U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy inched closer to victory Wednesday in his longstanding campaign to end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen as the Senate took a historic vote to begin debate on a measure that would end that relationship. The Senate voted 60-30 vote to begin debate on Murphy’s Yemen resolution, the... Read More
  • December 11, 2018
    Seventy-five years after they signed up to fill a nursing shortage on the home front, legislation in Congress would recognize cadet nurses as veterans. More than 180,000 women, like Kathleen Kingsley, 91, of Norwich, and Elizabeth Yeznach, 92, of Gales Ferry, signed up to be part of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, a federal program established to... Read More
  • December 09, 2018 — by Jon Rosen
    (WTNH) - College kids are usually broke, just ask any Congressional intern living in D.C. For eons, those internships were unpaid. But earlier this year, Congress approved a budget that will allocate money to pay interns. Senator Chris Murphy helped make it happen. Back in July, he tweeted, "Decades before I was a senator,... Read More

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