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  • January 05, 2018
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., launched his second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Essay Contest this week. He encourages students from all grade levels in Connecticut to submit essays that reflect on King’s dream and what he would think about it today, as well as their own aspirations and how they relate to King’s work. Essays... Read More
  • January 04, 2018
    Returning from a visit to view the recovery effort in Puerto Rico, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday that the “island is still in crisis” more than 100 days after Hurricane Maria made landfall.  Lingering power outages and a lack of drinking water are compounded by what Murphy, D-Connecticut, described as a lack of urgency from... Read More
  • January 03, 2018
    Connecticut U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy say the $81 billion in disaster relief funds being considered for Florida, Texas, California, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is not enough. Blumenthal says Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands alone need double that amount.    Speaking on the phone from Puerto Rico... Read More
  • January 02, 2018
    Half a day after he arrived in Puerto Rico alongside Sen. Chris Murphy to survey the island’s recovery from Hurricane Maria, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said it was clear a lot of work remains to be done. “The simple blunt fact is that there is a continuing humanitarian and economic crisis here,” Blumenthal... Read More
  • January 01, 2018
    Frustrated by what they say is a woefully inadequate federal response, Sen. Chris Murphy and Sen. Richard Blumenthal plan to tour storm damage in Puerto Rico on Tuesday and Wednesday. They are scheduled to tour the hurricane-battered town of Las Piedras, meet with Gov. Ricardo Rossello and visit Hospital UPR to hear about the obstacles it faces as... Read More
  • December 29, 2017
    Sen. Chris Murphy is calling for congressional hearings to learn how the public health and education infrastructure in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands is faring more than three months after the region was slammed by Hurricane Maria. “Hearings could help ensure that the Senate has a detailed... Read More
  • December 19, 2017
    HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)–Senator Chris Murphy is urging Congress to take action on protections for ‘dreamers.’ Those are the approximately 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. when they were young, and are either in school or in the military. “Christmas and the holiday season, it’s not... Read More
  • December 19, 2017
    HARTFORD (AP) — The state has started notifying thousands of Connecticut families that it might have to close a popular health insurance program for children if the U.S. Congress doesn't reauthorize federal funding. The Department of Social Services began sending notices to parents and guardians last weekend, letting them know that funds for... Read More
  • December 15, 2017
    U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal visited Access Health CT on Main Street Friday to remind people that the deadline for securing health insurance through the exchange is on Dec. 22. “The more we can raise awareness about the deadline, the better,” Blumenthal said. “Make it your New Year’s resolution to enroll,... Read More
  • December 14, 2017
    Connecticut Democrats slammed the Federal Communications Commission’s decision Thursday to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat all websites and content equally. Some states have already said they plan to sue the federal government over the regulatory rollback — which... Read More
  • December 14, 2017
    I love Newtown. I love the people. I love the landscape. I love the annual Labor Day parade. I love it more now, having watched the town wrestle over the unanswerable question of what to be in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. Newtown is different than it was before the events of Dec. 14, 2012. Of course it is. No place could ever recover from... Read More
  • December 14, 2017
    When you walk into Sen. Chris Murphy's Senate office, one of the first things you might see is a large poster of children's TV host Mr. Rogers with a quote on it. "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping,' " Rogers wrote. The quote was... Read More
  • December 11, 2017
    WASHINGTON-The 21st Century Buy American Act introduced on Monday by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., could create up to 100,000 jobs while prioritizing the purchase of American-made goods. “It’s pretty simple. Americans want their taxpayer money spent here and in support of U.S. manufacturers, not their foreign competitors,”... Read More
  • December 10, 2017
    NORWALK, Conn. — Want to know more about the recently passed Republican tax bill? U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will hold a town hall meeting to discuss the topic on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. at Norwalk High School, 55 County St., Norwalk. Murphy voted against the bill, saying in a statement that the GOP plan “will be a disaster for... Read More
  • December 09, 2017
    STAMFORD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is reminding residents that time is running out to enroll in health care plans offered under the Affordable Care Act. Murhpy (D-Conn.) has been vocal about the need to protect and defend the Affordable Care Act, and is spreading the word in Fairfield County that the ACA is still the law of the land. He... Read More
  • December 06, 2017
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., says he wants the Trump administration to enforce federal law that requires health insurance companies to provide equal coverage for mental illness. Murphy was speaking at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington on Tuesday. Murphy, a Democratic member of the Senate Appropriations... Read More
  • December 05, 2017
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a representative for U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, state Sen. Mae Flexer, and state Reps. Anne Dauphinais, Danny Rovero, and Patrick Boyd, and town officials from Killingly, Plainfield, and Thompson took a bus tour compliments of the Northeastern Connecticut Transit District, on Nov. 21. The short tour and presentation highlighted... Read More
  • December 03, 2017
    Reaction to passage in the Senate of the Republicans’ tax agenda has been swift in Connecticut. Both Connecticut senators, along with all of their Democratic colleagues, opposed the bill, which was passed at 2:00 am Saturday morning, with no hearings.  Senator Chris Murphy, in a statement, called the legislation “a disaster for... Read More
  • November 29, 2017
    If a solider is injured in war fighting for the United States, our country’s commitment to help them recover from an injury should be absolute. One percent of Americans fight to protect the rest of us, and when we leave them out in the cold, without proper care for their battle wounds, we abandon the sacred commitment we made to them when... Read More
  • November 26, 2017
    Sen. Chris Murphy called it a rare “bright spot” in the darkness of the highly partisan politics that have come to define Washington in recent years. That bright spot is a piece of legislation, jointly sponsored by Democrats and Republicans, that would stiffen rules to keep guns out of the hands of certifiably dangerous people. The... Read More

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