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  • August 27, 2017
    If there was any doubt about the value of Long Island Sound to the people of Connecticut, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy spelled it out during a visit to Greenwich Point Park on a perfect beach day. "People want to spend time by the water — it is why people come to Connecticut," Murphy said Thursday in the Bruce Museum Seaside Center, a rustic... Read More
  • August 26, 2017 — by Barry Lytton
    DANBURY — Sen. Chris Murphy visited a local Veterans of Foreign Wars post Friday to tout reforms and tell veterans of a bill he introduced this spring that would provide mental health care to those with other-than-honorable discharges. At the post, he received thanks for his efforts and requests for more help from some 50 veterans and... Read More
  • August 25, 2017
    Sen. Chris Murphy told manufacturers Friday he’s forging an unlikely alliance with President Trump to boost U.S. manufacturing by trying to close loopholes allowing federal agencies to buy goods made outside the United States. Murphy met with a group of manufacturers, business representatives and others in Waterbury to... Read More
  • August 25, 2017 — by Stephen Singer
    Sen. Chris Murphy told manufacturers Friday he’s forging an unlikely alliance with President Trump to boost U.S. manufacturing by trying to close loopholes allowing federal agencies to buy goods made outside the United States. Murphy met with a group of manufacturers, business representatives and others in Waterbury to... Read More
  • August 25, 2017 — by Rob Ryser
    DANBURY — Danny Hayes knows getting treatment for his combat trauma got his life back on track. Hayes knows the consequences of not getting treatment for combat trauma. “A gentleman I was trying to help ended his life,” Hayes said of a Vietnam combat veteran who had sought trauma treatment but was turned away by the Veterans... Read More
  • August 25, 2017 — by Alec Johnson
    WATERBURY – Sen. Christopher S. Murphy on Friday doubled down on his efforts to force the Department of Defense to buy American manufactured goods. It’s an effort Murphy has been championing since he first represented the 5th Congressional District, home to Waterbury and much of Litchfield County, where manufacturing has waned in the... Read More
  • August 24, 2017 — by Ken Borsuk
    GREENWICH — Advocates and supporters of a healthy Long Island Sound gathered near the beach in Greenwich Thursday to plead for a waterway they fear is at risk under President Donald Trump’s administration. Nearly 50 people, including local politicians from lower Fairfield County and environmental experts, met with U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy... Read More
  • August 24, 2017 — by Esteban Hernandez
    NEW HAVEN >> Police officers who visit homes with children exposed to traumatic situations such as domestic violence can face an uncomfortable reality. It’s something Police Chief Anthony Campbell spoke about Wednesday during a forum focused on how local providers can assist children who experience trauma and post-traumatic stress... Read More
  • August 23, 2017 — by Roger Susanin
    TOLLAND, CT (WFSB) - Wednesday's proposed budget by the House Democrats has also provided hope to a group of people who are losing their homes one day at a time.   The proposal includes a program to help victims of Connecticut’s crumbling concrete epidemic. On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy... Read More
  • August 21, 2017 — by Brian Zahn
    NEW HAVEN >> Representatives of Connecticut’s federal delegation say they don’t know where the Trump administration is going to land on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program protecting undocumented children brought to the U.S., but they gathered in Fair Haven Friday to promise their unwavering support. “We know... Read More
  • August 17, 2017 — by Russell Blair
    On tired legs, Sen. Chris Murphy walked up Memorial Drive in Danbury Thursday afternoon to a crowd of about 100 supporters who showed up to see him complete his walk across Connecticut. Beginning Sunday morning in Killingly, Murphy traveled on foot 108 miles through 22 towns, holding four town halls and chatting with anyone he came upon,... Read More
  • August 17, 2017 — by Neil Vigdor
    NEWTOWN — There was no shoulder — just inches separating speeding traffic from this drifter with a five o’clock shadow and a blister on his right foot. But this was no vagabond. Not Forrest Gump, either. This was Chris Murphy, chugging along on the side of road in a place where the landmarks are seared into the... Read More
  • August 14, 2017 — by Dan Haar
    It was a long way between people for Sen. Chris Murphy in the eastern stretches of the state on Sunday. When he did run into someone on his walk across Connecticut, local issues — school enrollment, farm preservation and of course, property taxes — tended to come up first. But this is no ordinary summer weekend for the nation.... Read More
  • August 11, 2017 — by Sen. Chris Murphy
    The foreign policy that President Trump previewed as a candidate – lots of rhetorical bluster with no actual policy ideas behind it – has metastasized as advertised during the first six months of his administration. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Trump’s approach to the growing nuclear weapons capability of Kim Jong... Read More
  • August 10, 2017 — by Charlotte Weber
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is proposing a bill he says will help families receive more Social Security benefits when a loved one dies. The bill was prompted by a constituent from Murphy’s home town of Cheshire. Ray Squire, a Korean War veteran, called Murphy’s office when he found something strange in Social Security’s... Read More
  • August 01, 2017 — by Matt Austin
    Members of the state’s congressional delegation asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to rethink the order requiring Joel Colindres of New Fairfield to leave the country by August 17.  “Unbelievable people out there doing this for us,” Joel Colindres of New Fairfield, said. Senators Richard Blumenthal and... Read More
  • July 28, 2017 — by Russell Blair
    HARTFORD — With the dramatic failure in the Senate early Friday to pass legislation to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, Connecticut Democrats expressed hope that after this latest setback Congressional Republicans would heed their calls for a bipartisan health care fix. “People in Connecticut tell... Read More
  • July 28, 2017 — by Cayla Harris
    WASHINGTON >>   U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy had been preparing for a long night of presenting amendments to the Republican “skinny repeal” of Obamacare, but it didn’t come to that. It was a surprise “no” vote from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just before 2 a.m. Friday that killed the legislation, 51-49, and forced... Read More
  • July 28, 2017 — by Rob Polansky
    WASHINGTON (WFSB) - An effort to help homeowners with crumbling foundations was passed by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal said they wrote the measure, which urges the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish regulations for specific minerals that go into the concrete. The... Read More
  • July 28, 2017 — by Max Reiss
    Hundreds of thousands of people in the state have healthcare because of the Affordable Care Act with those signups occurring through either the marketplace Access Health Connecticut, or through the expansion of Medicaid. More than 104,000 people are covered through plans purchased through the marketplace, and another 208,000 receive care through... Read More

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