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  • March 29, 2016 — by Christopher Fortier
    NEWINGTON — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy on Tuesday morning paid a visit to GKN Aerospace Engine Systems and in a Town Hall-style meeting heard from employees their perspective on the state of manufacturing.Murphy toured the Louis Street facility and subsequently hosted a forum with GKN Aerospace New England General Manager Martin Thorden and 130... Read More
  • March 28, 2016 — by Alex Ceneviva
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)– Connecticut’s junior senator spent a day in the life of the state’s opioid and heroin crisis. Senator Chris Murphy met with experts, police, and people dealing with addiction in five different cities. Five hours, five different cities, five different groups of people. Senator Murphy’s first stop was... Read More
  • March 28, 2016 — by Russell Blair
    HARTFORD — Connecticut's two U.S. senators want to make it easier for students of for-profit colleges that close amid fraud allegations to get rid of outstanding student loans. Marinello Schools of Beauty abruptly closed its seven locations in Connecticut last month after the federal Department of Education said the school was mishandling... Read More
  • March 28, 2016 — by Esteban Hernandez
    NEW HAVEN >> Trish came prepared for Monday. She’s been preparing for years, really, starting with a battle pitting her against a heroin addiction that nearly left her without a family. Trish, 38, is from New London and said she came from a middle-class family. She was 15 the first time she used heroin. It led to a span of more than 15... Read More
  • March 28, 2016 — by Judy Benson and Lindsay Boyle
    Groton Town Police and other local law enforcement leaders are hopeful after a Monday morning visit from U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy that the region soon will see more federal dollars to fight the heroin epidemic. Murphy, who met with law enforcement and other members of the Regional Community Enhancement Task Force at the Groton Town Police... Read More
  • March 28, 2016 — by Alan Appel
    After a life on the streets and jail due to seven years of heroin addiction, Trish got clean, but only with the help of social workers and a unique program addressing the needs of addicted pregnant or parenting mothers. She was exactly the kind of person U.S. Senator Chris Murphy wanted to hear from. Murphy heard Trish’s story Monday... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Adam benson
    NORWICH — After a day full of engagements throughout Connecticut Thursday, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy’s brief Norwich stop was tightly planned. But after Murphy met city resident Kelly Patterson aboard a Southeast Area Transit District bus and learned of problems her children were experiencing in school, the Democrat rode past his stop to... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Deborah Straszheim
    Groton — School-based health centers might do a good job helping the children who walk in needing mental health services, but that’s not a “system" of care and Connecticut needs one, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday. Murphy toured the student health center at Robert E. Fitch High School in Groton after meeting with a small... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Anna Bisaro
    NEW HAVEN >> The biggest challenge to reducing the high nitrogen levels in Long Island Sound: A one-size solution does not fit all. This was the conclusion environmental advocates, Sound School students and teachers, and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., came to at a roundtable discussion Thursday. “I’d like to leave here a little... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Meredith Guinness
    FAIRFIELD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy spoke with Fairfield senior citizens Tuesday about his proposal for a Social Security Caregiver Credit Act, a move he believes represents a “paradigm shift” in the way Americans define work. The act would provide modest retirement compensation to those who have left the workforce or... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Michael Puffer
    WATERBURY — In a broken and pitted parking lot next to a huge crumbling factory, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy announced Wednesday a push to resurrect two federal tax breaks for redevelopment of polluted properties. The former Anaconda Brass site is one of several along Freight Street that is being targeted for redevelopment with millions of dollars... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Sen. Chris Murphy
    Every single day, millions of tiny plastic beads flow into the Long Island Sound. The origin? Our toothpaste and face wash. But that’s about to change. Our daily personal care routine is causing millions of plastic beads—called microbeads—to wreak havoc on our environment. Too small to be caught by filters at water treatment... Read More
  • March 24, 2016 — by Bryan Lipiner
    MERIDEN — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took to a CT Transit bus this week to discuss local and national issues with city commuters. Murphy has been speaking with bus commuters since taking office in the U.S. Senate in January 2013. “I try to do it as much as I can; it’s my version of a town hall (meeting),” he said. Murphy hears... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Ethan Fry
    Healey Ford. Seymour Lumber. Derby Cellular Products. The lower Naugatuck Valley is dotted with contaminated “brownfield” properties where environmental issues related to their previous uses have thrown question marks over redevelopment plans, caused hiccups to demolition, or stalled projects altogether. On Wednesday U.S. Senator Chris... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Jason Newton
    WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — A section of Waterbury was once the hub for the brass industry in America, but now just abandoned buildings remain at the former American Brass Company site. Here it’s sat for five decades; abandoned, blighted and contaminated relics of Waterbury’s mighty industrial past. Now the buildings are just taking... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Jordain Carney
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday hit back at "campaign rhetoric" over the Brussels terrorist attacks, suggesting Congress should instead reform the Visa Waiver Program. "Campaign rhetoric and empty tough talk isn't going to protect anyone. The best way we can prevent ISIS from launching a successful attack here is to address the real... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Frank MacEachern
    STAMFORD, Conn. -- A member of the Rotary Club of Stamford shared his story of enduring abuse as a child and a teenager and overcoming his desire to commit suicide with U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, who had come to the city to tout his mental health legislation. Ric Meyer told Murphy that his suicide plan was discovered, and he was able to get the mental... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Genevieve Reilly
    FAIRFIELD — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy chose the town’s Bigelow Center for Senior Activities to discuss a new bill he has proposed that would provide unpaid caregivers with Social Security credits. The Social Security Caregiver Credit Act would allow people who leave the workforce, or cut back to part-time hours, to provide care for a... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Daniela Altimari
    Murphy is proposing an end to visa-free travel to the U.S. if European nations are not more forthcoming with information about counterterrorism investigations. HARTFORD — U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy reiterated his call for new restrictions on a visa waiver program that allows Europeans to travel freely to the United States. "This is a moment for... Read More
  • March 23, 2016 — by Diane Orson
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy said Tuesday’s deadly attacks in Brussels underscore the need for European leaders to take a hard look at whether their law enforcement and anti-terrorism operations can meet the true threat on the continent. Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on our European allies to step up its... Read More

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