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  • May 25, 2023 — by Jovana Gec
    BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A U.S. senator on Thursday said he hopes Serbia would adopt Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, telling the Balkan country that “there is no future” in an alliance with Moscow. “Russia’s invasion has been an absolute disaster and my belief is that Russia is ultimately... Read More
  • May 23, 2023 — by Eva Zymaris
    WASHINGTON (WTNH) — New legislation hopes to hold the gun industry accountable by studying what’s being called unfair and deceptive marketing. “These kinds of ads that target young people ought to be stopped,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said. Blumenthal and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) have introduced the... Read More
  • May 23, 2023 — by Molly Ingram
    U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would hold gun manufacturers accountable for dangerous marketing. According to Blumenthal, the companies are glorifying weapons of mass destruction to teenage boys. “All these companies that sell military style assault weapons appeal to that sense of... Read More
  • May 22, 2023 — by Fatos Bytyci
    PRISTINA, May 22 (Reuters) - Kosovo must implement a Western-brokered peace deal with Serbia if it wants to achieve its goal of joining the NATO military alliance, two U.S. senators visiting Pristina said on Monday. U.S. Democratic senators Chris Murphy, a member of the foreign relations committee, and Gary Peters, who sits on the armed services... Read More
  • May 18, 2023 — by Alex Putterman, Emilie Munson, and Staff writers
    A group of national lawmakers, led by Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, have reintroduced a proposal that would block schools nationally from secluding students in locked rooms or using certain types of physical restraints, Murphy announced Thursday. Though the bill, called the Keeping All Students Safe Act, faces long odds in a divided Congress, it... Read More
  • May 14, 2023 — by Summer Concepcion
    As a crucial June debt limit deadline looms without a deal in sight between the White House and congressional leaders, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Sunday opposed the idea of President Joe Biden’s using the 14th Amendment to unilaterally avert a debt default. In an interview on “Meet the Press,” NBC News' Chuck Todd... Read More
  • May 12, 2023 — by Jay Kenney and Matt McFarland
    WOODBRIDGE, CT (WFSB) - For many young people, social media apps like TikTok and Instagram have been a big part of their daily lives. There’s a push to limit how social media is used and who can use it. Sen. Chris Murphy said he will be at Amity High School in Woodbridge Friday afternoon to sit down with parents and students. The plan is to... Read More
  • May 08, 2023 — by Ebong Udoma
    U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said increased federal and state spending on the clean up of Long Island Sound has helped restore commercial fishing and recreation in Connecticut. “Since I’ve been in the Senate we have quintupled the amount of funding that comes to Connecticut to clean up the sound,” Murphy said during a visit to... Read More
  • May 04, 2023 — by Alexander Soule
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy warned the secretary of the U.S. Army that Congress could limit funds for a Bell aircraft to replace the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter, after a history of cost overruns with the Bell V-22 Osprey which pioneered tilt-rotor technology that the new Bell aircraft duplicates. Stratford-based Sikorsky lost a... Read More
  • May 02, 2023 — by Lisa Hagen
    Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., proposed a nearly $1 billion budget on Tuesday seeking to prevent fentanyl from entering into the U.S. as states like Connecticut see the synthetic opioid playing a significant role in overdose deaths. Murphy, who is chairman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, released a five-part plan seeking to go... Read More
  • May 01, 2023 — by Paul Bass
    Can we talk? About how lonely and disconnected so many of us feel? Chris Murphy hopes so. Otherwise, he worries, we won’t be able to come together as a nation to tackle challenges ranging from mass shootings to opioid addiction to teen suicide and social-media bullying to political polarization. Murphy, one of... Read More
  • April 26, 2023 — by Kathryn Hauser
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The focus of a new bipartisan bill unveiled Wednesday is to protect kids from the dangers of social media. The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would set a minimum age of 13 to use social media apps like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok and require parental consent for 13- to 17-year-olds. U.S. Sen. Chris... Read More
  • April 25, 2023 — by Cat Murphy
    Twelve days after the Quinnipiac University men’s hockey team secured the first NCAA Division I national championship title in university history, Connecticut’s five representatives and two senators urged President Joe Biden to invite the Bobcats to the White House. “As proud members of the Connecticut delegation, we join the... Read More
  • April 19, 2023 — by John Moritz
    Connecticut's junior Senator, Chris Murphy, took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to raise alarm over a national “collective anxiety” that he said spilled over this month into a spate of high-profile and seemingly senseless shootings. Murphy’s comments came a day after police in Austin, Texas arrested a man who... Read More
  • April 19, 2023 — by Sareen Habeshian
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday gave an impassioned speech about a string of recent incidents in which people have been shot, and in some cases killed, for making small mistakes like turning into the wrong driveway or going up to the wrong car. Driving the news: "This week, this country is convulsed by a series of... Read More
  • April 19, 2023 — by Lisa Hagan
    Connecticut’s U.S. senators are seeking heightened scrutiny of Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed gifts and deals, raising concerns about the lack of ethical guidelines and transparency surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court. In the weeks since ProPublica’s report about Thomas accepting luxury gifts and trips from a GOP... Read More
  • April 17, 2023 — by Grace Segers
    U.S. senators hold one of the most influential positions in the country, with the power to shape policy and confirm nominations that may remake the judicial and executive branches. But that authority only goes so far. Not every issue can be easily solved through legislative means, and some challenges are so nebulous that they must first be... Read More
  • April 14, 2023 — by Kurt Moffet
    WINSTED – Thanks to a federal grant, the town can start seriously thinking about building a new public works garage. Town Manager Joshua S. Kelly said the town will receive $2.53 million, or 55%, of the projected $4.6 million total cost, including planning and construction, for the garage. This is the "maximum allowable allocation from the... Read More
  • April 14, 2023 — by Michelle Warren
    WILLIMANTIC - Speaking during a town hall event at Eastern Connecticut State University Wednesday evening, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he met a woman in Naugatuck who was struggling with basic living expenses, despite earning more than minimum wage. He said the woman, who he met during his "Walk Across Connecticut," constantly had... Read More
  • April 08, 2023 — by John Moritz
    Late one Sunday evening in March, Connecticut's junior U.S. Senator, Chris Murphy, took to Twitter to raise the alarm over one of the Internet's most buzzed-about artificial intelligence programs, ChatGPT.  In a tweet that quickly became the subject of ridicule from the tech world, Murphy claimed that the... Read More

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