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 about Murphy Announces Winners of 3rd Annual ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Day Essay Challenge’

(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 about Senator Chris Murphy shares letters, e-mails from those affected by government shutdown

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 about Blumenthal, Murphy, colleagues introduce assault weapons ban

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 about During stop in Meriden, Murphy tells advocates ‘precarious time for the ACA’

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 about Murphy, Blumenthal: Momentum Is On The Side of Gun Background Checks

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 about Connecticut senators again call for wider scope of background checks for gun buyers

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 about Murphy meets with agencies tackling teen homelessness in Middletown

(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 about U.S. Senator Chris Murphy and officials are requesting funding for a Long Island Sound program

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 about Sen. Murphy, Democrats To Challenge GOP On ACA Ruling

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 about State reflects on 6 years since Sandy Hook shooting

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 about Chris Murphy delivers for "Day of Caring" on Sandy Hook day of remembrance

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 about Murphy wins Senate vote to halt U.S. involvement in Saudi war on Yemen

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 about Murphy’s Yemen measure advances as lawmakers seek tougher sanctions on Saudi Arabia

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 about Murphy part of latest effort to recognize cadet nurses as veterans

(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 about Capitol Report: Murphy helps pass budget that allocates money for Congressional interns

WASHINGTON — Encouraged by mid-term election gains, gun safety advocates say there will be action in the next Congress to enact “sensible” gun safety legislation that has eluded them since the slaughter six years ago of 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. “We will get a bill passed... Read More about Gun Safety Advocates See Gains in Congress

Shabad Bharara was thrilled to land an internship in U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s Hartford office in the summer of 2017. He was less enthusiastic to receive no financial compensation for his work. “The experience was great,’’ said Bharara, who lives in Morris and is now a junior majoring in communication, legal... Read More about Connecticut delegation hails news that congressional interns will finally get paid

(CNN) – Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East. Over the last decade and a half in that critical but chaotic part of the world, the United States has repeatedly witnessed the limitations of using the blunt instrument of American military force to solve complicated political, social,... Read More about US is enabling war that has made Yemen a hell on earth for civilians

Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy is tussling with U.S. News and World Report over the publication’s popular college rankings, arguing that enrollment of low-income and minority students are not given enough weight. The magazine responded late Tuesday, saying it did not have the data to do what Murphy – and other Democratic senators... Read More about Murphy takes aim at U.S. News and World Report’s college rankings

In 1973, as President Richard M. Nixon escalated an unauthorized bombing campaign in Cambodia, Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) asked, “Does the President assert — as kings of old — that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?” Later that year, Congress answered... Read More about Congress takes critical step toward reasserting its war-powers control