U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, called on Senate leaders on Monday to immediately work with Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Roselló to formulate and pass an emergency bill to rebuild Puerto Rico and restore stability to the island in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The hurricanes... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., doesn’t give up easily, particularly when it comes to changing federal rules regarding the government buying products from American companies. Murphy has been seeking to close loopholes in “Buy American” laws since 2009, when he was U.S. representative for Connecticut’s congressional 5th... Read More

U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are teaming with five of their Democratic colleagues in reintroducing the Students Before Profits Act, a bill designed to protect students who attended for-profit colleges from predatory lending and deceptive marketing practices. Currently, for-profit colleges enroll 10 percent of all postsecondary... Read More

With the Republican health care bill apparently dead, congressional Democrats are brainstorming their own ideas for how to transform the health insurance system in case they take back power. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has captivated the base with a cry for Medicare-for-all, but other Senate Democrats worry his proposal — which envisions a... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, released a statement on Sept. 7 after the Appropriations Committee restored $400 million in funding for the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) – the only federal community service and work-based job training program for low-income or unemployed older... Read More

As one of the youngest members of the U.S. Senate, Chris Murphy’s message resonated with a group of students, faculty and administrators at a roundtable discussion Friday on the cost of college at Southern Connecticut State University. “I might be the only member of the Senate that is still paying back student loans,” Murphy, who... Read More

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement following Chief Medical Examiner Dr. James Gill’s announcement that there have been 539 accidental drug overdose deaths in Connecticut over the first half of the year. The figures include 322... Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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