WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and a group of Democratic senators in introducing The American... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Senate Democrats To Introduce The American Homeownership Act To Stop Wall Street's Housing Grab And Get Homes Back Into The Hands Of Families

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and 18 of their Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump’s... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Democratic Senate Colleagues In Demanding Independent Probe Of Funds Used By ICE, CBP To Carry Out Trump's Cruel Immigration Enforcement

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand reforms to the Department of Homeland Security. He shared horrifying stories of the Department of Homeland Security’s abuses under the Trump administration: from teargassing schools, to murdering American citizens with impunity, and... Read More about Murphy On DHS Funding Fight: We Are Demanding That ICE Follow The Law

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, during her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Murphy confronted Dr. Means over allegations she exploited the trust... Read More about Murphy To Surgeon General Nominee: You Lied To The Public About Financial Conflicts Of Interest

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday announced he has invited Fereshteh Ganjavi as his guest for the People’s State of the Union, a rally on the National Mall counterprogramming President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. A refugee from Afghanistan, Ganjavi is the Founder and Executive Director of Elena’s Light, a... Read More about Murphy Announces People's State of the Union Guest, Fereshteh Ganjavi, Afghan Refugee And CT Nonprofit Founder

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday took part in a panel at the Munich Security Conference: “Outsmarting Ourselves? Risks and Rewards of the AI Race.” Murphy spoke alongside academics, European officials, and a Google executive to assess the emerging, and quickly evolving, risks AI poses to our economy, politics, and sense of... Read More about Murphy In Munich On AI: We Need Regulation And International Cooperation To Prevent Economic And Cultural Collapse

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a group of Northeast Corridor Democrats in sending a letter to Senate Commerce and Appropriations Committee leadership, urging them to include advance appropriations for Amtrak and passenger rail programs in the next surface transportation reauthorization... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Northeast Corridor Democrats to Call For Advance Amtrak Appropriations

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined their Democratic Senate colleagues in demanding that U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reverse her directive to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti. The policy took effect February 3, 2026, though it was temporarily... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Call on Secretary Noem to Reverse Termination of TPS for Haiti

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security, questioned Jeremy Carl, nominee to be the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, about his white identitarian worldview and writings. Murphy demanded that Carl explain his longheld... Read More about Murphy Grills Unqualified Trump Nominee On His White Nationalist Views

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate today to call on his Republican colleagues to recognize Donald Trump’s unprecedented, attempted indictment of six Democratic lawmakers as a grave threat to our democracy and unite with Democrats to put a stop to Trump’s relentless assault on free speech. Murphy... Read More about Murphy to Republicans On Trump's Attempts to Jail Democratic Lawmakers: We Can't Let This Democracy Die On Our Watch

WASHINGTON–In response to the Trump administration banning local libraries as passport acceptance facilities, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined their colleagues in a bipartisan and bicameral letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the secretary to extend the existing program while Congress works to... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Bicameral Colleagues Urge Extension Of Library Passport Acceptance Program

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand accountability following new reporting that a firm controlled by the U.A.E.’s National Security Advisor secretly purchased a 49% stake in the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. The deal steered millions of dollars to Trump and his... Read More about Murphy on Trump's Secret Deal with the UAE: The White House is a Non-Stop Corruption Machine

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Sunday appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream. As Americans decisively turn against the Trump administration’s lawless immigration enforcement operations, Murphy made the case for why Republicans and Democrats must... Read More about Murphy On Fox News: The Country Is Less Safe Because Of ICE

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn) joined a group of 23 Senators in filing an amicus brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals urging the Court to uphold the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which sets critical minimum standards for children in immigration detention and continues to be the single most effective protection for detained... Read More about Murphy Joins Amicus Brief Urging Circuit Court to Affirm the Critical Protections of Minors in Immigration Detention

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to lay out why Democrats and Republicans must act now to rein in an out-of-control Department of Homeland Security engaging in daily, systematic violations of the law, that... Read More about Murphy Floor Speech On DHS Funding Fight: The American People Demand Action

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Trump administration’s military operation in Venezuela and plans to control the country going forward. Murphy grilled Rubio on the lack of progress towards a democratic... Read More about Murphy to Rubio: Venezuela Is Not On The Path To Democracy

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Friday published a Substack post detailing the horrors he observed while visiting the San Antonio immigration court, and calling on his congressional colleagues to take decisive action to end ICE’s lawless abuse and... Read More about Murphy on Substack: My Trip To Texas Confirmed We Can't Fund This Version Of ICE

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday joined CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash to react to the brutal killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. Appearing on the program directly after Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, Murphy blasted the Trump administration’s shameless attempts to justify the... Read More about Murphy On SOTU: We Can't Vote To Fund This Lawless DHS

SAN ANTONIO, TX—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, this week traveled to San Antonio, Texas, to conduct oversight of the facilities DHS is using to detain individuals and families targeted by the Trump administration’s lawless enforcement operations. Despite... Read More about Senator Murphy Denied Access To DHS Detention Facilities In Texas, Witnesses ICE Lawlessness At Immigration Court, Meets With Detainee Children And Their Families

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced legislation to better support commercial fishermen as they respond to shifting fish populations due to climate change. The Supporting Healthy Interstate Fisheries in Transition (SHIFT) Act would require that the U.S. Department... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Warren Introduce Legislation To Bolster Fishermen In Response To Climate Change