MIDDLEFIELD – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that Ramar-Hall, Inc. of Middlefield is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Ramar-Hall was founded in 1956 as a tool and die shop. In 1968, the company transitioned to a production machining source for the aerospace industry. Today, Ramar-Hall... Read More

HARTFORD – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Congressman Joe Courtney (D-2) announced today a $500,000 grant through the U.S. Economic Development Administration to establish a Quiet Corner Innovation Cluster. The QCIC would help small and medium sized technology and manufacturing... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), leader of the Senate Democrats’ #ACAWorks Campaign and member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement after Access Health CT announced that they enrolled 20,000 new individuals in affordable health coverage through the... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, applauded the inclusion of full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, including $5.3 million for the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge, in the President’s 2017 budget request. Over the last 50 years, the... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, just one day after the for-profit Marinello Beauty Schools chain announced its immediate closure, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called on the U.S. Senate to pass his Students Before Profits Act, legislation to protect students and taxpayers from deceptive practices and bad actors in the for-profit college sector. The... Read More

(Washington, DC) – Senate Democrats today released a new letter to President Obama urging a coordinated interagency response plan to address the spread of the Zika virus both at home and abroad. The letter, signed by all 46 Senate Democrats, calls for the President to take a number of new actions, including taking the Zika virus into... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, as the peak of flu season approaches, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), the Ranking Member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related... Read More

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, today vowed to push the U.S. Department of Education to expedite assistance for students of Marinello Schools of Beauty, a for-profit post-secondary school that announced its closure today. Marinello serves over 400... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a founder of the bipartisan U.S. Senate Caucus on Poland, released a statement welcoming reports of new negotiations between Poland and Lockheed Martin for the sale of up to 70 Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters. Murphy, the former Chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe,... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, just one day after Vice President Joe Biden convened the first meeting of the new White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) visited UConn Health – one of the largest Connecticut recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) medical research grants – to celebrate a $2... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) hailed Senate passage of his amendment to S.2012, Energy Policy Modernization Act. Murphy’s amendment to increase federal usage of recycled refrigerants in federally-owned buildings would greatly reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a super pollutant and significant... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) applauded final passage of the Coast Guard Authorization Act, a bill that ensures that the Coast Guard is able to support the construction and installation of exhibits and displays for the National Coast Guard Museum in New London, Connecticut. The bill will now head to President Barack... Read More

WASHINGTON – On Groundhog Day today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), leader of the Senate Democrats’ #ACAWorks Campaign and a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on Republicans’ plan to vote to override President Obama’s veto and strip health... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), along with U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), joined a letter led by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) to Richard Harshman, the President and CEO of Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI), urging him to work... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement after the VA Connecticut Healthcare System announced that they will restore free shuttle service between its West Haven Campus and the West Haven Train Station:  “I’m glad the Department of Veterans Affairs did the right thing and quickly... Read More

MANCHESTER – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that Paramount Machine Company Inc., a family-owned and operated manufacturer of precision machined parts and assemblies for the aerospace industry, is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Andrew Djiounas founded Paramount in Glastonbury... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, as UN-coordinated funding appeals for humanitarian aid in Syria fall billions of dollars short, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called on U.S. allies around the world to attend the upcoming “Supporting Syria and the Region” Conference on February 4, 2016, in London and to increase their donations to the... Read More

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) released the following statement regarding Facebook’s action to ban the private sale of firearms on both Facebook and Instagram.  Murphy and Blumenthal applauded Facebook last year after the company announced action to curb the... Read More

WASHINGTON— After hearing directly from concerned Connecticut fishermen about legislation that would remap the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in Long Island Sound, the Congressional Delegation has penned a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans of the House Committee on Natural Resources... Read More

Click here to view video WASHINGTON – In an address today to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) offered his assessment on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Murphy discussed the United States’ complicated relationship with Saudi Arabia and the need to revisit counterproductive and outdated tenets... Read More