WASHINGTON – U.S Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, was awarded the Bob Savage Recovery Advocate of the Year Award by the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) on Monday. He was named the recipient at CCAR’s 2019 Legislative Day for his... Read More about MURPHY RECEIVES AWARD FOR HIS WORK ON MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was removed from office following months of... Read More about SENATORS MURPHY, COONS, GRAHAM, KAINE, ISAKSON, BOOKER ON THE REMOVAL OF SUDANESE PREISDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the need for the U.S. to invest more in the global race for 5G technology to catch up with China. Murphy noted that during his trip to Dublin, he learned that the Chinese embassy was... Read More about MURPHY PRESSES POMPEO ON U.S. LOSING GLOBAL INFLUENCE TO CHINA AND CONCERNS ABOUT BALLISTIC MISSILE PROLIFERATION

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the Senate’s most vocal critics of the U.S.-Saudi relationship, on Wednesday voted for retired Army General John Abizaid to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Murphy has criticized the Trump administration for... Read More about MURPHY VOTES FOR U.S. AMBASSADOR TO SAUDI ARABIA

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Tuesday questioned U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs hearing. Murphy questioned the Trump administration’s ability to negotiate a... Read More about MURPHY CHALLENGES POMPEO ON SAUDI ARABIA AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S COMPLIANCE WITH MAGNITSKY ACT

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that family- and woman-owned manufacturer Environics is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Housed in a 11,000 square foot facility in Tolland, Environics specializes in the manufacturing of gas flow management systems, primarily for air monitoring... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS TOLLAND MANUFACTURER, ENVIRONICS, AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Monday announced the introduction of the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act, legislation that would support small businesses by removing burdensome restrictions from individuals who want to invest in startups and help create jobs. U.S. Senators Brian Schatz... Read More about MURPHY, TOOMEY, BIPARTISAN COLLEAGUES ANNOUNCE HALOS ACT TO SUPPORT STARTUP JOBS, INNOVATION AND SMALL BUSINESSES

WASHINGTON – Ahead of this weekend’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) March Madness Final Four games, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, noted growing support for his report, Madness Inc.: How Everyone is Getting Rich Off College Sports... Read More about SUPPORT GROWS FOR MURPHY’S “MADNESS INC.” REPORT & CALL ON NCAA TO COMPENSATE STUDENT-ATHLETES

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Thursday pressed U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing about the department’s budget... Read More about MURPHY PRESSES SECRETARY AZAR ON BUDGET CUTS TO MEDICAID, HURTING PEOPLE FIGHTING OPIOID ADDICTION

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on Thursday after the U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed a resolution offered by Murphy, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) to end U.S. involvement in the... Read More about HOUSE SENDS MURPHY’S RESOLUTION TO END U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN SAUDI-LED WAR IN YEMEN TO THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies hearing about the department’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2020, which completely... Read More about MURPHY PRESSES SECRETARY CARSON ON PROPOSAL TO ELIMINATE PROGRAM THAT HELPS CONNECTICUT HOMEOWNERS HURT BY CRUMBLING FOUNDATIONS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, released the following statement after Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), addressed a Joint Meeting of... Read More about FOLLOWING NATO SECRETARY GENERAL SPEECH TO CONGRESS, MURPHY CALLS FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS NEW THREATS FROM RUSSIA

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned Mr. Ian Brzezinski, Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and Dr. Karen Donfried, President of the German National Fund of the United States, at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing marking the 70thanniversary of the North Atlantic... Read More about DURING HEARING MARKING THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF NATO, MURPHY PRESSES ON WAYS TO EXPAND NATO CONTRIBUTIONS BEYOND MILITARY OPTIONS

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in calling on the Senate Armed Services Committee to include in the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act portions of the... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, COLLEAGUES: INCLUDE LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES IN PRIVATIZED HOUSING IN DEFENSE BILL

WASHINGTON – After the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would no longer defend the Affordable Care Act in court and argued that the courts should strike down the entire law, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Tuesday joined U.S. Senator Chuck... Read More about MURPHY: IF YOU END THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT WITH NO REPLACEMENT, IT IS A HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE FOR THIS COUNTRY

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced family-owned manufacturer Sonics & Materials, Inc. in Newtown is this week's "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer." Sonics specializes in the manufacturing of ultrasonic liquid processing and ultrasonic plastics assembly equipment, which includes welding, cutting and sealing systems, and... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS NEWTOWN MANUFACTURER, SONICS & MATERIALS, INC., AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and a group of colleagues in sending a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar, demanding answers to ensure the accuracy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)... Read More about MURPHY & BLUMENTHAL JOIN COLLEAGUES TO PRESSURE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO VERIFY CDC’S FIREARM INJURY DATA ACCURACY

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenhtal (D-Conn.) joined a bipartisan letter led by U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Agricultural Committee, and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) urging U.S. Secretary of Agricultural Sonny Perdue to prioritize the implementation of the dairy... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, SENATORS URGE IMPLEMENTATION OF FARM BILL DAIRY IMPROVEMENTS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Committee, along with U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in introducing bipartisan... Read More about MURPHY, BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS INTRODUCE LEGISLATION IN RECOGNITION OF NATO 70TH ANNIVERSARY

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday questioned U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the administration’s FY 2020 budget request for the Department of Education, which calls for $7.1 billion in cuts.... Read More about MURPHY QUESTIONS DEVOS ON FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT RULE FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR AND STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES DESPITE COURT ORDER