WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday applauded the historic passage of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. Murphy introduced the Senate counterpart bill, the Background Checks Expansion Act. 97% of Americans support universal background checks. The House also passed the Enhanced... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON HISTORIC HOUSE PASSAGE OF UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), along with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and four of his colleagues on the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) to once again request that the committee hold hearings to assess the challenges... Read More about MURPHY, COLLEAGUES CONTINUE CALL FOR HELP COMMITTEE HEARINGS ON HURRICANES’ IMPACT ON PUERTO RICO & U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement as his Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Act heads to the president’s desk to be signed into law. U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill on Wednesday, following its passage in the U.S. Senate... Read More about MURPHY’S BILL DESIGNATING FARMINGTON RIVER & SALMON BROOK AS “WILD & SCENIC” TO BECOME LAW

WASHINGTON – After the U.S. House of Representatives voted 245–182 to pass a resolution to terminate President Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern border, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, called on Senate Republicans to join Senate Democrats in voting for the... Read More about FOLLOWING HOUSE PASSAGE, MURPHY CALLS ON SENATE TO VOTE TO END TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION

WASHINGTON – Ahead of the nuclear summit with North Korea, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, outlined a series of proposals to reduce the threat North Korea poses and make genuine progress towards rolling back its nuclear weapons program. Murphy released the following statement:  “Last... Read More about AHEAD OF NORTH KOREA SUMMIT, MURPHY OUTLINES NATIONAL SECURITY GOALS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment ASML is this week's "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer." Founded in 1984, ASML sells its hardware and software solutions to all the world’s leading chipmakers. ASML has a design engineering and manufacturing... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS WILTON MANUFACTURER, ASML, AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, applauded the passage of critical investments to protect Connecticut’s natural resources and improve the health of Long Island Sound. The funding was included in the bipartisan agreement to prevent another government shutdown and fund... Read More about MURPHY TOUTS CRITICAL INVESTMENTS TO IMPROVE LONG ISLAND SOUND

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) today demanded answers from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on its commitment to enforcing “Made in the USA” labeling standards. In October, the senators wrote to the FTC and referenced instances where companies... Read More about MURPHY, BROWN, BALDWIN DEMAND ANSWERS FROM THE FTC ON WEAK ENFORCEMENT OF “MADE IN USA” LABELING STANDARDS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, applauded the passage of the FY2019 Department of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies bill, which includes critical investments to improve Connecticut’s transportation infrastructure. Murphy advocated... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS FUNDING FOR CRITICAL INVESTMENTS IN CONNECTICUT’S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cosponsored legislation led by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (NJ-9) to repeal the federal cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions imposed by the American Jobs and Tax Cut Act in 2017, which has led to the... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL COSPONSOR BILL TO REPEAL TRUMP TAX ATTACK ON MIDDLE CLASS FAMILIES

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced the Plum Island Conservation Act to protect the environmental integrity of Plum Island.  The bill would permanently repeal an outdated and misguided law requiring the General Service... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND INTRODUCE THE PLUM ISLAND CONSERVATION ACT

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) cosponsored legislation led by U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) called the State Public Option Act. The legislation would allow states to create a Medicaid-based public... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL COSPONSOR LEGISLATION TO CREATE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE OPTIONS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement shortly after President Trump signed the bipartisan funding bill Murphy voted for to avoid another government shutdown and fund nine federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security... Read More about MURPHY VOTES TO AVOID ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, OPPOSES NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR SOUTHERN BORDER WALL

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a letter led by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and all Democratic members of the... Read More about MURPHY, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS REQUEST BRIEFING ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE TO MAKE DETERMINATION ABOUT SAUDIS’ ROLE IN KHASHOGGI MURDER

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting by delivering one of his “Voices of Victims” speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Murphy told the stories of the students and educators whose lives we lost in last year’s mass shooting, in addition to... Read More about MURPHY HONORS PARKLAND SHOOTING VICTIMS IN HIS “VOICES OF VICTIMS” SPEECH

WASHINGTON – On the one-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which claimed the lives of 17 students and educators, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday released the following statement: “One year ago today we watched the unthinkable happen – again – as... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PARKLAND SHOOTING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a leading advocate for reforming our nation’s gun laws and author of the Senate background checks bill, on Wednesday applauded the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for passing the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. The committee is also expected to pass the Enhanced Background Checks Act, a... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSAGE OF BIPARTISAN BACKGROUND CHECKS BILLS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative John Larson (CT-1) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Wednesday that they are considering terminating the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Contract with the... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, LARSON STATEMENT FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT OF HUD TERMINATION OF CONTRACT WITH DECREPIT HARTFORD APARTMENT COMPLEX BARBOUR GARDENS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed a resolution to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen pursuant to the War Powers Act. The Senate plans to vote on the... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS HISTORIC HOUSE VOTE ON WAR POWERS ACT TO END U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WAR IN YEMEN

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined legislation led by Ranking Member U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and colleagues U.S. Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) yesterday in introducing... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE BILL TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMIN PUSH TO ALLOW UNFETTERED PROLIFERATION OF UNTRACEABLE, 3D PRINTABLE GUNS, WEAKEN CONTROLS OVER FOREIGN ARMS SALES