WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), author of the Background Check Expansion Act, on Tuesday called on Congress to take immediate action to expand federal background checks. During a “Voices of Victims” speech on the Senate floor, Murphy emphasized that more than 90 percent of Americans support comprehensive... Read More about MURPHY DEMANDS CONGRESS ACT TO EXPAND BACKGROUND CHECKS

WASHINGTON – Seeking to cut higher education costs for middle-class families and make college more affordable for American students, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are leading the charge to help reduce student loan debt and protect students from the... Read More about MURPHY, SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO PROTECT STUDENT BORROWERS, HOLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ACCOUNTABLE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday led U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) in introducing a bill prohibiting President Trump from starting a preemptive war against North... Read More about NEW BILL: NO WAR IN NORTH KOREA WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement on Monday after questioning Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis during a hearing titled The Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Administration Perspective. Murphy has... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT AFTER AUMF HEARING WITH TILLERSON & MATTIS

HARTFORD – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Monday that CertaScan Technologies of Stamford is this month’s “Murphy’s Innovator of the Month.” Founded in 2014, CertaScan has created a modern scanning technology and patent pending system to scan the feet of newborn babies. Their new “gold... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS STAMFORD INNOVATOR, CERTASCAN TECHNOLOGIES, AS “MURPHY’S INNOVATOR OF THE MONTH”

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined 10 of their colleagues, led by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing alarm over the department’s decision to further delay implementation of a rule holding drug companies... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, COLLEAGUES URGE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD DRUG COMPANIES ACCOUNTABLE FOR OVERPRICING

WASHINGTON – To address a number of critical shortcomings in the U.S. approach to combating the opioid epidemic, including the Trump administration’s unwillingness to make a long-term investment in the fight, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.)... Read More about SENATORS UNVEIL LEGISLATION TO INVEST $45B TO ADDRESS OPIOID CRISIS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand that Congress give Puerto Rico and its residents the equal political and economic status they deserve. Murphy called out Congress and the Trump administration for systematically denying Puerto... Read More about MURPHY TO CONGRESS: “UNTIE THE HANDS OF THE PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE AND ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE FULL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL RIGHTS.”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health and Appropriations Committees, released a statement on Thursday after President Trump declared the nation’s opioid crisis a public health emergency. “It’s been clear for years that this tidal wave of addiction is a public health emergency,... Read More about MURPHY: OPIOID DECLARATION “A HOLLOW PROMISE”

WASHINGTON – Gun violence survivors and advocates are rallying around the Background Check Expansion Act. Murphy on Wednesday led 30 senators in introducing the bill, which would expand federal background checks to the sale or transfer of all firearms by private sellers, with certain reasonable exceptions. Research indicates that as many as a... Read More about ADVOCATES PRAISE THE BACKGROUND CHECK EXPANSION ACT

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) led 28 senators, including U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), on Wednesday in introducing the Background Check Expansion Act to expand federal background checks to the sale or transfer of all firearms by private sellers, with... Read More about SENATORS INTRODUCE BACKGROUND CHECK EXPANSION ACT TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the White House finalizes its emergency declaration on opioid abuse, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined their colleagues in calling on President Trump to follow the recommendations of his Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis and allow the government to... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL CALL ON PRESIDENT TO ALLOW GOVERNMENT TO NEGOTIATE LOWER PRICES FOR NALOXONE, A LIFE-SAVING OPIOID OVERDOSE REVERSAL DRUG

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, released a statement on Tuesday on U.S. Senate passage of a $36.5 billion disaster relief package that will help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild following devastation left by Hurricane Maria. The funding will also support ongoing relief... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON SENATE PASSAGE OF DISASTER RELIEF FOR PUERTO RICO

WASHINGTON, DC – With Connecticut communities still waiting to receive millions of dollars in federal community policing grants, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) and U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-1), Joe Courtney (CT-2), Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Jim Himes (CT-4), and Elizabeth Esty (CT-5) wrote Attorney... Read More about CONNECTICUT DELEGATION DEMANDS EXPLANATION FOR DELAYED PUBLIC SAFETY FUNDING

HARTFORD – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Monday that BML Tool & Manufacturing Corp. – a veteran and family-owned manufacturing company in Monroe – is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” BML was founded in 1968 out a two-car garage by business partners Philip Battaglia, Joeseph... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS MONROE MANUFACTURER, BML TOOL, AS “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON  – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 33 Senate and House Democrats, led by U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA) and Bob Casey (D-PA), in introducing the Protect Access to Birth Control Act, legislation to rescind a Trump Administration rule issued on October 6 that allows... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL INTRODUCE BICAMERAL LEGISLATION TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S ROLL BACK OF BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released a statement on Thursday after voting to block Senate Republicans’ FY 2018 budget. Their budget – which passed the Senate by a vote of 51-49 – would increase the deficit by $1.5 trillion, cut Medicare by $473 billion over 10 years, cut Medicaid by more than $1... Read More about MURPHY ON BUDGET: “PEOPLE IN CONNECTICUT SHOULD BE WORRIED.”

WASHINGTON – Before Amazon is set to choose the location of their recently announced $5 billion second North American headquarters, called “Amazon HQ2”, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-1), Joe Courtney (CT-2), Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Jim Himes... Read More about CONNECTICUT DELEGATION URGES AMAZON TO SELECT CONNECTICUT AS HOME FOR THEIR SECOND HEADQUARTERS

WASHINGTON – In the wake of Trump administration efforts to reorganize the U.S. State Department and egregiously cut funding for critical U.S. national security programs, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and U.S. Senate Appropriations Committees, introduced an amendment to the 2018 budget... Read More about MURPHY INTRODUCES BUDGET AMENDMENT TO PROHIBIT SIGNIFICANT REORGANIZATION OF STATE DEPARTMENT WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, introduced an amendment to the 2018 budget proposal to increase transparency and compliance of Buy American laws. In the last five years, U.S. federal agencies have spent $47.7 billion on goods manufactured by foreign firms. The... Read More about MURPHY INTRODUCES BUDGET AMENDMENT TO INCREASE BUY AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY