WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday sent a letter to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker on his first day on the job. Murphy laid out the NCAA’s long track record of fighting against positive change in... Read More about Murphy To New NCAA President On First Day: Buck The NCAA's Long History Of Fighting Positive Change And Partner With Lawmakers To Center The Rights And Well-Being Of College Athletes

HARTFORD–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that CoRISMA MCS Systems Inc., based in Hamden, was named February’s “Innovator of the Month.” Founded in 2018 and spun out of Yale University, CoRISMA is a medical device company developing a fully implanted transcatheter device to increase blood flow for patients experiencing advanced heart... Read More about Murphy Highlights Hamden's CoRISMA MCS Systems as "Innovator of the Month"

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Monday released the following statement:“Today’s announcement is good news for the people of Northern Ireland, who stand to benefit from the unique economic access and political stability provided under the Windsor Framework. The agreement... Read More about Murphy Statement on Agreement Reached on Northern Ireland Protocol

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday celebrated passage of the National Liberty Memorial Preservation Act, which was included in the fiscal year 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act that President Biden signed in December. The legislation authorizes construction of the National Liberty Memorial, a monument to honor the Black and... Read More about Murphy Celebrates Black History Month, Passage of Legislation to Honor Black Revolutionary War Patriots

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday led 32 of their colleagues, including U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), in a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)... Read More about Murphy, Baldwin, Blumenthal, Senate Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Limit Availability of Junk Health Care Plan

WASHINGTON –As the five largest publicly traded oil companies boast to Wall Street about their record $264.3 billion haul in 2022, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 15 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to crack down on profiteering by Big Oil and return the... Read More about After Record Year For Big Oil, Murphy, Blumenthal Introduce Bill To Claw Back Windfall Profits And Send Relief To The American Public

WASHINGTON–U.S Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor on the upcoming one year anniversary since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Murphy highlighted that calls to end U.S. support to Ukraine by Donald Trump and the MAGA wing of... Read More about Murphy: The Republicans Lifting Up Putin Are the Same Ones Trying to Destroy Democracy

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Friday applauded the U.S. Department of Education announcement of more than $188 million from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to increase access to school-based mental health services and strengthen the pipeline of... Read More about Murphy Applauds $188 Million from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to Support Mental Health for Students

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday announced he will join the U.S. Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in the 118th Congress. Murphy will retain chairmanship of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security and continue to serve on four additional Appropriations Subcommittees: (1) Labor, Health and... Read More about Murphy Wins Seat on Defense Appropriations Subcommittee

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) led 47 senators, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Thursday in reintroducing the Background Check Expansion Act to expand federal background checks to all gun sales. Although more than 90 percent of... Read More about Murphy Leads 47 Senators to Reintroduce Background Check Expansion Act

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) hearing on countering illicit fentanyl trafficking with Anne Milgram, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Todd Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Narcotics and... Read More about Murphy Questions Drug Enforcement Administration, State Department Officials On Work With China And Mexico To Tackle Fentanyl Trafficking

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D- Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 34 other senators in a letter to President Biden urging the administration to include funding in the upcoming budget request to more comprehensively address PFAS contamination. Specifically, the letter... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Urge Biden Administration To Prioritize Efforts To Combat PFAS Contamination

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, on Wednesday released the following statement:“The Israeli government’s move to advance nearly 10,000 new settlement homes and legalize nine outposts in the West Bank is deeply... Read More about Murphy Statement on Israeli Settlement Announcement

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday announced reintroduction of legislation to counter the threat that misinformation and disinformation pose to public health. The Promoting Public Health... Read More about Murphy, Luján Reintroduce Legislation To Combat Public Health Misinformation

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announcement of over $231 million dollars funded by Murphy’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to support the creation and implementation of red flag laws, state crisis intervention court proceedings, and other gun... Read More about Murphy Applauds $231 Million From Bipartisan Safer Communities Act To Support Red Flag Laws, Gun Safety Programs

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) in sending a letter alongside their Senate colleagues urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to swiftly release the $1.5 billion in Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Senate Colleagues Call For HHS To Release Remaining $1.5 Billion In LIHEAP Funding To States

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.) joined Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)  in sending a letter to the... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Durbin, Sanders, Smith Urge Department Of Education To Inform Potential Students Of Low-Financial-Value Postsecondary Programs

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and all Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) in a letter inviting Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to testify at a hearing in front of the panel about the company’s lack of compliance with Federal labor... Read More about Murphy, Democratic Members Of Help Committee Invite Starbucks CEO To Testify At Hearing On Company’s Labor Practices

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.-3), John Larson (D-Conn.-1), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.-2), Jim Himes (D-Conn.-4), and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.-5) on Friday requested U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III to direct the Department of the Army to provide a... Read More about Connecticut Delegation Sends Letter to Secretary of Defense Austin in Fifth Attempt to Receive Army Briefing on FLRAA Competition

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on Thursday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to evaluate U.S.-China policy in the era of strategic competition with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Ely Ratner.In a question to Secretary Sherman,... Read More about Murphy Questions State, Defense Officials About Flow of Fentanyl into the U.S., Investment in Diplomatic Resources to Compete with China