WASHINGTON – On their 40th anniversary in Connecticut, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that window and door hardware manufacturer Roto Frank of America, Inc. is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Roto Frank of America, Inc. was founded in Chester in 1979 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Roto... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), all members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have introduced a resolution condemning the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, offering sincere condolences to the victims, to their families and... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) joined U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-8), on Thursday in introducing two bicameral bills to support wounded warriors by improving orthotics and prosthetics care, and expanding the current orthotics and prosthetics workforce. The... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday released the following statement after the U.S. Senate failed to override President Trump’s veto of a resolution offered by Murphy, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) to end U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON – In light of evidence that U.S. federal agencies have granted an excessive number of waivers to Buy American laws in the last few years, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Thursday reintroduced the BuyAmerican.gov Act, legislation that will... Read More

WASHINGTON – Following his recent trip to the Middle East, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday condemned the Trump administration during a U.S. Foreign Relations Committee on the humanitarian impact of the eight years of war in Syria for abdicating U.S. leadership in the region. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of State issued a... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy, a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), on Wednesday joined by U.S. Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Dick Durbin... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) on Tuesday to call on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring bipartisan legislation to the Senate floor that has already passed the U.S. House of... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Tuesday that Holberton School New Haven, an innovative college alternative for software engineers, has been named “Murphy’s Innovator of the Month.” Holberton was launched in Silicon Valley in 2016 to address the critical shortage of qualified, diverse software... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined manufacturers and business leaders from across Connecticut in Windsor Locks on Monday to kick off the 4th Annual Connecticut Export Week. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration, this year’s annual conference focuses on the state of U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday released the following statement on President Trump’s keynote speech at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Convention: “The president should be focused on saving lives cut short by gun violence rather than kowtowing to the gun lobby. Too many elected leaders are still in... Read More

WASHINGTON — After the Trump administration proposed eliminating its funding in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Tuesday led the effort to preserve funding for the National Sea Grant College Program. Murphy led a bipartisan group of 26... Read More

WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday applauded the Trump administration for registering BuyAmerican.gov as an official U.S. government URL. The website displays information about federal contracts and Buy American waivers, which will help boost... Read More

WASHINGTON — Following an outcry from local residents, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday urged Metro North to adjust their new timetable for the Waterbury Branch Line. As the Waterbury Republican-American reported, Metro-North adjusted the time of the evening train... Read More

WASHINGTON – Following a non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report that found conducting maintenance of submarines at private shipyards can save taxpayer money, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, on Tuesday urged the U.S. Navy to address the costly... Read More

WASHINGTON —U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee and a vocal proponent of boosting infrastructure investment along the Northeast Corridor, on Wednesday led the efforts to fund two important rail infrastructure and safety programs in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 budget. In a letter to U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, will travel to the Middle East, including Israel and Jordan, in the coming days to meet with government officials to discuss and... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Thursday criticized a decision by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to let companies that falsely labeled foreign products as “Made in the USA” off the hook and not press any substantive charges.  The companies... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday released the following statement after Attorney General William Barr announced he will be releasing a lightly redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The Special Counsel’s report followed a nearly two-year investigation into Russian... Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led seven senators in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on the Department’s decision to delay implementation of the Equity in IDEA regulation, an Obama-era rule that... Read More