WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes (CT-5), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, on Thursday introduced the Closing the College Hunger Gap Act, which would help... Read More about MURPHY, HAYES INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS COLLEGE HUNGER CRISIS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, on Wednesday blasted R. Clarke Cooper, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, on his inaccurate testimony that civilian air-strike casualties in... Read More about MURPHY QUESTIONS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ON SAUDI-LED CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN YEMEN

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) who led a group of Democratic Senators in responding to the Trump Administration’s attempts to rip health care away from tens of millions of Americans by introducing a new resolution supporting a “health... Read More about MURPHY & BLUMENTHAL STAND UP FOR HEALTH CARE BILL OF RIGHTS

WASHINGTON – As the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments today in the Texas v. United States, a partisan lawsuit to gut the entire Affordable Care Act, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Tuesday led a group of Senators on the U.S. Senate... Read More about MURPHY LEADS SENATORS IN CALLING OUT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND REPUBLICANS FOR SUPPORTING LAWSUIT TO GUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, SABOTAGE HEALTH CARE

WASHIGNTON – In an effort to curb veteran homelessness across the country, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) today in introducing the Veteran Housing Opportunities and Unemployment Support Extension... Read More about MURPHY, TESTER, YOUNG INTRODUCE BILL TO CURB VETERAN HOMELESSNESS

WASHINGTON – Ahead oral arguments in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas v. United States, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Tuesday authored an op-ed in the Hartford Courant outlining what’s at stake for the 522,000 residents in Connecticut and... Read More about MURPHY OP-ED IN HARTFORD COURANT: “TRUMP’S HEALTH CARE SABOTAGE WILL GUT PROTECTIONS FOR CONNECTICUT”

WASHINGTON – Ahead of Tuesday’s oral arguments in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas v. United States, a partisan lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA), U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer... Read More about AHEAD OF ORAL ARGUMENTS IN TEXAS V. UNITED STATES, MURPHY LAYS OUT WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

WASHINGTON—Following a Reuters report that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo excluded the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the State Department’s list of countries known to recruit and use child soldiers in the 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report, despite State Department experts’ findings that should have led to its inclusion on such... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL PRESS POMPEO ON DETERMINATION TO EXCLUDE SAUDI ARABIA FROM LIST OF COUNTRIES KNOWN TO RECRUIT & USE CHILD SOLDIERS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in introducing a bipartisan U.S. Senate resolution to honor the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Stonewall is an important moment in American history... Read More about MUPRHY, BLUMENTHAL & COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN SENATE RESOLUTION TO HONOR THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL UPRISING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Friday that ReNetX Bio, a biotechnology company in New Haven, has been named “Innovator of the Month.” ReNetX was founded in 2010 based on innovative technology and research done at Yale University to restore neurologic function after central nervous system (CNS)... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS NEW HAVEN’S RENETX BIO AS “MURPHY’S INNOVATOR OF THE MONTH”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counter Terrorism, released the following statement after a bipartisan majority of senators voted in favor of an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS BIPARTISAN MAJORITY VOTE ON IRAN WAR AUTHORIZATION AMENDMENT

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) joined six senators in a letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue probing the Trump administration’s failure to release emergency nutrition assistance funds to Puerto Rico already... Read More about MURPHY, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS SEND LETTER PROBING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DELAY IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY NUTRITION ASSISTANCE FOR PUERTO RICO

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, on Thursday applauded the final passage of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The legislation authorizes the appropriations of funds for the... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS SENATE PASSAGE OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION BILL THAT EXPANDS CONNECTICUT MANUFACTURING AND STRENGTHENS U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, launched a new bipartisan effort Tuesday, to combat marine debris led by U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).  The Save Our Seas 2.0 Act seeks to help reduce the creation of... Read More about MURPHY, BIPARTISAN SENATORS LAUNCH NEW BIPARTISAN EFFORT TO COMBAT MARINE DEBRIS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who led a group of senators on this week in writing a letter to President Trump, urging his administration to grant Temporary... Read More about MURPHY, DEMOCRATS CALL ON TRUMP TO HELP VENEZUELANS BY GRANTING THEM TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS

WASHINGTON – Less than two weeks before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the Texas v. United States case, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Wednesday delivered remarks on the U.S. Senate floor to blast the Trump... Read More about MURPHY BLASTS REPUBLICANS’ CONTINUED SABOTAGE OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, CONTINUED EFFORTS TO GUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Wednesday applauded Senate passage of an emergency supplemental appropriations bill that would provide humanitarian assistance for children and families at the border: “We have a humanitarian crisis on our southern border.... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS SENATE PASSAGE OF EMERGENCY BORDER SUPPLEMENTAL

Click here to view video of Murphy’s remarks.  WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee markup of the Lower Health Care Costs Act, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) offered an amendment to the Murray-Alexander compromise package to hold Republicans’ feet to... Read More about AMID TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S CONTINUED HEALTH CARE SABOTAGE, MURPHY OFFERS AMENDMENT REQUIRING ADMINISTRATION TO REPORT ON THOSE WHO WOULD BE AFFECTED IF ACA IS REPEALED

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Protect Our Care in holding a press call where they denounced Trump’s disastrous Texas lawsuit to destroy America’s health care and kick off... Read More about MURPHY, STABENOW, PROTECT OUR CARE HIGHLIGHT NEW BATTLEGROUND POLL ON HEALTH CARE AND DENOUNCE TRUMP TEXAS LAWSUIT ON PRESS CALL

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, joined U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Rand... Read More about MURPHY, COLLEAGUES APPLAUD COMMITTEE PASSAGE OF SAUDI ARABIA FALSE EMERGENCIES ACT