Hartford, CT — Today, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan urging the Department of Defense (DOD) to include “full funding for the game-changing F-35 to ensure that our warfighters have the most capable, lethal, and stealth fighter fleet” in the upcoming defense... Read More about CONNECTICUT CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION URGES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT TO PRESERVE FULL F-35 FUNDING IN DEFENSE BUDGET REQUEST

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Tuesday voted against the nomination of Chad Readler to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Readler was a lead lawyer behind the Trump administration’s decision to support the lawsuit to repeal the... Read More about MURPHY VOTES AGAINST NOMINEE WHO SIDED WITH TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO STRIP AWAY PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that family owned and operated manufacturer Mercantile Development, Inc. (MDI) is this week's "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer." Founded in 1947, MDI is a third-generation, specialty converter of professional-grade nonwoven wiping products and is Women’s Business Enterprise... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS SHELTON MANUFACTURER, MERCANTILE DEVELOPMENT, INC., AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Thursday that Quantum Circuits, Inc. (QCI), a quantum computer startup based in New Haven, is “Murphy’s Innovator of the Month.” QCI was founded in 2015 by Michel Devoret, Luigi Frunzio, and Robert Schoelkopf, three world-leading pioneers of the modern... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS NEW HAVEN INNOVATOR, QUANTUM CIRCUITS, INC., AS “MURPHY’S INNOVATOR OF THE MONTH”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined Ranking Member of the Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who led a bipartisan group of his Foreign Relations colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Secretary of... Read More about MURPHY JOINS BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS DEMANDING ANSWERS ABOUT ALLEGED SAUDI AND UAE ARMS TRANSFERS TO EXTREMIST GROUPS

(Hartford, CT)— The Connecticut Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T Corporation, to urge his reconsideration of the decision to move 92 union positions and 25 management positions from the AT&T facility in Meriden to facilities in Georgia and Tennessee. “These positions are quality, good... Read More about CONNECTICUT CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION URGES AT&T TO RECONSIDER ELMINATING OVER 100 JOBS IN MERIDEN

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Tim Scott (R-SC), Richard Blumenthal (D- CT), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), today sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General, William Barr, requesting implementation and reporting information... Read More about MURPHY, CORNYN URGE AGENCIES TO COMPLY WITH FIX NICS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, on Wednesday urged the Indian and Pakistani governments to convene emergency high-level talks to de-escalate tensions between the two countries. According to reports,... Read More about MURPHY URGES DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS AMID ESCALATING TENSIONS BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND INDIA & CALLS ON TRUMP TO NOMINATE AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN

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