WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, released the following statement shortly after President Trump signed the bipartisan funding bill Murphy voted for to avoid another government shutdown and fund nine federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security... Read More about MURPHY VOTES TO AVOID ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, OPPOSES NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR SOUTHERN BORDER WALL

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a letter led by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and all Democratic members of the... Read More about MURPHY, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS REQUEST BRIEFING ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE TO MAKE DETERMINATION ABOUT SAUDIS’ ROLE IN KHASHOGGI MURDER

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting by delivering one of his “Voices of Victims” speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Murphy told the stories of the students and educators whose lives we lost in last year’s mass shooting, in addition to... Read More about MURPHY HONORS PARKLAND SHOOTING VICTIMS IN HIS “VOICES OF VICTIMS” SPEECH

WASHINGTON – On the one-year anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which claimed the lives of 17 students and educators, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday released the following statement: “One year ago today we watched the unthinkable happen – again – as... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PARKLAND SHOOTING

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a leading advocate for reforming our nation’s gun laws and author of the Senate background checks bill, on Wednesday applauded the U.S. House Judiciary Committee for passing the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. The committee is also expected to pass the Enhanced Background Checks Act, a... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSAGE OF BIPARTISAN BACKGROUND CHECKS BILLS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative John Larson (CT-1) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Wednesday that they are considering terminating the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments Contract with the... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, LARSON STATEMENT FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT OF HUD TERMINATION OF CONTRACT WITH DECREPIT HARTFORD APARTMENT COMPLEX BARBOUR GARDENS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed a resolution to end U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen pursuant to the War Powers Act. The Senate plans to vote on the... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS HISTORIC HOUSE VOTE ON WAR POWERS ACT TO END U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WAR IN YEMEN

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined legislation led by Ranking Member U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and colleagues U.S. Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) yesterday in introducing... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE BILL TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMIN PUSH TO ALLOW UNFETTERED PROLIFERATION OF UNTRACEABLE, 3D PRINTABLE GUNS, WEAKEN CONTROLS OVER FOREIGN ARMS SALES

(Hartford, CT) –Today, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation applauded $782,931 in federal funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to support Long Island Sound (the Sound) research projects conducted by marine scientists at the University of Connecticut (UConn).  The funding will be used for projects that will... Read More about CONNECTICUT CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION APPLAUDS OVER $780,000 IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR LONG ISLAND SOUND RESEARCH PROJECTS

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) applauded passage of his Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Act, which will create a U.S. National Park Service protective designation for the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook, in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. With the protective designation as a... Read More about SENATE PASSES MURPHY’S BILL TO DESIGNATE FARMINGTON RIVER & SALMON BROOK AS “WILD & SCENIC”

CLICK HERE TO WATCH   [WASHINGTON, DC]. – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congressman Ted Deutch (Fla.-22) in introducing the Keep Americans Safe Act, common sense public safety legislation that would ban the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE BILL TO BAN HIGH-CAPACITY GUN MAGAZINES

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced contract electronics manufacturer Technical Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) in Durham is this week's "Murphy's Monday Manufacturer." Founded in 1985, TMC is a leading supplier of contract electronic manufacturing services for printed circuit board assemblies that are used in... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS DURHAM MANUFACTURER, TECHNICAL MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) in introducing a bicameral resolution calling for a Green New Deal that would create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States, provide... Read More about MURPHY & BLUMENTHAL INTRODUCE GREEN NEW DEAL RESOLUTION

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined legislation led by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member, and Todd Young (R-Ind.)—along with Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) yesterday... Read More about AS DEADLINE FOR ADMIN’S KHASHOGGI INVESTIGATION NEARS, MURPHY, BIPARTISAN GROUP OF SENATORS INTRODUCE SAUDI ARABIA ACCOUNTABILITY AND YEMEN BILL

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday introduced the Supreme Court Ethics Act to require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices. Unlike every other federal judge, Supreme Court justices are exempt from the Code of Conduct for U.S. Judges—a binding code of ethics that... Read More about MURPHY UNVEILS NEW BILL TO REQUIRE ETHICS CODE FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, on Wednesday released the following statement after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) signed its accession protocol with Macedonia on Wednesday in London. This is the first step to the Republic of North Macedonia... Read More about MURPHY STATEMENT ON NATO TAKING FIRST STEP TO WELCOMING THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined a letter led by U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, to executives at Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi— the three major insulin manufacturers in the United... Read More about MURPHY, MURRAY, AND HELP COMMITTEE CALL ON PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES TO EXPLAIN SKYROCKETING INSULIN PRICES

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday released the following statement ahead of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary holding the first congressional hearing on gun violence prevention in nearly a decade. The hearing “Preventing Gun Violence: A Call to Action” at 10am on Wednesday... Read More about MURPHY APPLAUDS HOUSE FOR HOLDING FIRST HEARING ON GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION IN ALMOST A DECADE

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement on Tuesday after President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address: “By Trump's standards, that was a pretty mild speech, and it certainly could have been a lot worse. But his platitudes about working together are totally... Read More about MURPHY’S STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

WASHINGTON – Following a CNN investigation that found that U.S. weapons sold to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) have fallen into the hands of terrorists linked to al Qaeda, Salafi militias, and other factions in Yemen, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for the... Read More about AFTER BOMBSHELL CNN INVESTIGATION, MURPHY CALLS FOR END OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WAR IN YEMEN