WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday reintroduced legislation to strengthen consumer protections and reform medical debt practices. The Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act would put in place standard practices to make sure that health care entities communicate... Read More about Murphy, Van Hollen Reintroduce Legislation to Protect Consumers from Medical Debt

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation to protect federal marriage equality for same-sex and interracial couples and repeals the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act:“Every person deserves the right to marry who they love.... Read More about Murphy Applauds Senate Passage of Respect for Marriage Act

WASHINGTON–As the winter months approach, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Angus King (I-Maine) on Tuesday urged the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to proactively develop a plan to prevent energy disruption and price hikes. In a letter to Energy Secretary... Read More about As Temperatures Drop, Murphy, Blumenthal, Leahy, Sanders, King Urge Energy Secretary Granholm to Develop a Plan to Prevent Energy Disruptions in New England

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) sent a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) sharing feedback he received from stakeholders on ways to improve NOAA’s implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. The agency has historically provided funding for shovel-ready... Read More about Murphy Urges NOAA to Incorporate Connecticut Stakeholder Feedback in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act Implementation

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday joined CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash to discuss next steps for the gun violence prevention movement in the wake of the tragic shootings in Colorado and Virginia.On the potential to pass an assault weapons ban, Murphy said: “I'm glad that President Biden is going to be pushing us to... Read More about Murphy On State of the Union: We Need To Have A Conversation About The 60 Percent Of Counties Refusing To Implement Gun Safety Laws

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.-06) on Tuesday urged the Biden Administration to quickly implement investments in living shoreline projects from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act. In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... Read More about Murphy, Pallone Call on Biden Administration to Swiftly Deliver Funding to Promote Coastal Resilience

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) authored an op-ed in the Boston Globe with Brad Campbell, president of the Conservation Law Foundation, to make the case for a progressive vision of permitting reform. Murphy and Campbell argue that the United States needs to reform its permitting process in order to meet the urgency of the climate... Read More about Murphy Op-Ed with Conservation Law Foundation President: Progressive Cannot Be Afraid to Start the Conversation on Permitting Reform

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 meeting with Ambassador Lynne Tracy, nominee for Ambassador to Russia:“Maintaining clear communication channels with Russia is critical to our efforts to prevent further escalation in Ukraine... Read More about Murphy Readout of Meeting with Nominee for Ambassador to Russia

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) spoke on Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy in the Caucasus with Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried.Murphy asked about the Turkey-Armenia relationship and the role the United States should play: I wanted to ask a... Read More about Murphy Discusses U.S. Policy in the Caucasus and Balkans

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday released the following statements on the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) submission of projects for the Northeast Corridor (NEC) Inventory. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed last year provided more than $20 billion in funding for a... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Statements on Proposed Projects for Northeast Corridor Rail Improvement

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Environment and Public Works Committees, and U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.-01), Chairman of the U.S.... Read More about Murphy, Merkley, Cicilline, Keating, Colleagues Call On Administration To Center Human Rights Ahead Of Cop27 In Egypt

HARTFORD–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced that Quantum-Si, based in Guilford, was named October’s “Innovator of the Month.” Quantum-Si is a life sciences company that has developed a next-generation, single molecule protein sequencing technology powered by a first-of-its-kind semiconductor chip in order to advance drug discovery and... Read More about Murphy Highlights Guilford’s Quantum-Si as “innovator of the Month”

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 Monday sent a letter to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), requesting an immediate investigation into the potential national security concerns... Read More about Murphy Requests Review of Foreign Stake in Acquisition of Twitter, Inc.

HARTFORD—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn,), and U.S. Representatives Joe Courtney (D-Conn.-02) and Jim Himes (D-Conn.-04) on Monday announced $17 million in grants from the MARAD FY22 Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) for the City of New London Port Infrastructure Development Project and the... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Courtney, Himes, Local Leaders Announce $17 Million in Grants for Improvements to Ports in New London and Bridgeport

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), led a group of fourteen senators in urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to issue enforcement guidance and clarify the recently finalized Ghost Gun Rule.“The Ghost Gun Rule was promulgated to stop... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Lead Colleagues in Urging DOJ & ATF to Clarify & Enforce Ghost Guns Rule

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 and a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday joined CNN International’s Connect the World with Becky Anderson to discuss re-evaluating the... Read More about Murphy on CNNi: The Saudis Can't Separate the Economics of Oil from the Politics of Oil

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement after the devastating news that two Bristol Police Officers were shot and killed in the line of duty last night, and a third officer was shot and seriously injured:“I am devastated by the news that two Bristol police officers, Sergeant Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex... Read More about Murphy Statement on Shooting of Bristol Police Officers

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 and a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday released the following statement on immediate steps the U.S. should take to recalibrate our military... Read More about Murphy Statement on Recalibrating Our Military Assistance to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Tuesday released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) announcement of an additional $15 million funded by Murphy’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act for states to develop and... Read More about Murphy Applauds Funding From Bipartisan Safer Communities Act To Expand Behavioral Health Clinics Nationwide

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter with a bipartisan coalition of 31 U.S. senators urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release funds for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) as swiftly and at the highest level as possible.“Given the... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Release of LIHEAP Home Heating Aid