WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and 23 Senators sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), urging the agency to develop and implement comprehensive mental health care plans to ensure veterans’ well-being during and after the pandemic. “The stress, uncertainty, and isolation... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, SENATORS URGE VA TO PRIORITIZE VETERANS’ MENTAL HEALTH CARE AMID PANDEMIC

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Friday led 8 Senate Democrats in urging the Trump administration to cover the COVID-19 treatment expenses for those enrolled in short term, limited duration insurance (STLDI)... Read More about MURPHY, BALDWIN LEAD CALL URGING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO COVER COVID-19 RELATED MEDICAL EXPENSES FOR THOSE ENROLLED IN JUNK PLANS

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Connecticut Congressional Delegation sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging him to release additional Congressionally-appropriated funding to the seventeen small- and medium-sized hospitals in Connecticut that were excluded from the recent $10 billion COVID High Impact... Read More about Connecticut Congressional Delegation Urges HHS Sec. Azar to Distribute Congressional Funding to All CT Hospitals

WASHINGTON—Following reports of an attempted raid on Venezuela allegedly orchestrated by a group of Venenzuelan military defectors and two American citizens, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), along with U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), all members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday asked the U.S.... Read More about MURPHY, KAINE, UDALL REQUEST ANSWERS FROM STATE, DOJ, DNI ON ATTEMPTED RAID IN VENEZUELA BY MILITARY DEFECTORS, U.S. CITIZENS

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Thursday questioned Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Gary Disbrow of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) on the administration’s novel coronavirus... Read More about MURPHY: THE U.S. MUST WORK AT HOME AND WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS TO DEVELOP A COVID-19 VACCINE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), who led a bipartisan group of 25 lawmakers in pushing to make sure urgently needed federal assistance is delivered to America’s fishermen and seafood processors,... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL JOIN BIPARTISAN PUSH TO SUPPORT FISHERMEN AND SEAFOOD PROCESSORS

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and 20 of their senate colleagues, joined a letter led by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) pushing the Trump administration to provide a detailed briefing to Congress and the American people regarding their strategy to produce and distribute a... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, MERKLEY, MURRAY, COLLEAGUES PUSH TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR DETAILED COVID-19 VACCINE STRATEGY

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and the entire Democratic bench of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in sent a letter  led by Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) to express their opposition to his plans of convening a committee business meeting next week without any major legislation related to... Read More about MURPHY, FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS ANNOUNCE OPPOSITION TO CONVENING COMMITTEE BUSINESS MEETING WITHOUT COVID-19 FOCUS

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Thursday made the following statement after 21 states filed a brief defending the Affordable Care Act as part of a Trump administration supported lawsuit before the Supreme Court to overturn the entire law:  “We cannot... Read More about MURPHY BLASTS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, REPUBLICANS FOR CONTINUED SABOTAGE OF U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM DURING NATIONAL HEALTH CRISIS

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday delivered remarks on the U.S. Senate floor blasting the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and detailing what Congress should be focused on moving forward. Murphy said: “The president didn't... Read More about MURPHY: THERE WILL BE A SERIOUS ACCOUNTING OF HOW BADLY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FAILED THE NATION IT WAS SWORN TO PROTECT

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Tuesday joined the CBS Debriefing the Briefing hosted by Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett to discuss Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s dangerous decision to call... Read More about MURPHY ON CBS: WE WANT TRUMP TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT ATTACKING THIS VIRUS; TAXPAYER DOLLARS SHOULD HELP CREATE TESTING CAPACITIES, TREAT COVID PATIENTS, AND PROTECT STATES FROM BANKRUPTCY

HARTFORD—Today, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representatives John Larson (D-1), Joe Courtney (D-2), Rosa DeLauro (D-3), Jim Himes (D-4), and Jahana Hayes (D-5) applauded $2.3 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding for assisting communities in cleaning up contaminated... Read More about CONNECTICUT CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION APPLAUDS $2.3 MILLION IN FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR BROWNFIELD CLEANUP

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a letter led by Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) pressing the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for a strategy to protect human rights around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Murphy, Blumenthal, Merkley and... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, MERKLEY, YOUNG LEAD PUSH FOR UNITED NATIONS PLAN TO PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

WASHINGTON—In a letter addressed to the President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Mark Emmert, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) this week urged the NCAA to take further action to ensure that college athletes are able to access the rights and opportunities they deserve. Their letter... Read More about MURPHY, BOOKER URGE FURTHER ACTION BY THE NCAA IN THE WAKE OF ITS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR COLLEGE ATHLETE COMPENSATION

WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined Democratic Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) to write the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting Administrator Pete T. Gaynor extend the incident period for the major disaster declaration in Puerto Rico to... Read More about FOLLOWING DAMAGING WEEKEND EARTHQUAKES IN PUERTO RICO, MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL CALL FOR FEMA COVERAGE OF ALL EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and 17 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the Department of State and the Trump administration to take immediate action to exempt... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, MURRAY, SHAHEEN, DEM COLLEAGUES LEAD CALL TO OVERTURN IDEOLOGICAL TRUMP ADMINISTRATION POLICIES THAT UNDERMINE GLOBAL HEALTH AND COVID-19 RESPONSE

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) wrote to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Michael Carvajal, demanding that he provide answers regarding the department’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak at FCI Danbury. There are currently over 60 inmates and 50 staff who have contracted the disease,... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL DEMAND ANSWERS REGARDING COVID-19 OUTBREAK AT FCI DANBURY

HARTFORD—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Monday that Whelen Engineering Company, Inc., in Chester is this week’s “Murphy’s Monday Manufacturer.” Founded in 1952 by George W. Whelen III in his garage in Deep River, Whelen Engineering Company specializes in the manufacturing of warning lights, white illumination lighting, vehicle... Read More about MURPHY HIGHLIGHTS CHESTER MANUFACTURER, WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC., AS THIS WEEK’S “MURPHY’S MONDAY MANUFACTURER”

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and senate colleagues joined a letter led by Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to immediately disburse $8 billion in critical relief funds to eligible federally recognized Tribal governments. In the letter, the senators stress that this... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, SMITH TO MNUCHIN: DISBURSE $8 BILLION IN CRITICAL COVID-19 RELIEF TO TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS IMMEDIATELY

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a bipartisan letter led by Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), urging the USDA to target COVID-19 relief provisions to reach local farmers in the new Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). USDA created... Read More about MURPHY, BLUMENTHAL, BROWN, COLLINS, STABENOW URGE USDA TO TARGET RELIEF TO LOCAL FARMERS IN FINALIZED CORONAVIRUS FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM