WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas-35) on Tuesday unveiled the Banning Event Trading on Sensitive Operations and Federal Functions (BETS OFF) Act, bicameral legislation to ban wagering on government actions, terrorism, war, assassination, and events where an individual knows or controls the... Read More about Murphy, Casar Introduce Bicameral Bill To Ban Prediction Markets On Government Actions, War, and Events Ripe For Rigging

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), and Angus King (I-Maine) on Thursday reintroduced the Agricultural Management Assistance Act to reauthorize and improve the Partnership for Risk Management Education and the Agricultural Management Assistance (AMA) programs, which help farmers manage financial risk through diversification, marketing,... Read More about Murphy, King, Pingree Reintroduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation To Protect Small Farmers From Financial Risk

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement after the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed 89-10 in the U.S. Senate: “Everywhere I go in Connecticut, families tell me they’re struggling to afford the place they call home. It’s tougher than ever to buy or rent a home, especially as Trump’s health care cuts,... Read More about Murphy Statement In Favor Of Senate Housing Bill

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined six Senate Democrats in an effort to continue seeking details from major pharmaceutical companies about their so-called deals with the Trump administration, in particular, any evidence that these deals will... Read More about Murphy, Senate Democrats Press Pharmaceutical Companies For Evidence Of Cost Savings For Americans Following Secret Deals With Trump

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday appeared on CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper to discuss Donald Trump’s illegal and disastrous war in Iran. Murphy argued against providing a historically incompetent Trump administration with additional funding to carry out a war Americans don’t support. Murphy made clear Trump... Read More about Murphy On SOTU: If You Support The Troops, Then You Should Be Voting Against Funding The War

HARTFORD, CT— Marking the 10-year anniversary of his ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Challenge,' U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday announced the 15 winners of the contest. This year, Murphy received more than 1,000 entries from elementary, middle, and high school students from across Connecticut reflecting on how they can live Dr. King’s... Read More about Murphy Shares Winning Essays Of His 10th Annual 'Martin Luther King Jr. Day Essay Challenge'

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is joining his Senate colleagues in demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately ramp up communication and efforts to safely evacuate American citizens who have been left stranded in a crisis of Trump’s own making in the Middle East. Even after Donald Trump admitted that there was no... Read More about Murphy Joins Colleagues In Demanding Secretary Rubio Ramp Up Crisis Efforts To Safely Evacuate Americans Left Stranded By Trump's War Of Choice Against Iran

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem: “Kristi Noem will be remembered for her outrageous incompetence in overseeing a department that killed American citizens, imprisoned hundreds of children, terrorized communities, and broke the law... Read More about Murphy Statement On Firing Of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to support U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s (D-Va) War Powers Resolution, while urging his colleagues to force President Trump to fulfill his constitutional obligations and seek an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iran. Murphy slammed the... Read More about Murphy on Trump’s Illegal War with Iran: the Senate Must Debate an Authorization for the Use of Military Force

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday spoke at J Street’s 2026 Annual Conference, “Building Tomorrow: Regional Peace and Resilient Democracy.” Murphy laid out how the safety of the Jewish people is inherently linked to the survival of American democracy and why Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy our democracy, including his... Read More about Murphy At J Street Conference: American Democracy Is Vital To The Future Of The Jewish People

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a legal opinion on the Department of Homeland Security’s purchase of six Boeing 737 planes, which may include the $70 million dollar acquisition of a luxury plane for Secretary Kristi Noem’s travel. While DHS has... Read More about Murphy Demands Accountability For DHS' Illegal Purchase Of Six Airplanes

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. Murphy unequivocally condemned Trump’s choice to launch a war with Iran, which the American people do not want and has already cost American lives. Murphy argued Trump’s decision to take military action without congressional... Read More about Murphy On Face the Nation: It Won't Be Trump's Kids That Die For This War Of Choice With Iran

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement in response to Donald Trump launching an illegal war with Iran: “Trump's attacks on Iran are dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale. Has he learned nothing from decades of U.S. military disaster in the Middle East? Has he spent not one single minute... Read More about Murphy Statement On Trump's Illegal War With Iran

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, and a group of Democratic senators in introducing The American... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Senate Democrats To Introduce The American Homeownership Act To Stop Wall Street's Housing Grab And Get Homes Back Into The Hands Of Families

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and 18 of their Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump’s... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Democratic Senate Colleagues In Demanding Independent Probe Of Funds Used By ICE, CBP To Carry Out Trump's Cruel Immigration Enforcement

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to demand reforms to the Department of Homeland Security. He shared horrifying stories of the Department of Homeland Security’s abuses under the Trump administration: from teargassing schools, to murdering American citizens with impunity, and... Read More about Murphy On DHS Funding Fight: We Are Demanding That ICE Follow The Law

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, during her confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Murphy confronted Dr. Means over allegations she exploited the trust... Read More about Murphy To Surgeon General Nominee: You Lied To The Public About Financial Conflicts Of Interest

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday announced he has invited Fereshteh Ganjavi as his guest for the People’s State of the Union, a rally on the National Mall counterprogramming President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. A refugee from Afghanistan, Ganjavi is the Founder and Executive Director of Elena’s Light, a... Read More about Murphy Announces People's State of the Union Guest, Fereshteh Ganjavi, Afghan Refugee And CT Nonprofit Founder

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Friday took part in a panel at the Munich Security Conference: “Outsmarting Ourselves? Risks and Rewards of the AI Race.” Murphy spoke alongside academics, European officials, and a Google executive to assess the emerging, and quickly evolving, risks AI poses to our economy, politics, and sense of... Read More about Murphy In Munich On AI: We Need Regulation And International Cooperation To Prevent Economic And Cultural Collapse

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a group of Northeast Corridor Democrats in sending a letter to Senate Commerce and Appropriations Committee leadership, urging them to include advance appropriations for Amtrak and passenger rail programs in the next surface transportation reauthorization... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Join Northeast Corridor Democrats to Call For Advance Amtrak Appropriations