WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Committee Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) this week introduced the Ukraine Security Partnership Act to provide... Read More

WASHINGTON—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), announced that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) had completed its report on the financial impact of crumbling foundations that the Members... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday pressed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the Russian misinformation campaigns ahead of the 2020 election, the president’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) during a pandemic, and the capabilities... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Thursday that Farmington innovator CaroGen Corporation has been named “Innovator of the Month.” CaroGen is a private biotechnology company with a patented and transformative novel immunotherapy and vaccine platform called AVIDIO or Artificial... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 32 of their senate colleagues in a letter led by U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) urging the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue critical flexibilities that have allowed students to access much-needed... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday made the following statement on the administration’s plans to remove thousands of U.S. troops from Germany: “There is a reasonable case to make about right-sizing U.S. forces in Europe, but the way this was done is... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would prohibit federal funds for police in schools, diverting existing resources towards the use of... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) this week sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons urging the FTC to take immediate action to protect workers suffering undue harm from the imposition and enforcement of employers’ non-compete agreements during the... Read More

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) introduced the COVID-19 Medical Debt Collection Relief Act, legislation to prevent health care providers from taking drastic steps to collect medical debts from patients – including seizing bank accounts and garnishing wages. Nearly one in four... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday delivered remarks on the U.S. Senate floor blasting his Republicans colleagues’ latest COVID-19 relief proposal, unveiled more than 10 weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act. In his remarks, Murphy highlighted the need for a comprehensive testing... Read More

WASHINGTON—As the U.S. Senate prepares for a debate on additional COVID-19 relief, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), both members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), highlighted growing support for their legislation to increase funding... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Thursday pressed U.S. Department of State’s Executive Secretary Lisa Kenna during her nomination hearing to become the U.S. Ambassador to Peru. Murphy pressed Kenna about her knowledge of a State Department memo that recently went... Read More

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representatives John Larson (CT-01), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Jim Himes (CT-04), and Jahana Hayes (CT-05), joined a letter led by U.S. Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) to House and Senate leadership to urge them to provide support for shellfish and... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) on this week applauded the passage of an amended version of their Living Shorelines Act, which passed out of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on a bipartisan vote. Congressman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Chairman of the House Energy and... Read More

WASHINGTON—Due to declining ridership and revenue as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday led a group of eleven Democratic Senators in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) calling for substantial funding for Amtrak in any... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and 45 of their Democratic Senators joined U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in introducing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a bipartisan bill to restore the landmark Voting Rights Act, end the scourge of minority voter suppression, and help preserve... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday questioned Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun at a Committee hearing on advancing effective U.S. competition with China. Murphy specifically pressed Biegun on the consequences of the Trump administration’s failure... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) and 34 of their colleagues, in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) requesting that he support the funding amount and proposed funding flexibility for state and local governments that was included... Read More

WASHINGTON—As reports of testing and personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages across the country grow, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), along with U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), took to the Senate floor on... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Tuesday released the following statement on his appeal to the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) to declassify the War Powers Notification relating to the killing of Qasem Soleimani in... Read More