HARTFORD—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) announced on Wednesday that innovator Tangen Biosciences in Branford has been named “Innovator of the Month.” Founded in 2013 by two Connecticut natives, Tangen’s goal has been to bring high quality molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases out of the laboratory and closer to... Read More

HARTFORD—Members of Connecticut Congressional Delegation today sent a letter to President Donald Trump to urge him to grant Governor Ned Lamont’s request for a major disaster declaration following as a result of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias.“The significant outages and damage caused by the storm placed additional burdens on our state... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) along with U.S. Representatives Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) and Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) on Tuesday sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma asking for confirmation of full implementation of the At-Risk Youth Medicaid... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced a bipartisan resolution designating the week of October 5 through October 9 2020, as “Malnutrition Awareness Week.” Malnutrition is a significant problem in the United States and occurs when a person does not get enough nutrients. The resolution... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released the following statement following President Trump’s announcement of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court:“If Trump puts Amy Coney Barrett, his hand-picked nominee, on the court, millions of people I represent in Connecticut will be kicked off their health... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.) on this week urged Congressional leadership to include fiscal and educational equity provisions in the next COVID-19 package to protect against cuts to school districts that are already underfunded and serve predominantly low-income students and... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), introduced legislation to strengthen consumer protections and reform medical debt practices. The Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act would put in standard practices to make sure that health care entities communicate with consumers any debt... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, this week joined Politico Pulse Check podcast with host Dan Diamond to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy and what that means for Americans’ health care, and the administration’s gross mishandling of COVID-19.On the U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, on Thursday pressed U.S. State Department Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S. policy in a... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, pressed White House Coronavirus Task Force members on Wednesday at a committee hearing on the Trump administration’s failed response to COVID-19. Specifically, Murphy pressed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)... 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 after the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released its interim report on Joe Biden and Burisma:“This ‘report’ is a campaign document based on a conspiracy theory promoted... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), this week spoke with Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. The Senators expressed support for her leadership amid nationwide protests and condemned the sham election that took place in August. Murphy, Durbin and Kaine recently introduced... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on joined U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and several of their Democratic colleagues in calling on Senate Republicans to honor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish that she not be replaced until a... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, along with Protect Our Care’s Executive Director Brad Woodhouse and health care advocate Laura Packard, on Tuesday highlighted what’s at stake with the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, and specifically what it means for the... Read More

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, authored an op-ed in Modern Healthcare providing an overview of President Trump and Republicans’ lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act in its entirety and the disastrous consequences the American people will face... Read More

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), released the following statement in response to the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died.“Ruth Bader Ginsburg changed her nation for the better. Fairness and justice, especially for those with the least access to power, were her north stars. She was a pioneer for women in the... Read More

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released the following statement after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced their revised guidelines for asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic testing of COVID-19.“This is nuclear-grade incompetence.... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and the Connecticut Congressional delegation announced that after months of making the case to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue for expanded federal assistance to Connecticut shellfish farmers, the USDA has finally announced that shellfish farmers will be eligible for... Read More

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, this week joined the Hill’s Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons for a virtual discussion on the need to provide reliable access to effective and affordable health care and equipment during a global health crisis. Murphy... Read More

HARTFORD—In the wake of serious allegations and recent lawsuits filed against the National Rifle Association (NRA), NRA Foundation and their leadership by the attorneys general of New York and the District of Columbia, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined a group of colleagues in calling on the head of the... Read More