WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — President Joe Biden told hundreds of activists from across the nation who came to Connecticut on Friday to celebrate the upcoming anniversary of a bipartisan law that more needs to be done to address gun violence. "We will ban assault weapons in this country," Biden said as the crowd roared its approval. "We will ban... Read More about Advocates, Biden mark anniversary of gun law, look to future

Highlighting Connecticut’s role as a national leader in gun safety, President Joe Biden traveled Friday to West Hartford to hail the most comprehensive gun law in the past three decades and renew his call for a federal ban on assault weapons. As the marquee speaker at a major national gun summit, Biden celebrated the one-year anniversary of... Read More about President Biden, speaking in Hartford, renews call for assault weapons ban

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — President Joe Biden made a passionate call for tougher gun restrictions Friday, celebrating the one-year anniversary of the first significant piece of federal firearms legislation in nearly three decades but declaring it was only an “important first step.” He urged voters to defeat lawmakers who... Read More about Biden urges tougher gun restrictions, one year after Uvalde, Texas, school massacre

President Joe Biden on Friday marked one year since the passage of the first major gun safety legislation in a generation during a summit in Connecticut, as gun violence reaches record levels in the United States and additional congressional action remains stalled. In remarks at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut, the president... Read More about Biden says the gun safety movement has reached a ‘tipping point’ as he marks one year since passage of major legislation

President Biden will speak today about gun violence at an event where he will commemorate the first anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the first gun-safety legislation to be signed into law in nearly three decades.  At the University of Hartford in Connecticut, Biden is expected to tout the law and... Read More about Bipartisan gun bill has saved lives, Sen. Chris Murphy says

The collective power of national groups working to curb violence was focused in West Hartford Friday, where the Safer Communities Summit served as a celebration of the first anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act as well as a call to action to continue the work that is far from done. The summit brought together supporters of the BSCA... Read More about President Joe Biden Joins Advocates in West Hartford to Celebrate Some Success and Share Ideas on Work Left to be Done

The first anniversary of the first federal gun control law passed in nearly 30 years was celebrated Friday at the University of Hartford as a tipping point in American politics by President Joe Biden and one of the measure’s key sponsors, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Biden, who came to Connecticut as vice president a decade ago to... Read More about In CT, Joe Biden says the tide has turned on guns in America

After an ugly decade of continued mass shootings across the nation, President Biden will gather with Sandy Hook families, senators, mayors, and activists in Connecticut Friday to highlight what they have achieved to increase gun safety. "It will be a moment to mourn those we have lost, celebrate all we have accomplished, and plan for our next... Read More about Gun safety summit in Connecticut will bring together Sandy Hook families, President Biden and activists from across nation

When news broke that 19 children were gunned down in a Texas elementary school last May, I went straight to my desk on the Senate floor. I sought recognition to speak, and I proceeded to put my palms together and beg my Republican colleagues to come to the table and find a bipartisan path forward to stop these cataclysmic school shootings. I had... Read More about U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (opinion): Biden coming to CT shows strength of gun safety movement

Connecticut's U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy are joining with several of their counterparts around New England to encourage Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to support a transmission line project that would bring hydropower from Canada into New England via underwater cable beneath Lake Champlain. Blumenthal... Read More about Blumenthal, Murphy back project to bring more Canadian hydropower into New England

President Joe Biden is expected to attend a major gun control summit next Friday in West Hartford that is attracting speakers from around the country. The White House announced that Biden will be traveling to Connecticut on June 16, but said that further details would be released later. The gun summit, known as The National Safer... Read More about President Joe Biden expected to attend major gun summit in West Hartford

Susan Mitchell hopped onto her tractor on an overcast day in early May to start the early stages of planting summer squash and zucchini for the third growing season on her farm in Columbia. She laid three rows of black plastic mulch to help with moisture retention and weed control as two of her workers, Naomi Ford and Sarah Medeiros, assisted from... Read More about CT farmers have a wish list, and the new Farm Bill could help

STAMFORD — One of Connecticut’s senators and a state representative for Stamford recently shared a “small world” moment while both were thousands of miles from home. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and state Rep. Hubert Delany, D-144, ran into each other in the lobby of a hotel in Tirana, Albania last month. Murphy, who serves... Read More about A 'small world': How Sen. Murphy, state Rep. Delany of Stamford bumped into each other overseas

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Sunday that the tense debt limit talks between the White House and Congress are just the latest example of the Republican Party being “addicted to chaos.” President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) reached an “agreement in principle” over the weekend on... Read More about Sen. Chris Murphy Says Republican Party Is ‘Addicted To Chaos’

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A U.S. senator on Thursday said he hopes Serbia would adopt Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, telling the Balkan country that “there is no future” in an alliance with Moscow. “Russia’s invasion has been an absolute disaster and my belief is that Russia is ultimately... Read More about US senator hopes Serbia adopts Russia sanctions as Serb spy chief travels to Moscow

WASHINGTON (WTNH) — New legislation hopes to hold the gun industry accountable by studying what’s being called unfair and deceptive marketing. “These kinds of ads that target young people ought to be stopped,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said. Blumenthal and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) have introduced the... Read More about Connecticut senators introduce Responsible Firearms Marketing Act

U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would hold gun manufacturers accountable for dangerous marketing. According to Blumenthal, the companies are glorifying weapons of mass destruction to teenage boys. “All these companies that sell military style assault weapons appeal to that sense of... Read More about Blumenthal and Murphy introduce legislation to stop dangerous gun marketing

PRISTINA, May 22 (Reuters) - Kosovo must implement a Western-brokered peace deal with Serbia if it wants to achieve its goal of joining the NATO military alliance, two U.S. senators visiting Pristina said on Monday. U.S. Democratic senators Chris Murphy, a member of the foreign relations committee, and Gary Peters, who sits on the armed services... Read More about Kosovo must implement Serbia peace deal before it can join NATO - US senators

A group of national lawmakers, led by Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, have reintroduced a proposal that would block schools nationally from secluding students in locked rooms or using certain types of physical restraints, Murphy announced Thursday. Though the bill, called the Keeping All Students Safe Act, faces long odds in a divided Congress, it... Read More about CT Sen. Chris Murphy calls for restrictions of restraint and seclusion practices in U.S. schools

As a crucial June debt limit deadline looms without a deal in sight between the White House and congressional leaders, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Sunday opposed the idea of President Joe Biden’s using the 14th Amendment to unilaterally avert a debt default. In an interview on “Meet the Press,” NBC News' Chuck Todd... Read More about Murphy: Biden’s using 14th Amendment for debt ceiling would ‘absolve Congress from being adults’