WOODBRIDGE, CT (WFSB) - For many young people, social media apps like TikTok and Instagram have been a big part of their daily lives. There’s a push to limit how social media is used and who can use it. Sen. Chris Murphy said he will be at Amity High School in Woodbridge Friday afternoon to sit down with parents and students. The plan is to... Read More about Lawmakers consider proposal barring kids under 13 from social media

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said increased federal and state spending on the clean up of Long Island Sound has helped restore commercial fishing and recreation in Connecticut. “Since I’ve been in the Senate we have quintupled the amount of funding that comes to Connecticut to clean up the sound,” Murphy said during a visit to... Read More about Murphy says Long Island Sound is cleaner, encourages more commercial fishing and recreation

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy warned the secretary of the U.S. Army that Congress could limit funds for a Bell aircraft to replace the Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter, after a history of cost overruns with the Bell V-22 Osprey which pioneered tilt-rotor technology that the new Bell aircraft duplicates. Stratford-based Sikorsky lost a... Read More about CT senator blasts Army on helicopter choice: 'Pretty miserable performance'

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., proposed a nearly $1 billion budget on Tuesday seeking to prevent fentanyl from entering into the U.S. as states like Connecticut see the synthetic opioid playing a significant role in overdose deaths. Murphy, who is chairman of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, released a five-part plan seeking to go... Read More about Murphy proposes $1B plan to combat fentanyl coming into U.S.

Can we talk? About how lonely and disconnected so many of us feel? Chris Murphy hopes so. Otherwise, he worries, we won’t be able to come together as a nation to tackle challenges ranging from mass shootings to opioid addiction to teen suicide and social-media bullying to political polarization. Murphy, one of... Read More about Senator Tackles Loneliness “Epidemic”

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The focus of a new bipartisan bill unveiled Wednesday is to protect kids from the dangers of social media. The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act would set a minimum age of 13 to use social media apps like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok and require parental consent for 13- to 17-year-olds. U.S. Sen. Chris... Read More about New bipartisan bill calls for banning kids under 13 from social media

Twelve days after the Quinnipiac University men’s hockey team secured the first NCAA Division I national championship title in university history, Connecticut’s five representatives and two senators urged President Joe Biden to invite the Bobcats to the White House. “As proud members of the Connecticut delegation, we join the... Read More about CT lawmakers honor Bobcats, encourage Biden to invite men’s hockey team to White House

Connecticut's junior Senator, Chris Murphy, took to the Senate floor on Wednesday to raise alarm over a national “collective anxiety” that he said spilled over this month into a spate of high-profile and seemingly senseless shootings. Murphy’s comments came a day after police in Austin, Texas arrested a man who... Read More about After senseless shootings, Chris Murphy places blame on 'toxic mixture' of guns and anger

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday gave an impassioned speech about a string of recent incidents in which people have been shot, and in some cases killed, for making small mistakes like turning into the wrong driveway or going up to the wrong car. Driving the news: "This week, this country is convulsed by a series of... Read More about "This is a dystopia": Sen. Chris Murphy rebukes mistakes being met by gunfire

Connecticut’s U.S. senators are seeking heightened scrutiny of Justice Clarence Thomas’ undisclosed gifts and deals, raising concerns about the lack of ethical guidelines and transparency surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court. In the weeks since ProPublica’s report about Thomas accepting luxury gifts and trips from a GOP... Read More about CT senators push for ethics code amid Justice Thomas controversy

U.S. senators hold one of the most influential positions in the country, with the power to shape policy and confirm nominations that may remake the judicial and executive branches. But that authority only goes so far. Not every issue can be easily solved through legislative means, and some challenges are so nebulous that they must first be... Read More about This Democratic Senator Is Making an Unusual Enemy

WILLIMANTIC - Speaking during a town hall event at Eastern Connecticut State University Wednesday evening, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he met a woman in Naugatuck who was struggling with basic living expenses, despite earning more than minimum wage. He said the woman, who he met during his "Walk Across Connecticut," constantly had... Read More about Murphy holds town hall event to talk difficult housing market

WINSTED – Thanks to a federal grant, the town can start seriously thinking about building a new public works garage. Town Manager Joshua S. Kelly said the town will receive $2.53 million, or 55%, of the projected $4.6 million total cost, including planning and construction, for the garage. This is the "maximum allowable allocation from the... Read More about Federal money boosts Winsted garage plan

When Sen. Chris Murphy watched the video "A.I. Dilemma," he saw a familiar face. Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist well-known among lawmakers for ringing the alarm about the harmful effects of social networks, was now arguing that artificial intelligence represents a potentially catastrophic advance - riskier perhaps to human survival than... Read More about WASHINGTON VOWS TO TACKLE AI, AS TECH TITANS AND CRITICS DESCEND

Late one Sunday evening in March, Connecticut's junior U.S. Senator, Chris Murphy, took to Twitter to raise the alarm over one of the Internet's most buzzed-about artificial intelligence programs, ChatGPT.  In a tweet that quickly became the subject of ridicule from the tech world, Murphy claimed that the... Read More about How concerned is Sen. Chris Murphy about Chat GPT's and AI?

The state's Congressional delegation will introduce a resolution to honor the national champion UConn men's basketball team.  U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy along with U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, John B. Larson, Jim Himes, and Jahana Hayes announced the plan for the resolution Friday. The Huskies... Read More about Connecticut Congressional delegation introducing resolution to honor UConn men's basketball team

Oxford Performance Materials in South Windsor has sent more than 150 3D-printed surgical implants to hospitals in Ukraine since September 2022. The company has partnered with Orthopedic Help for Ukraine to provide the parts pro-bono to victims of Russian violence. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) praised Oxford Performance Materials for... Read More about CONNECTICUT COMPANY PROVIDES 3D-PRINTED SURGICAL IMPLANTS TO UKRAINE

As Connecticut legislators and the Federal Trade Commission both consider limiting non-compete clauses, workers are sharing their stories about these agreements, which can establish restrictions on where and when they can take a new job within their same field. One 32-year-old hair stylist who has worked in Greenwich for 12 years was required to... Read More about CT, FEDS SEEK LIMITS ON NON-COMPETE AGREEMENTS ACROSS INDUSTRIES

MERIDEN - A steady procession of customers made their way through the line and to the counter at V. Czapiga & Son early Wednesday afternoon. Customers arrived either empty-handed or with empty reusable grocery bags and left with armloads of fresh smoked kielbasa, loaves of rye bread, and bottles of horseradish. Nearby, horns honked... Read More about EASTER KIELBASA SALES STAY STRONG AT CZAPIGA AHEAD OF HOLIDAY WEEKEND

In the wake of another deadly school shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut who is at the forefront of gun control legislation in Congress, has again called for action from federal lawmakers that could help reduce the risks of future tragedies involving assault weapons. While Murphy acknowledged during an... Read More about MURPHY SAYS "THERE ARE NOT THE VOTES" TO PASS AN ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN IN CONGRESS