New London- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 candidate for president and former mayor of South Bend, Ind., visited the city Wednesday to highlight a recently announced $158 million federal grant for repairs to the northbound span of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge. The work will involve structural repairs that increase how... Read More about Buttigieg visits Gold Star Memorial Bridge

STAMFORD, CT — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) late last month announced the inclusion of more than $236 million in the fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate. The bill, once passed by the U.S. House of Representatives... Read More about Stamford Receives Funds For Projects From Omnibus Appropriations Bill

Connecticut will get more than $236 million in the fiscal year 2023 after President Biden signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023″ on Thursday. In Connecticut funding will go to 99 congressionally directed spending projects requested by Connecticut’s Democratic Senators, Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal. Of... Read More about YWCA Greenwich Sexual Assault Services Program Space to Be Funded by Federal Government

President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill named for a missing Waterbury man that is meant to make searches for lost loved ones more effective for families and law enforcement agencies. "Billy's Law," officially the Help Find the Missing Act, is named for William Smolinski Jr., who was 31 years old when he went missing from his home on Aug. 24, 2004.... Read More about Biden signs law inspired by family's two-decades search for missing Waterbury man

CONNECTICUT, USA — Families can resume hope for their missing loved ones after President Joe Biden signed into law the "Help Find the Missing Act" also known as Billy's Law on Tuesday. The legislation streamlines the missing persons reporting process by ensuring that law enforcement databases are more accessible and... Read More about The long-awaited ‘Billy’s Law’ gets Biden’s signature

Towns and cities across Connecticut are set to see a major windfall from the $1.7 trillion bill to fund the federal government, thanks to the practice formerly known as earmarking where lawmakers secure large pots of money to benefit their state and districts. More than 170 projects were approved for Connecticut and tucked into the federal funding... Read More about CT to secure $236 million windfall from federal spending bill

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy introduced legislation on Tuesday that aims to promote gender equity in college and K-12 sports The bill, known as "Fair Play for Women Act," is focused on fairness and equity in participation opportunities and institutional support for women's and girls' sports programs to ensure transparency and public reporting of... Read More about Chris Murphy introduces bill to strengthen Title IX, promote gender equity in sports

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting where a gunman killed 20 children and six teachers, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., started pushing for major reforms to curb the cycle of gun violence disrupting daily life throughout the U.S.   While progress was slow over the past decade due to a gridlocked Congress, the work of... Read More about Q&A with Sen. Chris Murphy on Sandy Hook, future of gun reforms

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors. The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom. Instead, the families of the 20 students... Read More about A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows

Connecticut’s United States senators and representatives held a news conference in Washington, D.C. this morning to mark 10 years since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and people who have lost loved ones spoke, sharing their stories and calling for an end to gun violence. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and... Read More about CT's U.S. Senators, Congressmembers Hold News Conference to Honor Victims of Gun Violence

Communities across the country are hoping to get a piece of the $3 billion set aside in recent federal legislation for projects that will protect coasts and shoreline communities. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy from Connecticut is giving federal authorities some early feedback.In a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Murphy shared... Read More about Connecticut Sen. Murphy wants more time, resources for $3 billion effort to protect coasts

Senator Chris Murphy is one of the most outspoken lawmakers for the rights of college athletes, harshly criticizing the NCAA for policies that he describes as taking advantage of players. He co-authored name, image and likeness (NIL) legislation that he feels is vital to the future of college sports. Senator Murphy joins hosts Michael Barr, Scarlet... Read More about Senator Chris Murphy on NIL

On Oct. 31, Sen. Chris Murphy sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Murphy is a Democrat from Connecticut who sits on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, and he had some questions about Twitter, specifically about the Saudi stake in Twitter. The Kingdom Holding Co. and the private office of Prince Al Waleed bin Talal owned Twitter... Read More about A Senator Thinks Elon Musk’s Foreign Entanglements Are a Problem

Sen. CHRIS MURPHY (D-Conn.) would back a congressional investigation into Saudi Arabia’s stake in Twitter if a government review body doesn’t open a probe first.Murphy placed himself at the middle of this firestorm on Halloween by tweeting that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, should start a probe. “We should be... Read More about Sen. Murphy: If CFIUS won’t review Saudi’s Twitter stake, Congress should

U.S. officials are weighing whether to open a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter as new details emerge about the privileges granted to large foreign investors under the terms of the deal, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.A person familiar with the developments said Wednesday that the Treasury... Read More about U.S. exploring whether it has authority to review Musk’s Twitter deal

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday raised concerns about the “potential influence” the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would have on Twitter’s operations after the Saudis and Qatar contributed financing to help Elon Musk complete his purchase of the social media company.Prince Alwaleed bin Talal agreed to roll over $1.9 billion worth of Twitter shares... Read More about Democratic Senator Concerned Over Saudi Financing In Musk's Twitter Deal

Musk, Twitter meet Chris MurphySen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), one of the most respected foreign policy voices on the Hill, is calling for federal agencies – specifically the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – to investigate Twitter’s new ownership structure.Twitter, of course, was recently purchased by mega-billionaire Elon... Read More about NEWS: The timeline for House leadership elections

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Murphy on Monday called for an immediate investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's stake in Twitter after Elon Musk took over the social media company.Murphy, D-Conn., who leads a key Foreign Relations subcommittee, sent a letter to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known... Read More about Democratic senator calls for probe of Saudi Arabia's stake in Twitter after Musk takeover

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For millions of Americans—especially those who don’t live in the high-income urban mega-economies—it feels like life itself is unspooling.This sense of dislocation is what Donald Trump’s politics of grievance seized upon when he launched his campaign for the presidency in 2015. He offered easy scapegoats—immigrants, Muslims, and economic elites—to... Read More about The Wreckage of Neoliberalism