BOSTON — On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will provide $50 million dollars for Environmental Justice (EJ) initiatives through funds allocated to EPA under the American Rescue Plan (ARP). The City of Hartford's Department of Health and Human Services will be receiving $200,000 under this initiative... Read More

Treating firearm-related injuries in the U.S. costs more than $1 billion annually, with public health programs like Medicaid picking up most of the tab, according to new Government Accountability Office estimates shared with POLITICO.The assessment was requested by House and Senate Democrats last year and comes as the Biden administration is... Read More

HARTFORD, Conn. — U.S. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy met with Connecticut’s Ukrainian community Monday morning at the Ukrainian National Home in Hartford following his trip to Eastern Europe two weeks ago.Senator Murphy is a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and said the goal of the trip was to reaffirm U.S. commitment to... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senator Christopher S. Murphy concedes that political rhetoric in the nation’s capital can sometimes stray into hysteria, but when it comes to the precarious state of American democracy, he insisted he was not exaggerating the nation’s tilt toward authoritarianism.“Democrats are always at risk of being hyperbolic,” said Mr. Murphy,... Read More

WASHINGTON - After years of failed attempts to pass a firearms background check bill, two senators think they may be on the verge of a deal - or at least, that hope isn't lost yet.Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have been quietly negotiating a way to bolster background check rules by making a small but consequential tweak to... Read More

The first bipartisan call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been issued by Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy and Republican Sen. Todd Young."Israel has the right to defend itself from Hamas's rocket attacks, in a manner proportionate with the threat its citizens are facing. As a result of Hamas's rocket attacks and Israel’s response, both sides... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday that talks aimed at closing loopholes in the gun buyer background check system failed because Texas Sen. John Cornyn wouldn't budge enough on sharpening the definition of commercial gun seller.Cornyn and Murphy, D-Conn., declared Wednesday they had hit an impasse and had abandoned talks that began about two months... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), introduced a new bill Thursday that would define scholarship college athletes as employees of their universities, thereby granting them the right to collectively bargain.For Murphy, the bill is the latest in a series of initiatives to improve conditions for college athletes — an... Read More

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy made it in the airport in time Tuesday - not to catch a plane, but to push for action against tyranny abroad.The airport in question is in Vilnius, Lithuania.There, Murphy and two other senators joined an exiled Belarussian opposition leader, Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, for a press conference to call attention to... Read More

What does the pandemic have to do with broadband? When workers and students were forced to work from home, many people ran into internet connectivity issues.But the issues are beyond that according to experts who met with lawmakers Friday to highlight the issue. Leaders say the pandemic has opened everyone's eyes to the issue of access to... Read More

HARTFORD, Conn. - Getting ghost guns off the streets is among efforts under federal legislation that is making its way around capitol hill.U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy say the Untraceable Firearms Act is a key to strengthening gun laws.The legislation would permanently include the core building blocks of ghost guns in the... Read More

WASHINGTON - After a recent swing through Oman, Jordan and Qatar, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said he sees the "grassroots of de-escalation" emerging in the civil war in Yemen, a deadly crisis for which the Connecticut Democrat has long advocated for a peaceful solution.On a call with reporters after his return, Murphy, who leads the Senate Foreign... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), called on Israel and the Palestinians to de-escalate ongoing violence, days after returning from a trip to the Middle East."Israeli and Palestinian leaders need to commit to a path of de-escalation," Murphy told reporters Monday, addressing the rising violence in Jerusalem, which has included scuffles between Palestinians... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday called for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthis to answer a ceasefire proposal to end the fighting against government forces in the country.The call is part of efforts to end the six-year civil war in Yemen and relieve the catastrophic human suffering by the civilian population. Murphy made his remarks in a briefing... Read More

AMMAN — US Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, departed Jordan on Wednesday after a trip to the region, according to a statement from the senator’s office. The trip included meetings with foreign leaders and senior officials... Read More

The leading proponent of gun control in the U.S. Senate only could bring condolences to the mother of the three-year-old boy shot to death two weeks ago. Sen. Chris Murphy met with Solmary Cruz, the mother of the slain toddler, Randell Jones, in a private meeting arranged by the Rev. Henry Brown, an activist who once heckled Murphy as... Read More

The leading proponent of gun control in the U.S. Senate only could bring condolences to the mother of the three-year-old boy shot to death two weeks ago. Sen. Chris Murphy met with Solmary Cruz, the mother of the slain toddler, Randell Jones, in a private meeting arranged by the Rev. Henry Brown, an activist who once heckled Murphy as... Read More

The worst day of Chris Murphy’s career, as he tells it, came eight years ago this week. That’s when the Senate defeated a gun control bill forged after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his state. The mass shootings haven’t stopped plaguing America ever since. Nor has Congress ceased its perpetual stalemate on... Read More

Chris Murphy has tried to find the right words. After a gunman killed 20 children and six educators in a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in 2012, the senator spoke with families of the victims, people whom he now calls friends. He wanted to understand, in whatever way he could, the effects of an American epidemic that he sees as his... Read More

Connecticut's leaders on Capitol Hill were the latest to join an initiative advocating for background checks. Road Trip for Background Checks concluded Thursday after volunteers traveled across 23 states over the last 10 days calling on senators to pass background check legislation. U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal discussed... Read More