WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine senior Senate Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the Biden administration Friday to withhold part of the United States’ annual military aid to Egypt for a third consecutive year, calling it important to keep up the pressure on President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on human rights abuses. More than... Read More

Congress is looking to ramp up the pressure on the Coast Guard and get more clarity about why an extensive investigation into decades of sexual assault allegations at its New London academy went unreported for years. One proposal by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., would demand further accountability and apply new disclosure standards to Congress... Read More

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Massachusetts Rep. Lori Trahan relaunched their legislation to aid college student-athletes in their name, image and likeness endeavors by widening the opportunities available. The College Athlete Economic Freedom Act was announced Wednesday morning. The bill includes provisions to allow international... Read More

There must be a Barbie version of Chris Murphy somewhere. The U.S. senator is suddenly getting nearly as much media attention as the plastic doll that’s saving Hollywood. The only thing they share in common is a knack for provoking right-wingers. Temporary overexposure tends to happen when a senator is making the rounds... Read More

DANBURY — Racial tension between management and staff at the federal prison has given the low-security correctional facility for 1,000 men and women the nickname “Klansbury,” staff told a special team of investigators last month during a fact-finding tour. Investigators from the federal Bureau of Prisons heard... Read More

The U.S. is experiencing a loneliness epidemic — and at least one politician is trying to do something about it. On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., introduced legislation to create a national policy to promote social connection and address soaring rates of loneliness. The National Strategy for Social Connection Act aims to... Read More

Non-compete agreements in job contracts are reducing health care access and affordability, a group of physicians, surgeons and lawyers told U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., at a roundtable conversation in New Britain Tuesday. In Connecticut, two major health systems — Hartford HealthCare and Yale New Haven Health — own most of... Read More

FAIRFIELD — The housing shortage and subsequent market prices in Fairfield County took the fore at Sen. Chris Murphy's town hall meeting at Sacred Heart University Monday. About 70 people filed into the university's Martire Center for Liberal Arts Hall to share personal experiences with housing issues, including homelessness, the lack of... Read More

For years, Sen. Chris Murphy has introduced federal legislation that would limit the use of restraint and seclusion in schools, and for years the proposals have fallen far short of passage. Yet, Murphy says he sees progress on the issue. When he introduced the latest version of the Keeping All Students Safe Act this spring, he had several... Read More

Political polarization is not our country’s most important problem. I’d rank right-wing extremism ahead of it. But extremism and polarization go hand in hand. Democracy is challenged when Americans have trouble understanding and communicating with each other. The untoward meanness out there (see: any social media site) and the... Read More

Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators both welcome efforts to push the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a code of ethics amid more reports of lapses by Supreme Court justices. The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to vote this week doing just that and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the committee, said the most recent reports just... Read More

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has accused leaders at the Coast Guard of a coverup after a damning report this month found dozens of mishandled sex assault cases at the academy in New London. The secret internal investigation uncovered over 60 reports of rape and harassment at the Coast Guard Academy from 1988 through 2006 that were kept... Read More

Sen. Chris Murphy has recently become vocal about what he calls an “epidemic of loneliness” in America. Murphy addressed the issue before the U.S. Senate last month and most recently on Wednesday’s episode of Connecticut Public Radio’s The Colin McEnroe Show. Murphy discussed the possible causes of America’s... Read More

HARTFORD, CT — One Hartford neighborhood badly in need of transportation infrastructure help is getting just that — $19 million worth for a program that aims to improve motorist, pedestriab and bicycle safety. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, announced... Read More

The Senate Judiciary Committee has announced that it’s scheduled a vote on a U.S. Supreme Court ethics legislation later this month. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut welcomes the move. “It makes no sense that every federal judge is bound by a code of ethics except the nine who sit on the highest court in the country,” he... Read More

WOODBURY – U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy spent part of Sunday afternoon touring the town, getting a read on how local businesses are faring in today’s post-COVID economic climates. Murphy began his tour at the Flanders Nature Center and Land Trust, along with First Selectman Barbara Perkinson and state Rep. Karen Reddington-Hughes. From there,... Read More

One year ago, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, marking the first major gun legislation in nearly three decades. The law introduced enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21, closed the "boyfriend loophole" to prevent convicted domestic abusers from purchasing firearms for five years and... Read More

TRUMBULL, CT — Trumbull-based FallCall Solutions has been named U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's "Innovator of the Month" for June. According to a news release, FallCall was founded in 2015 and created by physicians who observed that many older adults who sustained injuries due to falls did not use traditional personal emergency response devices,... Read More

After several high-profile pedestrian deaths in Hartford this year, officials seeking to bolster safety for city bicyclists, walkers and joggers welcomed the announcement of $19 million for safety improvements Friday. “You got to feel safe when you’re walking, biking and transiting through the city,” said U.S. Sen. Chris... Read More

NEW HAVEN, CT — Gov. Ned Lamont, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Sen. Chris Murphy, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker among myriad other local and state officials, announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding the Connecticut Department of Transportation a $25 million grant to help build a new... Read More