WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Thursday questioned Linda McMahon at a hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Education. Murphy pressed McMahon on how a Trump administration executive order restricting federal funding for DEI programs will impact... Read More about Murphy To McMahon: You’re Saying It's A Possibility That A Public School With Programming Related to Race Could Lose Federal Funding

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and U.S. Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.-01), Joe Courtney (D-Conn.-02), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.-03), Jim Himes (D-Conn.-04), and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.-05) sent a letter urging... Read More about Murphy, Connecticut Delegation Call On Acting HHS Secretary To Address Impact Of Trump Funding Chaos On Community Health Centers

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday reintroduced legislation to promote gender equity in college and K-12 sports. The Fair Play for Women Act would promote fairness in participation opportunities and institutional support for women's and girls'... Read More about Murphy, Adams Reintroduce Bicameral Legislation To Promote Gender Equity In Sports

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced bicameral legislation aimed at reducing gun violence by preventing the theft of firearms from federally-licensed gun dealers (FFLs). The Safety Enhancements for Communities Using Reasonable and Effective (SECURE) Firearm Storage Act would address the problem... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues Introduce SECURE Firearm Storage Act To Reduce Gun Violence From Stolen Firearms

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday joined ABC’s This Week with Martha Raddatz to sound the alarm on Donald Trump’s corrupt power grab and the billionaire takeover of the U.S. government. Murphy slammed Trump’s move to eliminate USAID and vowed to keep fighting to protect American democracy. “I think this is the most serious... Read More about Murphy On ABC's This Week: This Is A Red Alert Moment— Our Democracy Is At Risk

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with 25 of their Senate colleagues, sent a letter urging U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins to take immediate actions to secure veterans’ personal information provided by VA or other agencies to Elon Musk and his “Department of... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Call On VA Secretary To Step Up And Defend Veterans’ Private Information From Elon Musk

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined their Senate colleagues in introducing the Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act to prevent companies from using algorithms to collude to set higher prices. As recent reporting, a... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues Introduce Antitrust Legislation To Take On Algorithmic Price Fixing, Bring Down Costs

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Thursday joined U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and 15 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, legislation that would reverse the Trump... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation to Eliminate Trump’s Outsourcing Tax Breaks

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), joined 37 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Right to Contraception Act, legislation that would create a statutory right to obtain and use contraceptives. The bill would... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, 37 Colleagues Reintroduce Right To Contraception Act

HARTFORD—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), on Thursday joined their colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth calling for an investigation into whether landlords may be using property management software company RealPage’s services to price gouge military families. The U.S.... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Call For Investigation Into RealPage Algorithm Potentially Hiking Rents For Military Families, Siphoning Money From U.S. Military

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), on Wednesday introduced two coordinated pieces of legislation to create a long-term solution for management of Plum Island and to protect the island in perpetuity. The Plum Island... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Schumer, Gillibrand Introduce Legislation To Manage & Preserve Plum Island

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, on Tuesday joined Democratic members of Congress outside the U.S. Treasury Department to call out Elon Musk’s alleged illegal takeover of the Treasury’s payment systems. Murphy blasted Musk for conspiring with Donald Trump and his billionaire... Read More about Murphy At Treasury: The Senate Should Not Vote For A Single Nominee That Will Participate In This Fraud

WASHINGTON–U.S Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 35 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing their deep concern regarding the growing chaos and dysfunction at the U.S. Department of State and the Trump... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, 35 Colleagues Raise Alarm Over Trump Administration Chaos At Critical National Security Agencies

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and 14 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Keep Our Promise to America’s Children and Teachers (PACT) Act, legislation to put... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues Introduce Keep Our Pact Act To Fully Fund Title I, Special Education

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in reintroducing the Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting Economic Resilience (WEATHER) Act, legislation that calls for the... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal Reintroduce WEATHER Act To Protect Connecticut's Farmers Against Extreme Weather

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Monday joined a press conference in front of the shuttered United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to raise the alarm about how President Trump’s decision - at the behest of Elon Musk - to illegally shut down the agency... Read More about Murphy At USAID: Trump And Musk Are Shuttering Agencies To Turn Government Over To Billionaires

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Sunday joined Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and his Democratic colleagues on the Committee in sending a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring that any effort to merge USAID into the State Department requires... Read More about Murphy, Foreign Relations Committee Democrats To Secretary Rubio: Any Effort To Merge USAID Into The State Department Requires Congressional Approval, And Unauthorized Access Of USAID Classified Data Compromises Our National Security

HARTFORD—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.-01), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.-03), Jim Himes (D-Conn.-04), and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn-05), on Monday wrote a letter to President Donald Trump urging the immediate reversal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Hayes, DeLauro, Larson, Himes Urge Immediate Reversal Of EPA's Illegal Efforts To Withold Toxic Clean Up Funding From Naugatuck Valley

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and U.S. Representative Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) introduced the Stop Sports Blackouts Act, legislation that would make cable companies refund customers who aren’t able to watch the channels they already pay for during television blackouts. For over four weeks, due to a dispute between Optimum and MSG Network,... Read More about After Weeks Of Paying For Knicks Games And Episodes Of Judy Justice Without Being Able To Watch, Murphy, Ryan Introduce The "Stop Sports Blackouts Act" To Force Cable Companies To Refund Customers For TV Blackouts

HARTFORD—U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 17 of their Senate colleagues in releasing the following statement on the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) rescission of a policy that allowed service members to get reimbursed... Read More about Murphy, Blumenthal, Colleagues Condemn DoD Decision To End Policy Allowing U.S. Service Members To Access Non-Covered Reproductive Health Care Services