WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, joined U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Vice Chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Friday led a group of Democratic senators in urging U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to postpone any trade negotiations with Brazil until President Jair Bolsonaro fully enforces his country's environmental laws and regulations to protect the Amazon from continued illegal deforestation. In the letter, the senators also ca  more

VERNON, Connecticut, Sept. 5 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on the Trump administration's decision to transfer $3.6 billion from military construction funds to pay for the border wall: "This Administration's decision to transfer Fiscal Year 2019 Department of Defense funds that were appropriated on a bipartisan basis away from U.S. military construction projects undermines the operational capability of our armed forces to the detriment of those volunteers wh  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement on the Trump administration's plan to divert $3.6 billion from 127 military projects to build a wall at the southern border: "Diverting $3.6 billion from military projects in the United States and abroad is reckless and irresponsible. "It puts our national security and our men and women in uniform at risk. "Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have warned that a border wall would be a waste  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: * * * - State Will Receive $17 million to Combat Epidemic * * * The Connecticut Congressional Delegation today announced two new federal grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) worth a total of $17 million to support Connecticut's work to combat the opioid epidemic by expanding access to treatment and supporting near real-time data on the drug overdose crisi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, issued the following statement after Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, doubled down on delaying the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement: "Easy for San Francisco elitists to say, but try telling that to hurting Nebraska farmers and ranchers. "They're the best in the world, but they desperately need export markets in both North America and Asia. "The problem with China is mainly the intellectual property theft and bad behavior of the Chinese Commun  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Sens. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following op-ed to outline the steps for Congressional action to combat climate change in the wake of fires sweeping across the Amazon rainforests, which was provided to NBC News online: As appropriators, the senators made clear that where the Trump administration and the government of Brazil won't act, Congress will. Excerpts from the op-ed ar  more