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Danbury to get assistance to house 15 more homeless vets
August 31, 2010From the Danbury News Times:
“For the first time, Danbury will receive 15 federal housing vouchers to take homeless veterans off the streets, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy announced Monday.
“We make a promise to our soldiers when we ask them to fight for our country,” Murphy said. “… And then we don’t live up to it. We need to take care of our veterans when they return home.”
New Britain Herald: Murphy hosts education summit
August 27, 2010The New Britain Heard covered an education summit hosted and moderated by Chris earlier this week. Here’s an excerpt:
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, hosted the conference, and acted as moderator. The topic: “Keeping Connecticut students in school and out of the criminal justice system.” The conference stimulated discussion on how school discipline policies can affect student success and how some schools can create safe and healthy classroom environments.
New Britain Herald: 41 towns in 41 days for Murphy campaign
August 04, 2010 The New Britain Herald covered the kick-off of the campaign's 41 Towns in 41 Days Tour. Here's an excerpt:"Over the last few years, Murphy has knocked on thousands of doors in Connecticut to learn what’s on the minds of state residents, later turning constituent ideas into legislation. Throughout this year’s door-knocking tour, Murphy said he will be listening and asking people to sign on as 'citizen co-sponsors' to his Buy American efforts.
Julie Kushner, regional United Auto Works director, said Ansonia Brass & Copper has been told by the U.S. Navy to compete with a German company for a contract to manufacture a key part for Electric Boat.
'This is just wrong,' she said. 'Not only is this not going to create jobs, we’re going to lose jobs in this district if they get away with it.'"
Hartford Courant - Murphy Weighs In On Budget
December 16, 2009Congressman Criticizes Rell’s Plan To Cut Stem Cell Funding
U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy waded into a state budget dispute Tuesday, urging Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislative leaders to reject a proposal to eliminate $10 million in stem cell research funding for 2010. As a state senator, Murphy helped lead the effort in 2005 to commit the state to funding $100 million in stem cell research over 10 years.
Torrington Register Citizen: House passes bill that includes funds for Torrington
December 11, 2009TORRINGTON – By a steady margin, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that is slated to give Torrington $750,000 to fix up its downtown five-way intersection.
This grant is expected to be the first round of major funding for the city’s Municipal Development Plan, a $17.7 million project to revitalize the Torrington downtown. The $750,000 would go towards the city’s Main Street Realignment Project – specifically the five-way intersection on Route 202 between Main Street, East Main Street, South Main Street, Water Street and Franklin Street.
Waterbury Republican-American: Grants will go to Waterbury development
December 11, 2009WATERBURY – The city will receive $3.2 million for six economic development projects as part of an appropriations bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday.
The bill, which passed the House by a vote of 221-202, is expected to go to the Senate for approval within the next few days The money, secured with the help of Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, D-5th District, includes:
USA Today: Bill aims to help locate missing persons
December 10, 2009Day and night, Margarite Owens recites a single question over and over, and no one is able to give her an answer. Where is her father?
Owens, 52, of Holly Bluff, Miss., has carried that frustrating question with her for more than two years since her 78-year-old father, Jessie Edwards, disappeared.
“You don’t just disappear off the face of the Earth in a small town like Holly Bluff,” Owens said. “Someone knows something.”
A measure working its way through Congress seeks to help people such as Owens by improving the way state and federal officials track the missing and keep family members informed.
“Billy’s Law,” sponsored by Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and named after Billy Smolinski, a 31-year-old man who disappeared in Waterbury, Conn., in 2004, would combine two Justice Department databases of missing people and unidentified remains, Murphy said.
New Britain Herald: Murphy delivers food donations in New Britain
November 26, 2009NEW BRITAIN – The line outside the Spanish Speaking Center Wednesday stretched all the way from the front door to the sidewalk on Cedar Street.
Mary Sanders said she expected around 100 people, but closer to 150 were waiting for food. Most had met basic poverty level guidelines.
Sanders, executive director of the center, said Friday afternoon her cupboards were bare. “People in New Britain are really having a hard time,” she said. “We have a high unemployment rate. A lot of people are struggling.”
Meriden Record Journal: Local health centers anticipate more patients if bill's passed
November 11, 2009MERIDEN – If the landmark health care reform passed by the House finds its way to the desk of President Barack Obama, health centers like Meriden’s Community Health Center are going to be even busier.
“It certainly benefits the Community Health Center in that it will help those we see who don’t have coverage,” said Mark Masselli, president of Community Health Centers Inc., which runs health centers throughout the state, serving about 75,000 Connecticut residents, mostly the uninsured or underinsured.
U.S. Rep. Christopher S. Murphy, D-5th District, visited the center Tuesday to discuss Saturday’s passage of the bill in the House and its implications for Connecticut.
New Britain Herald Editorial: Health care reform for everyone, even Congress
November 07, 2009U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, has filed an amendment to the health care reform bill currently before the House of Representatives that would require members of Congress who take federal health care coverage to purchase their insurance in the proposed health insurance exchange.
Waterbury Republican-American: Downtown post office rally held
November 03, 2009Rep. Murphy aims to keep city landmark open
WATERBURY – A top U.S. Postal Service official assured U.S Rep. Christopher Murphy that the city’s downtown post office isn’t on the chopping block, but Waterbury’s governmental representatives at all levels are dubious.
Murphy, D-5th District, held a small rally for the downtown branch Monday, just across Grand Street at the John Bale Book Co. He was flanked by about a dozen downtown business owners and local politicians.
Vote for Murphy
November 01, 2008Elect Chris Murphy so he can continue the great things he has done for us.
Chris has lowered drug costs, helped the middle class and small
businesses by lowering taxes, created tough new ethics requirements
for Congress, and worked to bring our troops home from Iraq since
becoming our congressman.
Murphy helping to grow jobs
October 31, 2008It’s these types of ideas, and follow-through, that will help the
Danbury area’s economy. And we need Chris Murphy in Washington to
guide innovation to our backyard.
Newtown Bee - For Congress
October 31, 2008Mr. Murphy is still running as more of a pragmatist than partisan. He was among a group of Congressmen and women who pushed for a compromise on offshore drilling while also working to extend Amtrak rail service in the Northeast, addressing both the future and the present of the region’s energy woes.
Cheshire Herald - U.S. Congress -5th District
October 31, 2008Chris Murphy became interested in politics while still in high school, and he has moved full steam ahead ever since. Over the course of his political career he has challenged two longtime incumbents and won their seats, earning the respect of his constituents and his peers.
Chris Murphy supports the troops
October 30, 2008Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional Representative Chris Murphy receives high marks from veterans groups. Why? The answer is his clear voting record on critical issues from equipment for our troops to funding medical care for our wounded heros. Chris Murphy championed the new G.I. Bill which provides funding so that those who have served us so well can go on to earn a college degree.
Christopher Murphy has earned re-election
October 29, 2008DANBURY NEWS TIMES
editorial
Sorting through the records of Murphy and Cappiello, it is Murphy who is the better choice. Murphy has done a good job in his first two years in Congress and has earned re-election.
Right Choice
October 28, 2008During times of economic uncertainty, we need Murphy working to protect Social Security and to put in place common sense regulations to stop Wall Street schemes. Let’s re-elect Chris Murphy on November 4.
Chris Murphy 2008
October 26, 2008An amenable relationship between Murphy and area voters has been strengthened during his two years in Congress thus far. It’s not surprising to see him on a regular basis at all manner of local events and in the mainstream of everyday Connecticut residents’ lives. His calm, thoughtful and sincere nature rings true with his constituency. Without reservation, and with a good measure of well-placed confidence, we endorse Democrat incumbent Chris Murphy for another term in Congress.
We endorse Chris Murphy
October 25, 2008As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, Mr. Murphy backed the credit card bill of rights and legislation to help homeowners refinance and thus keep their homes. We endorse Chris Murphy.
Murphy for Congress
October 24, 2008Unseating long-serving and well-respected incumbent Nancy Johnson two years ago was no small task, and voters did not capriciously entrust the job to the then-young and earnest state senator from Southington, Chris Murphy.
So far, Washington, D.C., does not appear to have tainted the qualities voters liked in Chris Murphy. Congressman Murphy is still young, still earnest, and brings a refreshing, perhaps generational, difference in approach to the job.
Murphy deserves another two years as the 5th District’s representative in the U.S. Congress.
Return Incumbents To The House
October 23, 2008When talks between the state and Amtrak lagged over the expansion of commuter rail service on the New Haven Hartford Springfield line, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy intervened and got the ball rolling. In doing so, Mr. Murphy, a Democrat from Cheshire and a one-term incumbent, showed that he understood the importance of energy conservation to the nation’s future.
Re-elect Chris Murphy
October 22, 2008Murphy has even had a “mavericky” moment of his own. He told this newspaper, “I don’t think there would have been an outside ethics panel that now has the power to investigate members of Congress if I hadn’t advocated for it. I led a mini-rebellion of freshmen congressmen to require defense contractors to publicly disclose their profits,” an action that will rein in such companies as Blackwater Security.
Murphy helped protect taxpayers
October 21, 2008I have been very confused and concerned about the economic bailout.
In the beginning, it seemed like the president was forcing us to hand
over $700 billion to corporate executives and bail them out of their
bad investments — which no one wants to do without some measure of
assurance that preventive controls will be put in place for the
future.
But Congress stepped up, and made major changes to the president’s
three-page plan. Chris Murphy has been a part of that process, working
hard to protect our interests in this fight — our jobs and our
retirement funds.
Heating Assistance
October 21, 2008Your article on the energy assistance forum at the Senior Center last week (R-J, 10/18) was very informative. I was particularly pleased to see that our Congressman, Chris Murphy, was involved in increasing the federal money available here in Connecticut for home heating assistance.
