WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas), today introduced the Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act. The legislation would prohibit the sale of poppy seeds that contain a harmful level of opiates and require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue regulations that establish a maximum level of contamination. Congressman Steve  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: East Hartford, CT - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) released the following statement after three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont over the weekend, including Trinity College student Tahseen Ali Ahmad. "Our hearts go out to the three Palestinian students who were shot this weekend in Vermont: Trinity College student Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Hisham Awartani," said Larson. "  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, on Sunday joined CNN's State of the Union to discuss the Israel-Hamas hostage agreement and the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. Murphy highlighted President Biden's role in securing the release of at least 50 Israeli hostages: "Let'  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Chairman of the U.S. Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Thursday released the following statement on reporting about the Coast Guard's 2015 "Culture of Respect" study, which details a culture of racism, hazing, discrimination, and sexual assault across the agency and was kept from the public. "I am in disbelief that we are once again having a   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and U.S. Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.-04) announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a project in Bridgeport to receive $47,528,246 from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to accelerate clean energy manufacturing in Connecticut. The grant will help fund the construction of Nanoramic Laboratories  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: U.S Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on Wednesday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor about the urgent need for Congress to take action to address the worsening child care crisis. "When you are living on a more modest salary, not a poverty wage, but just a modest, lower- to middle-income salary, your entire world could fall apa  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Today, the second American citizen, Liat Beinin, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, has been released after being kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the attack on October 7. Liat's family lives in Waterford and are active members of eastern Connecticut's Jewish community. "My Beinin family from Israel spent five days in eastern Connecticut with us this August. We grew very close to them as they walked with  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement following a joint statement from Lloyd J. Austin, U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Honourable Richard Marles MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defense, Australia, and the Right Honourable Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, on action steps on the trilateral AUKUS security mission. "Today's meeting between U.S  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following statement: Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02) issued the following statement after Kibbutz Nir Oz announced that Aviv Atzili, husband of Liat Beinin, was killed in the October 7 attack on Israel. "Today's news that Liat Beinin's husband, Aviv Atzili, was killed by Hamas attackers at the Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 is heartbreaking and infuriating. The willful inability of Hamas to account for its despicable ass  more