Christopher Murphy

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Social Services & Welfare 2 Government Operations & Budget 1 Healthcare 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 1), CT current Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 3, 2031	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 1), CT Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2025	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 1), CT Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2019	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, CT-5 Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 5, 2011	Jan 3, 2013	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, CT-5 Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2011	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, CT-5 Connecticut	Democratic	Jan 4, 2007	Jan 3, 2009	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Europe and Regional Security Cooperation — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Employment and Workplace Safety unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions — Primary Health and Retirement Security unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.289, social dim. -0.259. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive Section 302(F) of the CBA Re: Amdt. No. 2696	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Decision of Chair Sustained	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Does the Decision of the Chair Stand as the judgment of the Senate that amdt. no. 2360 does not violate section 313(b)(1)(E) of the CBA?	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Decision of Chair Sustained	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 28, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 59 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not…	Yea	Jun 27, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kenneth Kies, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	Nay	Jun 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kenneth Kies to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	Nay	Jun 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Paul Dabbar, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Nay	Jun 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Paul Dabbar to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Nay	Jun 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Daniel Zimmerman, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense	Nay	Jun 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Daniel Zimmerman to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense	Not voting	Jun 23, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Rodney Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security	Nay	Jun 18, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Olivia Trusty, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment)	Nay	Jun 18, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Rodney Scott to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security	Nay	Jun 18, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1582 — GENIUS Act	Nay	Jun 17, 2025	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Olivia Trusty, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission	Nay	Jun 17, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Gary Andres, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services	Nay	Jun 17, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,005 recorded contributions totalling $4,582,368. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 590 of 1005 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	555	$2,234,154	49%
Corporate PAC	28	$672,786	15%
Party	2	$44,800	1%
Super PAC	5	$170	0%
Unclassified	415	$1,630,459	36%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$117,500	CONNECTICUT SENATE VICTORY 2024	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Oct 16, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$44,401	PA-CT SENATE VICTORY	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jun 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$39,771	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jan 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$38,705	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Apr 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$34,175	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Oct 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$34,100	CHRIS MURPHY VICTORY FUND	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Party	Mar 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$32,754	BLUE SENATE 2024	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jun 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$32,513	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jun 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$27,205	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Mar 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$22,700	MAJORITY 2024	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jun 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$21,178	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Sep 29, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$20,169	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Aug 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,448	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jul 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$18,505	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Nov 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$18,408	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT LLC	FRIENDS OF CHRIS MURPHY	Corporate PAC	Jun 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.