Christopher Murphy
Democrat · CT · U.S. Senate
Bio
Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 2007 to 2013 in the United States House of Representatives, representing Connecticut's 5th congressional district.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 13.6y
- First took office
- 2007 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 28 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Senate Democratic Conference Deputy Secretary · 2025–present
- Hartford, CT · 860-549-8463
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $563k – $1.2M
- Liabilities
- $1.3M – $5.5M
- Net worth
- −$4.9M – −$5k
- Since 2018
- −$1.8M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Christopher Murphy's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Christopher Murphy (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Murphysits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Murphy's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
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